Pflaum Lecturer Names and Titles, 1971-present
1971-72 Bell Wiley (Emory University) - “Johnny Reb and Billy Yank”
1972-73 Warren Hassler (Pennsylvania State University) - “McClellan”
1973-74 Willie Lee Rose (Johns Hopkins University) - “The Domestication of Domestic Slavery”
1974-75 John Shy (University of Michigan) - “Hearts and Minds in the American Revolution”
1975-76 Steven Riess (Northeastern Illinois University) - “Professional Baseball and American Culture”
1976-77 Samuel F. Scott (Wayne State) - “Army and Revolution in France, 1789-92"
1977-78 Alfred Rieber (University of Pennsylvania) - “The Structure of Politics in Tsarist Russia”
1978-79 None
1979-80 None
1980-81 Michael Zuckerman (University of Pennsylvania) - “Fate, Flux, and Good Fellowship: An Early Virginia Design for the Dilemma of American Business”
1981-82 Harold Deutsch (US Army War College) - “The Effect of the Ultra Secret on World War II”
1982-83 (Oct) C. Edward Skeen (Memphis State University) - “The Compensation Act of 1816 and the Problem of the Rise of the Second Party System”
(Apr) Kenneth Short (Westminster College) - “How to Love the British in 126 Minutes”
1983-84 John Modell (Carnegie-Mellon University) - “Women Drivers”
1984-85 Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania) - “The Fall of Hermogenes: Sorcery, Witchcraft, and the Visual Arts, 1400-1800"
1985-86 Immanuel Geiss (University of Bremen) - “The German Question and World War I”
1986-87 Richard J. Sommers (US Military History Institute) - “Grant and Lee at Petersburg”
1987-88 Robert I. Weiner (Lafayette College) - “French Jewry Since World War II”
1988-89 Jay Luvaas (US Army War College) - “Europeans and the American Civil War”
1989-90 Charles J. Herber (George Washington University) - “German Unification: Past and Present”
1990-91 Francis Jennings (Director Emeritus of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library, Chicago) - “Indians Discover the New World: The Susquehannocks and the European Encounter”
1991-92 James Muldoon (Professor of History, Rutgers University) - “Christopher Columbus: The Man and the Myth”
1992-93 Dr. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. (Curators’ Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia) - “Thomas Jefferson after 250 Years”
1993-94 Dr. Clifford McClain Foust (Professor of History, University of Maryland) - “The Drug of Choice in the 18th Century”
1994-95 Dr. Raymond W. Smock (Historian of the US House of Representatives) - “History and How We Use It”
1995-96 Dr. John Voll (Deputy Director, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University) - “Who Owns History”
1996-97 Dr. Graydon Tunstall (Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Phi Alpha Theta) - “The Historian as Detective: How to Rewrite the History of the Origins of World War”
1997-98 Dr. Edward Acton (Professor of Modern History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England) - “Nazism and Stalinism: A Suitable Comparison”
1998-99 Dr. Mercedes Vilanova (Professor of Contemporary Spanish History, University of Barcelona, Spain) - “Grassroots Politics in Barcelona During the Spanish Civil War: Illiteracy, Workers’ Movements, and Women”
1999-2000 Dr. Harold Sanders (Director of International Affairs, Charles F. Kettering Foundation) - “The Birth of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Roots of a New Paradigm for International Relations in the Twenty-first Century”
2000-01 Dr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History, University of Florida) - “The Last Famous Duel in South Carolina, 1880"
2001-02 Dr. Samuel Baily (Professor of History, Rutgers University) - “Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: A Comparative Analysis of the Italian Experience in the Americas”
2002-03 William J. Burns (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs) - “Undoing the Gordian Knot: Iraq, Terrorism, Arab-Israeli Violence and Regional Reform in the Middle East”
2003-04 Dr. Jean Harvey Baker (Professor of History, Goucher College) - “Revisiting the Buchanan Presidency”
2004-05 Dr. Donna Gabaccia (Mellon Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh) – “Nations of Immigrants”
2005-06 Geoffrey R. Stone, Esq. (University of Chicago Law School) - “Civil Liberties in Wartime” - 2005 Constitution Address & Pflaum Lecture
2006-07 Dr. Lamin Sanneh (Yale University) – “In a Post 9/11 World, is Religion Safe?”
2007-08 Dr. (LTC Ret.) Conrad Crane (Director, US Military History Institute, US Army War College) - “Wandering in the Desert: An Historian’s Attempt to Influence the War in Iraq”
2008-09 Dr. Brian Donahue (Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Department of American Studies) - “Sustainable Suburbia? Making Connections Among Land, History, Education and Community”
2009-10 Dr. Thomas Hull (Ambassador Sierre Leone 2004-07; Warburg Chair in International Relations, Simmons College) - “Confronting Africa’s Anguish”
2010-11 Dr. Daniel Walker Howe (Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) Winner of 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History - “What Hath God Wrought: The Communication Revolution of 19th Century America”
2011-12 Dr. Zachary Lockman (Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University) - “The Arab Uprisings: Burdens of the Past, Hopes for the Future”
2012-13 Dr. Michael Katz (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania) - “Why Don’t American Cities Burn Very Often?”
2014-15 Dr Michael Adas (Abraham E. Voorhees Professor of History, Rutgers University) - "War of the Empires: The Great War and the Demise of the European World Order"
2015-16 Dr Peter Gatrell (Professor of History, the University of Manchester) - "Writing the History of Refugees in the 20th Century: What's New, What's Next?"
2016-17 Dr Jeffrey Pilcher (Professor of History, the University of Toronto) - "Dos Equis or Five Rabbit? Beer and Taste in Greater Mexico"
2017-18 Dr John Bodnar (Professor of History, Indiana University) "Patriotic Optics and America's War on Terror"
2018-19 Dr Jacqueline Jones (Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin) "The Idea of Race as a Political Strategy"
2019-20 None (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020-21 Dr Daniel Richter (Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania) "The Lords Proprietors: America's Forgotten Feudal Past" (delivered via Zoom)
2021-22 Dr Katherine Benton-Cohen (Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies, Department of History, Georgetown University) "In the Middle: Being a Historian at Middle Distance, Middle Age and in the Middle of It"
2022-23 Dr Penny von Eschen (William R. Kenan Jr Professor of American Studies and Professor of History, the University of Virginia) "Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Russie, Eastern Europe, and the United States"
2023-24 Dr Annette Joseph-Gabriel (John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Associete Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University) "The Other Toussaints: Atlantic Genealogies of Black Girlhood in the 19th Century"
2024-25 Dr Elisabeth Leake (Associate Professor of History and Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University) “Decolonization, Opposition, and the Histories of Dissent’”