From its inception American Studies has sponsored distinguished speakers, including the novelist Saul Bellow, the first Nobel Laureate ever to lecture in Shreveport. Lectures, stage portrayals, special exhibits, concerts and symposia are offered to local audiences. Since 1998, half-day symposia - the Cross-Currents/Heroes of the Humanities Series - comprise the main American Studies offerings during the spring semester. Recently, coverage by C-SPAN expanded the audience to a national one. Further recognition of the caliber of the offerings is evident in underwriting from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH).
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Past Cross-Currents/Heroes of the Humanities Series
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1980 |
William F. Buckley, Jr., James MacGregor Burns, Saul Bellow, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, John Barth, Arthur Schlesinger, C. Vann Woodward, James David Barber, James C. Davis, Stephen Hess, William E. Leuchtenburg, James L. Sundquist, Henry J. Abraham, Harold M. Hyman |
1998 |
Rivers, Roads and Rails: Southern Gateways
John M. Berry, Douglas Brinkley, Hon. William Jefferson |
1999 |
Heroes After the White House: Post-Presidential Years
Douglas Brinkley and A.B. Assensoh |
2000 |
Divided Highways: Route 66 to I-69
Thomas S. Lewis, Douglas Brinkley and Tom Piazza |
2001 |
The Iron Horse and Heroes of the American West
David Haward Bain, Douglas Brinkley, Niel Johnson, James Foote |
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