Professor Oberg talks about a newly acquired Thomas Jefferson letter to Benjamin Smith Barton. She tells the story of Jefferson's collecting of Native American language lists and how some of these lists were lost to robbers.
Awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in 2008, this lecture takes an anthropological look at the Soviet concept of "freedom" and how it differs from the US concept.
Frank Stewart talks about the economic developement in the Arab world.; Further Reading: International Journal of Middle East Studies. Vol. 19, No. 4 (Nov., 1987), pp. 473-490
Examining Vichy's collaboration through music and art, Fulcher discusses how the nationalist organization used Classical Greek art to build up the 3rd republic and de-naturalise Jews.
Tim Powell describes how the new Center (CNAIR) continues to steer the course set by Jefferson, specifically the work we do to preserve Native American languages, specifically by telling the story of Little Turtle and the Miami tribe.