News Archives - 2005
The 2005 Christensen Symposium
September
26 & 27 - Dr. Garry Wills, Cultural Historian & Pulitzer Prize-winning
Author
Monday, Sept. 26
7 p.m.—“Religion and the American Enlightenment”
Tuesday, Sept. 27
11 a.m.—“The First Amendment, the Strength of Religion”
Garry Wills, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor and cultural historian at Northwestern University whose many books include penetrating studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan, St. Augustine, Abraham Lincoln, and religion in America. His prizes include the Merle Curtis Award of the American Historical Association, the National Book Critics Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.
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