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Penick Academic Complex, G.M. Savage Chapel

The Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lectureship is in its 14th year and will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe, Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA and Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University. Dr. Howe will speak on October 26, 2010, at 7:15 p.m. in Union’s G. M. Savage Memorial Chapel. His lecture is titled “ What Hath God Wrought: Manifest Destiny and the Communications Revolution of Nineteenth-Century America.” Dr. Howe is the author or editor of seven outstanding history books, and the author of over fifty historical articles and essays. His book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Historical Society American Book Prize in 2008; it was also a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. He served as the president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2000-2001, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in Great Britain. His October 26 lecture is free and open to the public.