The Melbern G. Glasscock Lectures:  New Directions in U.S. History

 

presents

 

"Ornithological Gothic:

John James Audubon and the Tale of the Golden Eagle "

 

by

 

Dr. Gregory H. Nobles

Director, Georgia Tech Honors Program

 

 

Monday, September 17, 2007

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Sterling Evans Library, Room 204E

 

Greg Nobles (PhD, University of Michigan, 1979) specializes in early American and environmental history. His articles have appeared in journals such as the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Social History, and the Journal of American History, and his most recent book is American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (1997). He is currently at work on a book entitled Naturalist Nation: The Art and Science of Birds in Audubon's America. He has held two Fulbright professorships, as Senior Scholar in New Zealand (1995), and as the John Adams Chair in American History in The Netherlands (2002). He has also held numerous research grants, including three from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and residential fellowships at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, the American Antiquarian Society, the Huntington Library, the Princeton University Library, and the Newberry Library. In 2004, he was named to the Distinguished Lectureship Program of the Organization of American Historians, and in 2005, he was elected to the Advisory Council of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

 

 

A public lecture sponsored by the Department of History.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Walter L. Buenger by email: w-buenger@tamu.edu