Evening Lecture
Elliot West, University of Arkansas, Department of History
Sam Noble Museum, Friday September 23, 6:00 PM
“The West Before Lewis and Clark:  Three Lives”

Too often we think that western history began with the Lewis and  Clark expedition of 1804-1806, but there was a lot that happened before that famous journey.  Dr. West will trace the stories of three persons--a young Frenchman, an Indian woman and a Spanish woman captured by Comanches--to illustrate how sweeping changes were transforming the West, and in particular the Great Plains, including what is now Oklahoma, for a century and a quarter before Lewis and Clark set off up the Missouri River.  

Civil War Lecture Series
(Sponsored by IACH and Department of History)

Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize Winner and Journalist
“Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that “Sparked the Civil War” 
Nov. 8, Meacham Auditorium, Memorial Union, 7:00 PM