- Past Goodman Lectures
| Year | Lecturer | Lecture Title |
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2025 |
Martha S. Jones Dennis M. Pilon Jan-Werner |
“A Beacon of Democracy: The Life and Death of a National Myth” “Canada, the Indeterminate Democracy” “The Dilemmas of Democratic Self-defense” |
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2024 |
Allan Greer |
"Canada in the Age of Rum" |
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2023 |
Caroline Elkins |
"Empire on Trial: Mau Mau and the High Court of Justice" |
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2022 |
Ned Blackhawk |
"On Violence and the Limits of Settler Colonialism" |
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2021 |
Bill Waiser |
"From Resistance to Reconciliation" |
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2019 |
Philippa Levine |
"All Will Be Revealed: The Politics of Nakedness and the Dilemma of British Morality" |
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2018 |
Elaine Tyler May | "State of Fear: How the Quest for Security has Eroded Democracy" |
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2017 |
Charlotte Gray | "The Past is Present: Popular History and National Consciousness" |
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2016 |
Mark Ormrod | "Talking Politics in Medieval England: News, Views, Secrets, and Lies, 1215-1485" |
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2015 |
Stephanie McCurry | "Her War: Marriage, Gender and the State in the American Civil War" |
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2014 |
Ian MacKay | "The Promise and the Pitfalls of Vimy Ridge: The Contested Terrain of Remembrance in Interwar Canada" |
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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" |
