The William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization is a series of public lectures held every one or two years at Harvard University since 1984. It is sponsored by the university's Program in the History of American Civilization and was endowed by an anonymous donor in honor of William E. Massey, former president of the A.T. Massey Coal Company.
Lecturers
1984 – Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings 1986 – Irving Howe, The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson 1988 – Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America 1988 – Conor Cruise O'Brien, God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism 1990 – David Brion Davis, Revolutions: Reflections on American Equality and Foreign Liberations 1992 – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 1992 – Gore Vidal, Screening History 1994 – Eugene D. Genovese, The Southern Tradition 1995 – Alfred Kazin, Writing Was Everything 1996 – Stephen L. Carter, The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty 1997 – Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America 1999 – Andrew Delbanco, The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope 2000 – Maxine Hong Kingston To Be the Poet 2003 – E. L. Doctorow, Reporting the Universe 2004 – Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time 2004 – John Demos, Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America 2005 – Jayati Ghosh, The Economics of the American Empire: Fierceness and Fragility 2008 – Joan C. Williams, Obama Eats Arugula: Reshaping the Electoral and Everyday Politics of Work and Family 2009 – Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery 2011 – Sally Mann, If Memory Serves 2012 – Gish Jen, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self 2013 – Greil Marcus, Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations 2015 – Linda Greenhouse, Just a Journalist: Reflections on Journalism, Life, and the Spaces Between 2017 – Winona LaDuke, Climate Change, Indigenous Resistance, and Forging a New Democracy: Thoughts for the Present Moment
References
External links The Massey Lectures American Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University Past Massey lectures and books, covering 1984 to 2003