- Past Goodman Lectures
Year | Lecturer | Lecture Title |
2023 |
Caroline Elkins |
Empire on Trial: Mau Mau and the High Court of Justice |
2022 |
Ned Blackhawk |
On Violence and the Limits of Settler Colonialism |
2021 |
Bill Waiser |
From Resistance to Reconciliation |
2019 |
Philippa Levine |
All Will Be Revealed: The Politics of Nakedness and the Dilemma of British Morality |
2018 |
Elaine Tyler May | State of Fear: How the Quest for Security has Eroded Democracy |
2017 |
Charlotte Gray | The Past is Present: Popular History and National Consciousness |
2016 |
Mark Ormrod | Talking Politics in Medieval England: News, Views, Secrets, and Lies, 1215-1485 |
2015 |
Stephanie McCurry | Her War: Marriage, Gender and the State in the American Civil War |
2014 |
Ian MacKay | The Promise and the Pitfalls of Vimy Ridge: The Contested Terrain of Remembrance in Interwar Canada |
2013 |
Joanna Bourke | "The Flesh is Weak:" A History of Pain from the 18th Century to the Present |
2012 | Ian K. Steele | 'Setting all the Captives Free': Captivity, Adaptation and Remembrance in Mid-18th Century North America |
2011 | John English | Ice and Water: Can the Arctic Be Governed? |
2010 | David Stafford | Portraits from the Secret War 1940-1945 |
2009 | Harvey Levenstein | Food, Faith and Hope: The Transformation of Food and Its Consequences in North America |
2008 | Michael Bliss | From Fatalism to Mastery: (Canada and) The Coming of Modern Medicine |
2007 | Margaret MacMillan | The Uses and Abuses of History |
2006 | Laurel T. Ulrich | Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History |
2005 | Janice MacKinnon | European Social Programmes and American Tax Rates?: Paying for Canadian Social Programmes |
2004 | Neville Thompson | Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter's Reports from the Capital of Empire, 1936-1960 |
2003 | Admiral William J. Crowe | The U.S. and Iraq |
2002 | Jacalyn Duffin | Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History |
2001 | Jane E. Lewis | Should We Worry About Family Changes? |
2000 | Jack P. Greene | Speaking of Empire: Celebration and Disquiet in Metropolitan Analyses of the Eighteenth Century British Empire |
1999 | T.C. Smout | The Scots at Home and Abroad 1600-1750 |
1998 | Terry Copp | A Citizen Army: The Canadians in Normandy, 1944 |
1997 | Donald Akenson | If The Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, from slavery onwards |
1996 | Ged Martin | Past Futures: Locating Ourselves in Time |
1995 | Rodney Davenport | Birth of the "New" South Africa |
1994 | Flora MacDonald | An Insider's Look at Canadian Foreign Policy Initiatives Since 1957 |
1993 | Daniel Kevles | Nature and Civilization: Environmentalism in the Frame of Time |
1992 | Christopher Andrew | The Secret Cold War: Intelligence Communities and the East-West Conflict |
1991 | P.B. Waite | The Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870-1947 |
1990 | Jill Kerr Conway | The Woman Citizen: Transatlantic Variations on a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Theme |
1989 | Rosalind Mitchison | Coping with Destitution: Poverty and Relief in Western Europe |
1988 | J.L. Granatstein | How Britain's Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States |
1987 | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | The Female Self in the Age of Bourgeois Individualism |
1986 | J.R. Lander | The Limitations of the English Monarchy in the Later Middle Ages |
1985 | Desmond Morton | Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915-1930 |
1984 | William Freehling | Crisis United States Style: A Comparison of the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars |
1983 | Alistair Horne | The French Army and Politics, 1870-1970 |
1982 | Carl Berger | Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada |
1981 | Geoffrey Best | Honour among Men and Nations: Transformations of an Idea |
1980 | Kenneth A. Lockridge | Settlement and Unsettlement in Early America: The Crisis of Political Legitimacy before the Revolution |
1979 | Charles Ritchie | Diplomacy: The Changing Scene |
1978 | Robert Rhodes James | Britain in Transition |
1977 | Robin W. Winks | The Relevance of Canadian History: U.S. and Imperial Perspectives |
1976 | C.P. Stacey | Mackenzie King and the Atlantic Triangle |