Cara Rogers Stevens to Deliver Lecture on Thomas Jefferson Stevens will discuss her recent book on June 12 as part of the Office of Lifelong Learning’s Summer College program.
Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, will deliver a lecture at Washington and Lee University at 5:30 p.m. on June 12 in Stackhouse Theater, located in Elrod Commons.
The event, hosted by W&L’s Office of Lifelong Learning in partnership with the Rockbridge Historical Society, is free and open to the public.
Stevens’ research focuses on race and slavery in the Jeffersonian Age. In her lecture, she will discuss her recent book, “Thomas Jefferson and the Fight Against Slavery” (2024), which examines what Jefferson did — and did not — do to end slavery and bring equality to America. The book received the Herbert J. Storing Book Prize, was a finalist for the Center for Presidential History’s Book Prize, a runner-up for the Journal of the American Revolution’s Book of the Year award, and a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s George Washington Prize. Stevens’ work has also been published by the Journal of Southern History and American Political Thought.
Stevens’ lecture is part of the Office of Lifelong Learning’s Summer College program, America at 250: The Founding of an Independent Nation. Registration is required to attend additional Summer College programming, held June 12-15 on W&L’s campus.
About Summer College
Over the course of several days, W&L’s Office of Lifelong Learning will host insightful lectures and discussions about the legacy of the “Committee of Five” appointed by the Continental Congress in June 1776 to draft a Declaration of Independence. Speakers at the upcoming Summer College, held June 12-15, include:
- Brian Alexander, associate professor of politics at W&L
- Michael Berlin, visiting assistant professor of English at W&L
- David Cox, professor of history at Southern Virginia University
- Matthew Davis, director of W&L’s Institutional History Museum and Galleries
- Zachary Deibel, assistant professor of history at Virginia Military Institute
- Lucas Morel, the John K. Boardman Jr. Professor of Politics at W&L
- Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University
- Meaghan Walsh, the Louise C. Herreshoff Curatorial Fellow in American Art at W&L
- Eric Wilson, director of the Rockbridge Historical Society
A full schedule of events and registration information can be found online.
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