Previous Jefferson Lecturers
Donald Harrington, 1985 Peter Onuf, 2000 “Thomas Jefferson: Apostle of Freedom” “Thomas Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationalism” Charles Cullen, 1986 “Thomas Jefferson and the Separation Neil Postman, 2001 of Church and State” “Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century” Merrill Peterson, 1987 “Thomas Jefferson, the Founders and Annette Gordon-Reed, 2002 the Constitutional Change” “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings” st Henry Steele Commager, 1988 Ralph Ketcham, 2003 “Thomas Jefferson and the World “Jeffersonian Citizenship, 1803 and 2003” 31 Annual Community: The Community of Learning and War” Herbert Sloan, 2004 Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson “Real Men Don’t Buy Brocade: Some James MacGregor Burns, 1989 Thoughts on Jefferson as Consumer” Lecture Series “American Rights, American Dreams” Irene Castle McLaughlin, 2005 John E. O’Connor, 1990 “Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the “Thomas Jefferson: Scientist and Indians” Technologist” Lucia Stanton, 2006 Annamay Sheppard, 1991 “Slavery at Monticello” “Thomas Jefferson and the Right to Know” Doron Ben-Atar, 2007 Jack McLaughlin, 1992 “Thomas Jefferson and the American “Monticello: Thomas Jefferson’s Fantasy of Power” “Acts of Power: The Boston Tea Party, American Villa” David L. Holmes, 2008 Thomas Jefferson, and Fears of James B. Shenton, 1993 “Thomas Jefferson and Religion” “Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton: Profiles in Contrast” Steven Edenbo, 2009 Enslavement” “In the Course of Human Events” Jan Ellen Lewis, 1994 “Jefferson and Slavery” Jan Ellen Lewis, 2010 “Thomas Jefferson’s Two Families” James Gilreath, 1995 Tuesday, April 21, 2015 “Jefferson’s Library” Gautham Rao, 2011 “Regulating the Troublesome Market: 9:30-11:30 a.m. Carl Prince, 1996 Thomas Jefferson’s Surprising Expansion “Jefferson and the Presidency” of Federal Power, 1801-1809” Multipurpose Room, University Commons Mark Lender, 1997 Andrew Shankman, 2012 “Jefferson as Commander-in-Chief” “Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy” Anthony J. Santoro, 1998 “Jefferson and the Federal Judiciary” Brian Phillips Murphy, 2013 ”Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and Pauline Maier, 1999 the Limits of Partisanship in American “Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration Democracy” of Independence” Steven Edenbo and Peyton Dixon, 2014 “We Disagreed As Rational Friends:” A Debate Between John Adams & Thomas Jefferson Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He is the author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea st Party and the Making of America (New 31 Annual Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson which won the triennial Society of the Lecture Series Cincinnati Cox Book Prize in 2013; and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). He is co-editor, with Richard D. Brown, of Major Problems in the Era APRIL 21, 2015 of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays, 3rd edition (Boston: “Acts of Power: The Boston Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, and Fears of Enslavement” Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2014). He received his B.A. from Yale University and Featuring Benjamin L. Carp, associate professor of history at Brooklyn College his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and he previously taught at the University Moderated by of Edinburgh and Tufts University. Ryan J. Rebe, assistant professor of political science at William Paterson University
Program
9:30 a.m. Welcome...... Provost Warren Sandmann 9:45 a.m. 31st Anniversary Remarks...... Lucia McMahon 10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker...... Benjamin L. Carp 10:45 a.m. Audience Discussion...... Ryan Rebe
The Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson Lecture Series was established with an endowment from Abram Kartch, an attorney and Jefferson scholar. Each year, William Paterson University presents a lecture examining a particular aspect of the thought of this great American.
Support for the 31st Anniversary of the Jefferson Lecture Series was provided by het Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson Lecture Committee William Paterson University Foundation and Department of History. Lucia McMahon, Program Coordinator Jean Aires • Suzanne Bowles Richard Kearney • Ryan Rebe George Robb • Robert Wolk