Symposium Series

Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency

The Alan B. Larkin Endowed Fund supports an annual symposium and creates supporting graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships for students who demonstrate interest in the American presidency. The annual Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency has a thematic focus, providing distinguished scholars each year with the opportunity to present papers that may be contributed to books, scholarly journals, essays and other publications. The Symposium is held each spring semester with the first held in 2007.

The John O' Sullivan Memorial Lectureship

The mission of the John O'Sullivan Memorial Lectureship is to provide students, secondary school teachers, faculty and public guests with exposure to a distinguished historian of 20th-century American History whose lectureship/presentation broadens and deepens our understanding of the major thematic and conceptual aspects of America's modern history.

Each year the department will print the lecture and make it available on our website at: www.fau.edu/history, as well as in our department for public distribution. The next guest lecturer is Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.  The title of the next lecture will be Consuming Our Wy to Recovery. The next lecture date is November 15, 2012, 1:30pm, Barry and Florence Friedberg Lifelong Learning Center, FAU, Boca Raton campus.  Door price member/nonmember:  $25.00 

  Past Lectures:

Timothy Naftali: "Blind Spot: Secret History of U.S. Counterterrorisim"

David Goldfield: "Religion and Politics:  An American Tradition"                                                                                    

Glenda Gilmore :"The Nazis and Dixie:  African Americans, Jewish Americans, and Fascism, 1933-1939"

Nancy Cott: Revisiting the Jazz Age

Wilson D. Miscamble:  "Harry S. Truman, the Bomb, and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy"

Thomas W. Zeiler:  "The Greatest Generation in a Good War?:  A New Look at Wartime America"

Robert A. Goldberg:  "Enemies Within:  The Conspiracy Culture of Modern American"

Jacob Hamblin:  "The Nuclear Promise:  Global Consequences of an American Dream"