Robert C. Baron Lectures

The Robert C. Baron Lecture invites a distinguished AAS member who has written a seminal work of history to reflect on the book’s impact on scholarship and society in the years since its appearance. The lecture was endowed to honor Robert C. Baron (1934-2026), founder and president of Fulcrum Publishing and chairman of the AAS council from 1993-2003.

Event Date Leaders / Presenters Title Video
Philip Joseph Deloria The Baron Lecture with Philip Deloria
Peter Hutchins Wood I Am So Tired of Waiting, Aren’t You?: Revisiting "Black Majority" Yes
Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Yes
Nell Irvin Painter Sojourner Truth Was A New Yorker, and She Didn’t Say That Yes
Jacqueline Jones Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: A Retrospective Yes
James Hart Merrell The Indians’ New World Revisited Yes
Alan S. Taylor Reconsidering William Cooper's Town Yes
Mary Beth Norton Reflections on Gender and Politics in Anglo-America; or, an Intellectual Journey Encompassing Four Decades and Four Books
Robert A. Gross Minutemen Revisited
Eric Foner Revisiting America’s Unfinished Revolution Yes
Linda K. Kerber Women of the Republic
Richard L. Bushman The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities Yes
Patricia Nelson Limerick The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Yes
John P. Demos The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
William W. Freehling Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Yes
William S. McFeely Grant: A Biography
Martin E. Marty Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
Leon F. Litwack Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Bernard Bailyn The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson Yes