News & Events 2007-2008

History Teachers Attend Lafayette Lecture Series

Jim Connor, history department chair, notes that during the 2007-2008 school year, the department attended several lectures that were part of Lafayette College’s year-long celebration of the birth of Marquis de Lafayette. The program began with a lecture on the French-American alliance during the American Revolution presented by noted historian and author David McCullough.

Thereafter, during the course of the year, various members of the department enjoyed lectures from the following: Simon Schaama, author of Rough Crossings, who spoke about the relationship between the British and American abolitionist movements during the 1830s; Princeton University professor James McPherson, perhaps America’s most respected Civil War historian; Salman Rushdie, author of the novel Satanic Verses, who offered some interesting insights into how his life has changed after the famous “fatwa” was issued against him, and Nicholas Kristoff, the noted columnist for The New York Times, who focused his lecture on the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur. “Certainly,” said Jim, “history teachers attending these wonderful lectures were able to bring new perspectives and topics back to Blair’s classrooms.”

Posted 6/4/08

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