September 30, 2016

Purdue Libraries hosting Michael Beschloss for Distinguished Lecture Series

Michael Beschloss Michael Beschloss, award-winning historian, best-selling author, New York Times columnist and Emmy-winning contributor to NBC News, PBS News Hour, MSNBC and NPR, will speak at Purdue. (Photo provided) Download image

Purdue University Libraries will host Michael Beschloss, award-winning historian, best-selling author, New York Times columnist and Emmy-winning contributor to NBC News, PBS News Hour, MSNBC and NPR, as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series.

His lecture, "The History-Making Election of 2016," will be 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Beschloss has served as a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, a resident scholar at Oxford University and a senior fellow of the Annenberg Foundation. He holds degrees from Williams College and Harvard University.

He has received the State of Illinois’s Order of Lincoln, the Ambassador Book Prize, the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, the Founders Award of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the New York State Archives Award and the Rutgers University Living History Award.

Beschloss is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation and a former trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

He also was the Purdue Libraries’ Distinguished Lecture speaker during the 2008 presidential campaign.

This 14th lecture in the series was made possible by major funding to Purdue Libraries from the estate of Anna M. Akeley and is co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts.

For more information, contact Ashley Hutchcraft at ahutchcr@purdue.edu.


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