George Rogers Clark Lectures

The George Rogers Clark Lecture series was established in 1975 to bring historians to Anderson House to speak on subjects relating to the American Revolution. The series is named in honor of General George Rogers Clark (1752-1818), the frontiersman and hero of the western campaigns during the Revolutionary War. The inaugural lecture was given by the preeminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison,

one of his last public appearances before his death in 1976. It has been followed by annual lectures by prominent scholars and writers in the field. Several of the earliest lectures were published by the Society. Edmund S. Morgan's 1977 lecture The Genius of George Washington was ranked third among the "Top Ten Best Books on George Washington" in a Mount Vernon poll of historians.

The following is a chronological list of the George Rogers Clark Lectures given to date:

1975 Samuel Eliot Morison. The Conservative American Revolution (published)
1977  Mar J. H. Plumb. New Light on the Tyrant George III  (published)
1977  Nov Edmund S. Morgan. The Genius of George Washington  (published)

1979

 Page Smith. Reflections on the Nature of Leadership  (published)
1982 John Shy. Understanding General Washington
1984

Russell F. Weigley. Generals Building an Army: American Military Command in the War of Independence.*
1985 John R. Galvin. Parker at Lexington: Role of Perspective and Context.*
1986 Allan R. Millet. Whatever Became of the Militia in the History of the American Revolution?*
1987 Hobart C. Cawood. Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Constitution
1988 George Billias. Elbridge Gerry: Defender of Republican Faith
1989 Charles McC. Mathias. Exalted Rights and Liberties
1990 William James Morgan. Out of a Little, A Great Deal Will Grow: The American War at Sea
1991 Minor Myers, jr. Another L'Enfant Creation, the Cincinnati Eagle
1992 Robert K. Wright, Jr. A New Look at the South Campaigns: A Contingency
      Operation?
1993 Professor John Murrin. War, Revolution and Nation-Making: The American
      Revolution vs. the Civil War
1994 Lt. Gen. Dave R. Palmer. From Revolution to Republic - America, Its Army and
      the Birth of a Nation
1995 Dr. Fred Anderson. The Hinge of the Revolution: July 3, 1775.
1996 William M. Fowler. Silas Talbot: An American Hero
1997 Professor Don Higginbotham. Washington The Unifier
1998 Timothy Hall Breen. Mobilizing Colonial Consumers for Independence
1999 John K. Alexander. "Remember the Ladies": Women in the American Revolution
2000 Richard Norton Smith. Untrodden Ground: Washington Invents the Presidency
2001 Richard Buel, Jr. The Critical Role of Corn, Cows, and Cuba in the
      Revolutionary War
2002 Ira D. Gruber. From Ceasar to Vauban: Books, the British Army Officer and
      the Conduct of War in the Age of the American Revolution
2003 Gordon S. Wood. The American Revolutionary Tradition and the World
2004 David McCullough. 1776
2005 Thomas Fleming. A Visit to Valley Forge
2006 Bernard Bailyn. Why Britain Lost the American Revolution
2007 Ron Chernow. Hamilton, Washington, and the Birth of the American Republic

( * These lectures were published together in a single volume.)

 
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