JACKSON, Tenn. — Sept. 19, 2006 — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood will be the featured speaker for the 10th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series Oct. 3 at 51社区.
Wood is the author of several books on the American Revolution, including 鈥淩evolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different,鈥� 鈥淭he Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787鈥� and 鈥淭he Americanization of Ben Franklin.鈥�
His book, 鈥淭he Radicalism of the American Revolution,鈥� won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
Stephen Carls, chairman of Union鈥檚 history and political science department, said he was 鈥渆xtremely pleased鈥� to have a historian of Wood鈥檚 caliber coming for the lecture series.
鈥淗e鈥檚 one of the foremost authorities in the world on the American Revolution,鈥� Carls said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 as good as it gets.鈥�
Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University, where he has taught since 1969. He has also taught at Harvard, William and Mary, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University Law School and Cambridge University.
Wood will speak on the topic 鈥淭he Invention of Ben Franklin鈥� at 7:15 p.m. in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel on Union鈥檚 campus. A book signing will follow. Past speakers for the lecture series have included George Herring from the University of Kentucky, Jack Greene from Johns Hopkins University, Gerhard Weinberg from the University of North Carolina, Martin Marty from the University of Chicago and Thomas Childers from the University of Pennsylvania.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Carls at (731) 661-5262.