History

Douglas V. LePan (1966-1967)

Feb 16, 1967

“Responsibility and Revolt” Douglas V. LePan was a professor of literature and the principal of University College at the University of Toronto. He was also a poet, novelist, and diplomat. He studied at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, and Oxford University. [...]

Jaroslav J. Pelikan (1966-1967)

Jan 23, 1967

“The Irony of Reformation” Jaroslav J. Pelikan was Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, where he worked on the history of Christianity and Christian theology. He studied at Concordia Seminary and received his PhD from the University of [...]

Frank H. Underhill (1966-1967)

Jan 16, 1967

“Canadian Intellectuals and Canadian National Politics, 1867-1967” Frank H. Underhill was a writer and radio commentator, as well as a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He was a noted Canadian social democrat and public intellectual. Underhill was the [...]

E.H. Brookes (1965-1966)

Oct 11, 1965

“Problems of African Universities South of the Sahara” Lawrence C.B. Gower was the Law Commissioner for Great Britain and the former Dean of Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He wrote The Principles of Modern Company Law (1954). Gower studied law at University [...]

Daniel Bell (1964-1965)

Jan 19, 1965

“The History of the Idea of the Future” Dr. Daniel Bell was professor of sociology at Columbia University. He was also the labour editor of Fortune Magazine. After completing graduate school at the City College of New York and Columbia, he worked at the weekly The New [...]

Herbert J. Muller (1963-1964)

Jan 30, 1964

Dr. Herbert J. Muller was an American historian, government official, and Distinguished Service Professor of English and Government at Indiana University, where he joined the faculty in 1956. Prior to this, he taught at Cornell, where he completed his undergraduate and [...]

S.E. Morison (1955-1956)

Jan 30, 1956

“Freedom in Contemporary Society” Samuel Eliot Morison was professor of history at Harvard University. During World War I he served as a private in the US Army. He also served as the American Delegate on the Baltic Commission of the Paris Peace Conference until June 17, [...]

Herbert Butterfield (1951-1952)

Jan 31, 1952

“Liberty in the Modern World” Herbert Butterfield was elected Chair in Modern History at Cambridge University in 1944 after 20 years as a fellow at Peterhouse College.. He taught modern history, especially the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and authored a number of [...]