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Levine Lecture Archives

About the Levine Lecture

The Levine Lecture series began in 1991 in recognition of Dr. Emanuel Levine, a member of Rider's History Department for nearly forty years. His specialties were ancient history and archaeology, and he was the sort of professor a student never forgets. He was also a wonderful colleague and a good friend. The Rider University History Department is especially thankful to his wife, Harriet Levine, and his family for making this annual distinguished lecture series possible. Photo courtesy of Riderana (Moore Library).

The Levine Lecture has brought an impressive group of scholars to speak at Rider over the years. These historians are leaders in their fields and the recipients of prestigious prizes and awards for their scholarship including multiple Pulitzer Prize winners. Some of the most influential historians of our time have delivered Levine Lectures.

Date	Name	Topic
2007-08	Stephen Mihm University of Georgia	"A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States"
2006-07	Catherine E. Kelly University of Oklahoma	"Face Value: George Washington, Art, and Early National Political Culture"
2005	William Chester Jordan Princeton University	"The Truth about Sanctuary in the Middle Ages"
2004	Steven Hahn University of Pennsylvania	“Slavery, Freed People, and American Democracy”
2003	Ian Burrow Hunter Research	"What Does the Public Get From Public Archaeology?: New Jersey as a Case Study"
2002	Dorothy Ko Barnard College	"The Artifacts of Chinese Footbinding"
2001	Jerome Handler Virginia Foundation for the Humanities	"Survivors of the Middle Passage: Autobiographical Accounts of Enslaved Africans"
2000	Thomas McGovern Hunter College, CUNY	"'Til Death Take Us or the World End'-The Extinction of Norse Greenland"
1999	Josiah Ober Princeton University	“Trial of Citizen Socrates 399 BC”
1998	Martin Duberman Graduate School of the City University of New York	“Gay and Lesbian History”
1997	Paul Ceruzzi National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution	“History, Technology and the Millennium”
1996	Clement Alexander Price Rutgers University	“Marion Thompson Wright and the Construction of New Jersey Afro-American History”
1995	Robert Darnton Princeton University	“News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris”
1994	Nell Irvin Painter Princeton University	“Sojourner Truth”
1993	Michael Zuckerman University of Pennsylvania	“Benjamin Franklin”
1992	James McPherson Princeton University	“Lincoln and Emancipation”