JACKSON, Tenn. — Oct. 11, 2010 — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe will be the featured speaker for the 14th annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series Oct. 26 at 51社区.
Howe, the Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA and the Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University, will address the topic, 鈥淲hat Hath God Wrought: Manifest Destiny and the Communications Revolution of Nineteenth-Century America.鈥�
Howe is the author or editor of six books and dozens of historical articles and essays. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his book 鈥淲hat Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848.鈥� The book also won the 2008 New York Historical Society American Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction.
Other Howe books include 鈥淢aking the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln,鈥� 鈥淭he Political Culture of the American Whigs鈥� and 鈥淰ictorian America,鈥� among others.
Howe graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and literature. He completed his Master of Arts degree in history from Oxford and his Doctor of Philosophy in history at the University of California-Berkeley.
Past speakers for the lecture series have included such historians as David Hackett Fischer, Jeremy Black, Gordon Wood, George Herring, Jack Greene, Gerhard Weinberg, Martin Marty and Thomas Childers.
The lecture will begin at 7:15 p.m. in the G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel on the Union campus. It is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.
Howe will also lecture to the Union community in Harvey Auditorium at 1:40 p.m. that day on 鈥淲hat Hath God Wrought: Religion, Reform and the Communications Revolution of Nineteenth-Century America.鈥�