Past Lectures

2011-2012

• Robert Horton – Alien Encounters: Sci-Fi Movies and the Cold War of the 1950’s
• Patrick Lubinski – Washington Under Ice: Investigating the Wenas Creek Mammoth
• Lynne Lglitzin – Trailblazing Photojournalist: Margaret Bourke-White
• Michele Gerber – Once-in-a-Lifetime Journey: Coming to Hanford in World War II
• Bruce and Susan Matley – Journeys West:  -- cancelled due to weather
• Wayne Horvitz – A Lumberjacks Prayer
• Karen Haas – Tales from the Time of Lewis & Clark
• Anu Taranath – Global Literature: How Learning About “Over There” Helps Us Understand “Over There”
• Judith Roche – The Poetics of Place: Expressing Your Sense of Place through Poetry (Workshop)
• Robert Keller – Reconciling the Past: The History, Literature, and Ethics of Japanese Removal

2010-2011

• Joan Hockaday – Olmsted in the Pacific Northwest: Parks, Gardens, and Campus Designs
• Linda Allen – Here’s to the Women
• David Bullock – A Strike at the Heart: Historical Memory and Roslyn’s Western Miners Union
• Amy Rubin – The Fascinating Rhythms of North and South America
• Mary Michaelson – Finding Aunt Phoebe: My Search for the True Life of Phoebe Goodell Judson
• Rebecca Hom – Climbing Gold Mountain, Gum Sahn: Chinese Pioneers in the Western Frontier
• Ben Mitchell – Ruben Trejo: A Chicano Artist and Activist of the Pacific Northwest
• Harriet Baskas – What is That?: Unusual and Offbeat People, Places, Things, and Events in Washington State

2009-2010

• James Waller – Genocide in our Time: Why Darfur Matters
• Eva Abram – Fun-tastic Folktales: African and African-America Folktales
• Robert Carriker – A Student on the Columbia River: Sacagawea in the Pacific Northwest
• Dennis Dauble – History of Fish and Fishing in the Columbia River Basin
• Jim Kershner – Carl Maxey: Washington’s Fighter for Civil Rights
• Joan Wolfberg – Eleanor Roosevelt: No Ordinary Woman
• Alan Stein – The 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington’s First World’s Fair
• Bruce and Susan Matley – Cowboys and Cowgirls In Story and Song

2008-2009

• Joan Wolfberg – Golda Meir: From Pogrom to Prime Minister
• Harvest Moon – Wisdom, Weaving, Songs, and Legends
• Gary Kleinknecht – A Trail Through Time: Ice Age Foods National Geographic Trail
• Eva Abram – Heroes of Civil Rights
• Tames Alan – Soldiers in Petticoats: The Struggle of the Suffragettes
• Raymond Egan – The Oregon Trail to Washington: Ezra Sets the Record Straight
• Gerardo Calderon and Cindy Williams – The Poetry and Music of Ancient Mexico
• Vivian and Phil Williams – Pioneer Dance Tunes of the Far West

2007-2008

• John Salicco – From Banjos to Blues: An American Musical Experience
• Jack Nisbet – Pacific NW Naturalist, David Douglas
• Bruce Bjornstad – Exploring Our Ice Age Floods
• Hank Cramer – Celtic to Cowboy, Roots Music of the American West
• Karen Haas – Narcissa Whitman, Lady at the Crossroads
• Susan G Butruille – Abigail Scott Duniway in Washington
• Tames Alan – What Do the Simple Folk Do? English Country Song and Dance for Everyone
• Tames Alan – Trial by Fork: Formal Victorian Dinning Demystified

2006-2007

• Susan Noyes Platt – Four African American Artist Working in Washington State Since 1945
• Inga Wiehl – Radios, Rakes, and “Rowing”: Life on the Columbia 1928-1929
• Susan Burtruille – Tea, True Womanhood and Uppity Women
• David Nicandri – Clark and Thompson; 1793-1811
• Hank Cramer – Sailors
• Henry Friedman – I’m no Hero: Journey’s of a Holocaust Survivor
• Tames Alan – Intrepid Victorian Traveler

2005-2006

• Gary Stroutsos – Along the River
• Brian Pertl – Tantric Voices Thighbone Trumpet: A Look at Tibetan Buddhist Music and Culture.
• Raymond Egan – Ezar Meeker: George Washington Bush
• Allan Hirsch – The Real Toy Story
• Jack Nisbet – The Country Appears Good for Them: Columbia River Drainage at the Moment of Contact, 1800-1850
• Daniel Lamberton – The Curious Mr. Matsura
• Antoinette Botsford, Ph.D. – The Feminine Touch: Native American Women Who Made a Difference
• Peter Donaldson – The Indicator Conversation: How to Measure Sustainable Prosperity in Pacific NW
• Tames Alan – From the Streets of Shakespeare to the Court of Elizabeth
• Vivian and Phillip Williams – Fiddling Down the Oregon Trail

2004-2005

• Linda Carlson – Company Towns: Their Importance in the Modern West
• Junius Rochester – Lewis & Clark: Before and After
• Brian Pertl – Didjeridus, Discos, and Dim Sum
• Antoinette Botsford, PH.D. – On the Trail with Sacagawea
• Karol and James Brown – A Visit with Aunt Harriet
• Karen Haas – Sisters in Time
• Rick Nelson – America Quilts/American Quilts
• Don Foran – Poetry & the Fibrillating Heart
• Bernard Edward Meyer – Mahatma Gandhi: Great Teacher, World Citizen
• Thomas Blatt – Racism, Genocide & Resistance in the Holocaust

2003-2004

• Barry Herem – Arts of the Raven Coast
• Mike Vouri and Sugar on the Floor – The Life and Times of General George E. Pickett
• Teresa Trebon – In Search of Healing: A Historical Retrospective of Medical Care in Washington, 1850-1950
• Don Holsinger – Abrahams Triple Heritage
• Wesley Van Tassel – Shakespeare Out Loud: Unlocking the Meaning of Shakespeare
• Vivian and Phillip Williams – Fiddling Down the Oregon Trail
• Sara Edlin-Marlowe – A Conversation with Georgia O’Keefe
• Nisbet – Smoke: Native and Trade Tobacco on the Columbia Plateau
• Harvest Moon – Mother Earth, Games and Legends
• Todd Randleman – The Action of Mercy: A Flannery O’Connor Performance Hour
• Sean Williams – Islam and Music in the Islamic World

2002-2003

• Jack Nisbet – Down the Columbia River with David Thompson 1807-1812
• Margaret Hopstein – The "-stan" Countries: Is it Possible to Live in Peace?
• Don Holsinger – The Travels of Ibn Battuta: Explaining the Divergent Paths of Islam and the West
• Theresa Trebon – “We Have Sorrow Upon Us Again" A Century of Mourning and Burial Customs in Washington State
• Joan Tucker – Beggar/Builder, the Story of Mother Joseph
• Jennifer Hahn – Spirited Waters: A Naturalist's Journey on the Inside Passage
• Harvest Moon – Mary Sam (c. 1830-1923) Basket Weaver, Visionary, Provider, and Survivor
• Sara Eldin-Marlowe – Sacagawea
• Tames Alan – From the Streets of Rome to the Provinces of an Empire

2001-2002

• Daniel Lamberton – Theodore Roethke in America’s Most Beautiful Place
• William Woodward – Wars in Early Washington
• Chenyang Li – Do Human Beings Have Moral Obligations to the Environment
• William Woodward – Baseball in America
• Nancy Nelson – A Musical Sojourn of African American History
• Peter Donaldson – Leonardo daVinci
• Karol Brown – Harriet Tubman, Traveling on the Underground Railroad
• Keo Capestany – Wrestling with English
• Judith Kay – Life Unworthy of Life
• Peter Fromm – Visions of a Water Rat
• Phillip and Vivian Williams – Fiddling Down the Old Oregon Trail

2000-2001

• Kenneth Greg Watson – The Hops Craze Western Washington First Big Business
• David L. Nicandri – Clark & Lewis in Washington: The Narrative of Discovery
• Antoinette Botsford, Ph.D. – Tales From a Metis Childhood
• Peter J. Fromm – Whale Tales: Human Interactions with Whales
• Nancy J. Nelson – African American Women in Music: Not Just the Blues
• Nancy J. Nelson – The Time Line
• Antoinette Botsford, Ph.D. – The Lost Journals of Emily Pauline Johnson
• Brain Pertl – The Oompah Heard Around the World: How the Lowly Brass Band Changed the World’s Music
• Judith W. Kay – Healing the Wounds of Violence: New Moral Voices
• Henry Friedman – I’m No Hero: Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor
• Keo Capestany – The Faith & fate of Montezuma
• Brian Pertl – Joiks, Panpipes & Talking Drums
• Bill Wassmuth – White Supremacists: What They Tell Us about Today’s Society

 1999-2000

• Paul Edward Smith – Edgar Allan Poe: The Poet’s Journey
• Mary Kine Rose – Navigating the Maritime Routes of Washington Heritage
• Gordon Jackson – Censorship: The Stone in the Shoe of a Free Society
• Ray Egan – The Oregon Trail: Our Great National Highway
• Carl Allen – Woody Guthrie and the Columbia River Songs
• Roger Fernandes – Creations of the First People
• Daniel Lamberton – Washington’s Poetry: Sounds for a Landscape
• Barbara Callander and Toni Douglass – Missed Liberties
• Antonio Sanchez – Fruits of Our Labor: The Accomplishments & Contributions of Hispanics in Washington State 1797-Present
  

1998-1999

• Tese Wintz Neighbor – Return to Hong Kong
• Barry Herem – Raven Rising: The Native Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast
• Milenko Matanovic – Community Practice: How We Can Help Our Communities
• Roger Fernandes – Teachings of the First People
• Diana Marre – A Really Big Shoe: Preserving Characters from Personal History
• Richard Evans – Humor in Music
• Rod Molzahn – A Question of Authorship: Did Shakespeare Really Write That Stuff?