Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium)

Center for Presidential History Lecture, By Amy Greenberg, Penn State University: While the Woman’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was […]

Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX

Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation’s special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century […]