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On May 22, 2008, John Updike delivered the 37th Jefferson
Lecture in the Humanities at the Warner Theatre in Washington,
D.C. The Jefferson Lecture was established in 1972
as the highest honor the federal government bestows for
distinguished intellectual and public achievement in the
humanities.
Past Jefferson Lecturers include Harvey Mansfield, Tom
Wolfe, Donald Kagan, Helen Vendler, David McCullough, Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Caroline
Walker Bynum, Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Toulmin, Toni Morrison,
Vincent Scully, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Knox, Walker Percy,
Cleanth Brooks, Sydney Hook, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow,
John Hope Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Erik Erikson, and
Lionel Trilling.
The
online version of Humanities magazine features interviews
with and profiles of the following Jefferson Lecturers:
Caroline
Walker Bynum, Bernard
Bailyn, and Stephen
Toulmin. The text of the lectures given by Caroline
Walker Bynum and Bernard
Bailyn are also available. NEH's Web site offers features
about the following Jefferson Lecturers: James
McPherson, Arthur Miller,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
David McCullough,
Helen Vendler, Donald
Kagan, Tom Wolfe,
and Harvey Mansfield.
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