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Lecture
Great Lives Lecture- Lewis & Clark/Sacagawea
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgLewis & Clark/Sacagawea Lecture Date: January 18, 2024 The Davenport & Company Lecture Thomas Jefferson, years before his Presidency, dreamed of an expedition to the Northwest that would open the door to commerce and the Manifest Destiny of the new United States of America. When he became President, Jefferson had both the opportunity and the […]
Great Lives Lecture- Shakespeare
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgShakespeare Lecture Date: January 23, 2024 The Stephen and Patricia Powers Gaske Lecture Shakespeare is the most elusive of biographical subjects. “‘Shakespeare’ is present as an absence—which is to say, as a ghost,” the Harvard professor Marjorie Garber once wrote. What haunts is the very emptiness of the authorial identity, yet this emptiness that has […]
Great Lives Lecture- George IV and Elizabeth
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgGeorge VI and Elizabeth Lecture Date: January 25, 2024 The Gemini 3 Group Lecture New York Times bestselling author and historian of the royal family Sally Bedell Smith will speak about her new book, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy. They were introduced to new generations in the movie The King’s […]
Human Trafficking Awareness Event
Impact Church 10835 Tidewater Trl, Fredericksburg, VA, United States27.6 million people. That's 27,600,000 people around the world who are labor slaves. This is more than at any other time in human history. But we don't have to just shake our heads and keep scrolling. God can use us to bring His freedom to tens of millions around the world! Join us for an […]
Great Lives Lecture- Sam Shepard
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgSam Shepard Lecture Date: January 30, 2024 The UMW Theatre Lecture After an introduction to the life and work of Sam Shepard, John will examine the many themes that animate his 1984 play True West, which is being presented in the spring semester by the UMW Theatre Department. The play answers the dramatic question: What […]
Great Lives Lecture- George Washington
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgGeorge Washington Lecture Date: February 6, 2024 The Roxanne M. Kaufman Lecture Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything […]
Great Lives Lecture- Mary Lumpkin
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgMary Lumpkin: Enslaved Woman, Liberator Lecture Date: February 8, 2024 The Virginia Partners Bank Lecture Born in Virginia in 1832, Mary Lumpkin lived much of her young life in a slave jail in Richmond known as Lumpkin’s Jail, where she was forced to have the children of her enslaver, the slave jail owner Robert Lumpkin. […]
Great Lives Lecture- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgFranklin D. Roosevelt Lecture Date: February 15, 2024 The Irene and Curry Roberts Lecture This revealing biography shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt found his true self in his searing struggle with polio—emerging with a strength and wisdom he would use to inspire the world. Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to be a political “natural.” Yet for […]
Great Lives Lecture- Picasso
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgPicasso Lecture Date: February 20, 2024 The Jon Properties/Van Zandt Restorations Lecture Few modern artists captured the popular imagination as did the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Picasso’s influence on art and design in the 20th c. is indisputable. Moreover, for generations of creative individuals Picasso defined what it meant to be “an artist”: free, […]
Great Lives Lecture- Stan Lee
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgStan Lee: Spider-Man and Marvel Comics Lecture Date: February 22, 2024 The Yuh Prosthodontics Lecture Join cultural historian Bob Batchelor on an exhilarating journey into the extraordinary life of Stan Lee, an icon whose legacy is as epic as the superheroes he co-created. Renowned for film cameos as the Marvel movie franchise conquered the world, […]
Great Lives Lecture- Martin Luther King Jr.
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgMartin Luther King Jr. Lecture Date: February 27, 2024 The John and Linda Coker Lecture In hallowing Martin Luther King Jr., we have hollowed him. We have replaced his radical vision for justice with a romantic image of a man who stands for little more than love and peace. For the past seven years, Jonathan […]
Women’s History Month Lecture
University of Mary Washington, Chandler Ballroom 1301 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VAJoin the University of Mary Washington as they welcome York College of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor of History Dr. Jacqueline Beatty, author of IN DEPENDENCE: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America. Dr. Beatty illustrates the everyday lives of women in the era of the American Revolution who asserted their status as dependents, demanding the […]
Great Lives Lecture- Rosemary Kennedy
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgRosemary Kennedy Lecture Date: February 29, 2024 The Coldwell Banker Elite Lecture Rosemary, Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful eldest daughter attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the queen and king of England, and traveled the world with her high-spirited sisters and brothers. Yet Rosemary was intellectually disabled, a secret fiercely guarded […]
Great Lives Lecture- Edith Wilson
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgEdith (Mrs. Woodrow) Wilson Lecture Date: March 12, 2024 The Chancellor's Village Lecture Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was. She climbed her […]
Great Lives Lecture- Billie Jean King
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgBillie Jean King Lecture Date: March 14, 2024 The UMW James Farmer Multicultural Center Lecture When Billie Jean King set out to be a champion tennis player in the 1960s, she quickly realized the world she wanted didn’t exist yet for women. So she set out to help create it. Her early life played out […]
Great Lives Lecture- Elizabeth Taylor
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgElizabeth Taylor Lecture Date: March 19, 2024 The Jubilation by Silver Companies Lecture No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor’s glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system, and she is a legend known for her beauty and her magnetic screen presence […]
Great Lives Lecture- George Remus
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgGeorge Remus: A Real-Life Gatsby Lecture Date: March 21, 2024 The UMW Dining Lecture In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quit practicing law and started trafficking whiskey. Within two years he owned 35 percent of all the liquor in the United […]
Great Lives Lecture- Ten Caesars
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgTen Caesars Lecture Date: March 26, 2024 Ten Caesars is the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. The empire reached from modern-day Britain to Iraq. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, […]
Great Lives Lecture- Edgar Allan Poe
Dodd Auditorium George Washington Hall, University of Mary Washington, FredericksburgEdgar Allan Poe Lecture Date: March 28, 2024 The Russell and Barbara Stone ‘79 Mait Lecture It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own […]
Fredericksburg Area Museum Evening with an Expert: Whitney Nell Stewart
Fredericksburg Area Museum 907 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, VA, United StatesThe Fredericksburg Area Museum (FAM) is pleased to announce our fall Evening with an Expert Lecture Series presented by Lewis Insurance Associates. This season’s series discusses topics closely related to FAM’s current exhibitions: A Monumental Weight: The Auction Block in Fredericksburg Virginia Linking North and South: Fredericksburg’s Historic Railroad and Out and About: Fredericksburg’s Walk […]
