List of Jefferson Lecturers
The following table lists the Jefferson Lecturers and the titles of their lectures.
| Year | Lecturer | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Lionel Trilling | "Mind in the Modern World" |
| 1973 | Erik Erikson | "Dimensions of a New Identity" |
| 1974 | Robert Penn Warren | "Poetry and Democracy" |
| 1975 | Paul A. Freund | "Liberty: The Great Disorder of Speech" |
| 1976 | John Hope Franklin | "Racial Equality in America" |
| 1977 | Saul Bellow | "The Writer and His Country Look Each Other Over" |
| 1978 | C. Vann Woodward | "The European Vision of America" |
| 1979 | Edward Shils | "Render Unto Caesar: Government, Society, and Universities in their Reciprocal Rights and Duties" |
| 1980 | Barbara Tuchman | "Mankind's Better Moments" |
| 1981 | Gerald Holton | "Where is Science Taking Us?" |
| 1982 | Emily Vermeule | "Greeks and Barbarians: The Classical Experience in the Larger World" |
| 1983 | Jaroslav Pelikan | "The Vindication of Tradition" |
| 1984 | Sidney Hook | "Education in Defense of a Free Society" |
| 1985 | Cleanth Brooks | "Literature and Technology" |
| 1986 | Leszek KoĊakowski | "The Idolatry of Politics" |
| 1987 | Forrest McDonald | "The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers" |
| 1988 | Robert Nisbet | "The Present Age" |
| 1989 | Walker Percy | "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind" |
| 1990 | Bernard Lewis | "Western Civilization: A View from the East" |
| 1991 | Gertrude Himmelfarb | "Of Heroes, Villains and Valets" |
| 1992 | Bernard Knox | "The Oldest Dead White European Males" |
| 1993 | Robert Conquest | "History, Humanity and Truth" |
| 1994 | Gwendolyn Brooks | "Family Pictures" |
| 1995 | Vincent Scully | "The Architecture of Community" |
| 1996 | Toni Morrison | "The Future of Time" |
| 1997 | Stephen Toulmin | "A Dissenter's Story" |
| 1998 | Bernard Bailyn | "To Begin the World Anew: Politics and the Creative Imagination" |
| 1999 | Caroline Walker Bynum | "Shape and History: Metamorphosis in the Western Tradition" |
| 2000 | James M. McPherson | "'For a Vast Future Also': Lincoln and the Millennium" |
| 2001 | Arthur Miller | "On Politics and the Art of Acting" |
| 2002 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | "Mr. Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley" |
| 2003 | David McCullough | "The Course of Human Events" |
| 2004 | Helen Vendler | "The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar" |
| 2005 | Donald Kagan | "In Defense of History" |
| 2006 | Tom Wolfe | "The Human Beast" |
| 2007 | Harvey Mansfield | "How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science" |
| 2008 | John Updike | "The Clarity of Things: What Is American about American Art" |
| 2009 | Leon Kass | "'Looking for an Honest Man': Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist." |
| 2010 | Jonathan Spence | "When Minds Met: China and the West in the Seventeenth Century" |
| 2011 | Drew Gilpin Faust | "Telling War Stories: Reflections of a Civil War Historian" |
| 2012 | Wendell Berry | "It All Turns on Affection" |
| 2013 | Martin Scorsese |
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