Department of History
Richard S. Wells Lectures: New Approaches in Early American History
The annual Wells Lectures, sponsored by a former graduate of our M.A. program in American History, are designed to feature historians who are pursuing particularly creative new approaches to Early American History.
Nominations can be made by mail or email. Download nomination form:
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Mail or email to:
Dr. Phyllis Hunter
UNCG History Department
P.O. Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
pwhunter@uncg.edu
2008 Richard S. Wells Lecture
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Jill Lepore, "Paper Trail: The Rise and Fall of the Paper Ballot"
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The third Richard S. Wells Lecture will be on September 18, 2008, in Science 101, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a reception following the lecture. JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Her most recent book, New York Burning (2005), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include A is for American (2002) and The Name of War (1998), winner of the Bancroft Prize. Her essay about Noah Webster appears as the Introduction to Websterisms (2008). Blindspot, her first novel, written jointly with Jane Kamensky, will be published in December 2008. Lepore received a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1990, and a B.A. in English from Tufts University in 1987.