Callahan Lecture
The Callahan Lecture series was established in 1964 in honor of the eminent historian James Morton Callahan, who served as Department Chair from 1902 to 1929, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1916 to 1929, and University Research Professor from 1929 to 1956. A student of Herbert Baxter Adams, Callahan received his Ph.D. from the John Hopkins University and is considered one of the founders of modern diplomatic history. He wrote numerous works, including The Alaska Purchase and Americo-Canadian Relations, American Foreign Policy in Mexican Relations, American Relations in the Pacific and Far East, 1784-1900, Cuba and International Relations: A Historical Study in American Diplomacy, and The Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy.
The Callahan Lecturers 1964 to 2005
1964 - Samuel Flagg Bemis, Yale University
1965 - Dexter Perkins, University of Rochester
1966 - Julian P. Boyd, Princeton University
1967 - Arthur Link, Princeton University
1968 - Roy Nichols, University of Pennsylvania
1969 - Bell I. Wiley, Emory University
1970 - John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago
1971 - Frank Freidel, Harvard University
1972 - James W. Silver, University of South Florida
1973 - Dean Rusk, University of Georgia
1974 - Walter Rundell, University of Maryland
1975 - Jack P. Greene, The Johns Hopkins University
1976 - Richard B. Morris, Columbia University
Merrill D. Peterson, University of Virginia
1977 - James B. Rhoads, Archivist of the United States
1978 - Dewey W. Grantham, Vanderbilt University
1979 - David F. Trask, The Historian, Department of State
1980 - Richard G. Hewlett, The Historian, U.S. Department of Energy
1981 - Robert F. Byrnes, Indiana University
1982 - Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Brooklyn College
1983 - Richard W. Leopold, Northwestern University
1984 - Philip D. Curtin, The Johns Hopkins University
1985 - Eric Foner, Columbia University
1986 - John L. Gaddis, Ohio University
1987 - Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
1988 - Jane De Hart-Mathews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1989 - Stanley Nider Katz, Princeton University
1990 - Paul Gaston, University of Virginia
1991 - Yvonne Haddad, University of Massachusetts
1992 - Rudolph Vecoli, University of Minnesota
1993 - David C. Lindberg, University of Wisconsin
1994 - Gabor S. Boritt, Gettysburg College
1995 - Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
1996 - Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Chief Historian, National Park Service
1997 - Paul Finkelman, Hamline University
1998 - John Edward Bodnar, Indiana University
1999 - Peter N. Stearns, Carnegie-Mellon University
2000 - Linda Grant DePauw, George Washington University
2001 - No Lecture in 2001
2002 - E.S. Atieno Odhiambo, Rice University
2003 - Joe William Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University
2004 - Mary Lindemann, Carnegie Mellon University
2005 - Niall Ferguson, Harvard University
2005 - Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
2005 - Dwight Billings, University of Kentucky
