Previous Athearn Lectures
| Lecture | Lecturer | Affiliation | Title of Lecture |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32nd | Dr. Geraldo L. Cadava | Northwestern University | “The Hispanic Republican: Unpacking Latino Conservation” (View Event Poster) |
| 31st | Dr. Claudio Saunt | University of Georgia | "Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory" (View Event Poster) |
| 30th | Dr.Andrés Reséndez | University of California, Davis | "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Slavery in America" (View Event Poster) |
| 29th | Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez | University of California, Los Angeles | "City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles" (View Event Poster) |
| 28th | Dr. Charles F. Wilkinson | University of Colorado School of Law | “Writing a Tribal History: My Long and Rewarding Journey with the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon” (View Event Poster) |
| 27th | Dr. David Igler | University of California, Irvine | "Imagining a Different Pacific Ocean: Indigenous and European Representations in the Early 19th Century" (View Event Poster) |
| 26th | Dr. Kate Brown | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | "We Are All Citizens of Plutopia: The Militarization of American and Soviet Landscapes" |
| 25th | Dr. Philip J. Deloria | University of Michigan | "Toward an American Indian Abstract: What an Unknown Artist Might Tell Us about Celebrity, the 1930s, Anthropology, Politics, Modernism, and a Few Other Things Besides…" |
| 24th | Dr. Louis S. Warren | University of California, Davis | "The Rising of God's Red Son: The 1890 Ghost Dance Gospels and the Crisis of the Arid West" |
| 23rd | Mae M. Ngai | Columbia University | "The True Story of Ah Jake: Language and Justice in Nineteenth-Century California" |
| 22nd | William F. Deverell | University of Southern California | "To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds:" The American West After the Civil War |
| 21st | Char Miller | Pomona College | "Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio, 1921–1978" |
| 20th | Ramón A. Gutiérrez | University of Chicago | "The Religious Thought of Reies López Tijerina and the Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement" |
| 19th | John R. Wunder | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | "Challenges to History and the Murder of Brandon Teena." |
| 18th | James Brooks | School of American Research | "Friction: Conflict & Creativity in Our American Southwest" |
| 17th | Virginia Scharff | Univ. of New Mexico | "The West As Home" |
| 16th | Alan Taylor | Univ. of California, Davis | "Thomas Jefferson's Pacific: Making a Global West, 1763–1815" |
| 15th | David Gutierrez | Univ. of California, San Diego | "Latinization of the West: Migration, Demographic Change, and the Future of Regional History." |
| 14th | Raymond DeMallie | University of Indiana | "On Writing Lakota History" (In honor of Vine Deloria's retirement) |
| 13th | Katherine Morrissey | Univ. of Arizona | "Mining Stories: Environmental Conflicts in the 20th Century Rocky Mountain West." |
| 12th | Alan Bérubé | Author: Coming Out Under Fire | "'No Race Baiting, Red–Baiting, or Queer Baiting!!' The Marine Cooks & Stewards Union from the Depression to the Cold War" |
| 11th | Duane A. Smith | Ft. Lewis College | "A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and Farming Community in the 1890's" |
| 10th | Peggy Pascoe | Univ. of Utah | "'I belong to the white race I suppose:' Miscegenation Law, Appeals Court, and the Classification of 'Races' in the American West" |
| 9th | Quintard Taylor, Jr. | Univ. of Oregon | "From 'Freedom Now' to 'Black Power:' The Civil Rights Movement in Seattle, 1960–1970" |
| 8th | Donald E. Worster | Univ. of Kansas | "The Black Hills: Sacred or Profane?" |
| 7th | David Brion Davis | Yale University | "Exodus, Colonization and Promised Lands" |
| 6th | John Mack Faragher | Mt. Holyoke College | "The Custom of the Country: Indian-White Marriages in the Trans-Mississippi" |
| 5th | Gordon Hirabayashi | Univ. of Alberta | "Citizen or Non-Alien: An American Minority & the Constitution" |
| 4th | Howard Lamar | Yale University | "The West and Frontier Violence: An Enduring Debate" |
| 3rd | John W. Shy | Univ. of Michigan | "The Question of Violence in the American Revolution" |
| 2nd | William Elliot West | Univ. of Arkansas | "Growing Up Western: Childhood on the Frontier" |
| 1st | Gale McGee | Former Senator, Wyoming | "The New Politics of the Old West: Wyoming 1950–1960 |