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On March 27, 2000, Princeton history professor James McPherson delivers the 29th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall. The Jefferson Lecture was established in 1972 as
the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual and public achievement in the
humanities. More information about the lecture and McPherson's selection is available
here.
Past Jefferson Lecturers include 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 speeches given by Caroline Walker Bynum, and Bernard Bailyn is also available.
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