| 2022 |
Dr Charisse Burden- Stelly |
Organize, Fight, Win: The Dialectic of Radical Black Organizing and U.S. State Repression |
| 2019 |
Professor Sarah Churchwell (School of Advanced Study, University of London) |
Behold, America: a History of American First and the American Dream |
| 2017 |
Roddy Hart (Singer/Songwriter) |
Roddy Hart: An American Lyric |
| 2016 |
Brad McDonald |
Deep South: A conversation with Chef Brad McDonald |
| 2015 |
David Willis (BBC California Correspondent) |
Hollywood and the American Dream |
| 2014 |
Professor David Blight (Class of 1954 Professor of History, Yale University) and Professor Richard Blackett (Andrew Jackson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University) |
The Fugitive Slave Act and the Coming of the American Civil War |
| 2013 |
Professor Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University) |
Recycling Gilgamesh: Lousiana, Vietnam, Iraq? |
| 2012 |
Professor Alan Brinkley (Columbia University) |
‘The Great Depression, Then and Now |
| 2011 |
Professor Harvey Bryan (Arizona State University), Professor Gary Libecap (University of California at Santa Barbara) and Professor Ian Tyrell (University of New South Wales) |
The American Environment: A conversation |
| 2010 |
Mr Bruce Molsky |
A performance of American traditional and folk |
| 2009 |
Professor Douglas Tallack (University of Leicester) |
The line of history: the Society of Iconophiles and New York City, 1895-1939 |
| 2008 |
Professor Vincent Carretta (University of Maryland) |
Reading Equiano Reading Milton (and others): Poetry in the Service of History |
| 2007 |
Professor Susan Castillo (King’s College London) |
George Washington Cable and the Gothic of the Caribbean |
| 2006 |
Professor Tony Badger (Cambridge University) |
Martin Luther King Jr.: Who Needs Him? |
| 2005 |
Professor Richard King (University of Nottingham) |
Another Country: The Crisis in US Political Culture |
| 2004 |
Professor John Stauffer (Harvard University) |
The Prophetic Vision of James McCune Smith |
| 2003 |
Mr. Marc Pachter (Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC) |
Posing for the Presidency: Style and Substance in Portraits of America’s Leaders |
| 2002 |
Professor William Deverell (University of Southern California) |
History and the City of the Future: Writing the Los Angeles Past |
| 2001 |
Professor Andrew Hook (Emeritus, University of Glasgow) |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda, and the Crack-Up |
