Jefferson Lecture
{{Short description|Honorary lecture series}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Jefferson Lecture
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| location = Washington, D.C.
| country = United States
| awarded_for = Distinguished intellectual achievement in humanities
| presenter = National Endowment for the Humanities
| year = 1972
| website = {{url|neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture}}
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The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities is an honorary lecture series established in 1972 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). According to the NEH, the Lecture is "the highest honor the federal government confers for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."[http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture Jefferson Lecture] at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).
History of the Jefferson Lecture
The Jefferson Lecturer is selected each year by the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member citizen advisory board of the NEH. The honoree delivers a lecture in Washington, D.C., generally in conjunction with the spring meeting of the council, and receives an honorarium of $10,000. The stated purpose of the honor is to recognize "an individual who has made significant scholarly contributions in the humanities and who has the ability to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities in a broadly appealing way."
The first Jefferson Lecturer, in 1972, was Lionel Trilling. He spoke on "Mind in the Modern World." Among other things, Trilling suggested that humanism had become the basis for social improvement, rather than science and the scientific method as has been predicted by Thomas Jefferson, the Lectures' namesake.Alvin Krebs and Robert McG. Thomas, [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/12/nyregion/notes-on-people-jeffersonian-theory-gets-new-lease-on-life.html "Notes on People; Jeffersonian Theory Gets New Lease on Life,"] The New York Times, May 12, 1981. Ten years later, Gerald Holton, the first scientist invited to deliver the lecture, drew attention for responding to Trilling, proposing that Jefferson's vision of science as a force for social improvement was still viable, opining that there had been a "relocation of the center of gravity" of scientific inquiry toward solving society's important problems, and cautioning that science education had to be improved dramatically or only a small "technological elite" would be equipped to take part in self-government.[https://archive.today/20121211143912/http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article.aspx?ref=226614 "Holton, in Jefferson Lecture, Criticizes Science Education,"] Harvard Crimson, May 15, 1981.
The selection of the 2000 Jefferson Lecturer led to a spate of controversy. The initial selection was President Bill Clinton. William R. Ferris, chairman of the NEH, said that his intent was to establish a new tradition for every president to deliver a Jefferson Lecture during his or her presidency, and that this was consistent with the NEH's broader effort to increase public awareness of the humanities. However, some scholars and political opponents objected that the choice of Clinton represented an inappropriate and unprecedented politicization of the NEH. The heads of the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Humanities Alliance expressed concerns about introducing political considerations into the selection, while William J. Bennett, a conservative Republican and former chairman of the NEH under President Ronald Reagan, charged that the proposal was an example of how Clinton had "corrupted all of those around him."Irvin Molotsky, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/21/us/choice-of-clinton-to-give-humanities-lecture-meets-resistance.html "Choice of Clinton to Give Humanities Lecture Meets Resistance," ] The New York Times, September 21, 1999. In the wake of the controversy, President Clinton declined the honor; a White House spokesperson said the President "didn't want the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities to be called into question."[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E3DC173FF931A1575AC0A96F958260 "National News Briefs; Clinton Declines Offer To Give Scholarly Talk,"] The New York Times, September 22, 1999.
Ultimately the 2000 honor went to historian James M. McPherson, whose lecture turned out to be very popular. Subsequently, the NEH revised the criteria for the award to place more emphasis on speaking skills and public appeal.Ron Southwick, [http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i06/06a03001.htm "NEH Wants Jefferson Lectures to Have More Public Appeal,"] Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2000.
The next Jefferson Lecture, by playwright Arthur Miller, again led to attacks from conservativesBruce Craig, "Arthur Miller's Jefferson Lecture Stirs Controversy," in [http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2001may/ncc.html "Capital Commentary"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122153656/http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2001may/ncc.html |date=2008-11-22 }}, OAH Newsletter
Recent Jefferson Lecturers have included journalist/author Tom Wolfe;David Epstein, [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/11/wolfe "A Speech in Full,"] Inside Higher Ed, May 11, 2006. Straussian conservative political philosopher Harvey Mansfield;Philip Kennicott, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050802282.html "A Strauss Primer, With Glossy Mansfield Finish,"] The Washington Post, May 9, 2007. and novelist John Updike, who, in a nod to the NEH's [http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/ Picturing America] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123084231/https://picturingamerica.neh.gov/ |date=2016-11-23 }} arts initiative, devoted his 2008 lecture to the subject of American art.Jennifer Howard, [http://chronicle.com/news/article/4541/in-jefferson-lecture-updike-says-american-art-is-known-by-its-insecurity "In Jefferson Lecture, Updike Says American Art Is Known by Its Insecurity,"] Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008.Jay Tolson,[https://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/05/23/john-updike-on-american-art.html "John Updike on American Art,"] U.S. News & World Report, May 23, 2008. In his 2009 lecture, bioethicist and self-described "humanist" Leon Kass expressed his view that science has become separated from its humanistic origins, and the humanities have lost their connection to metaphysical and theological concerns.Serena Golden, [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/22/kass "Tough Love for the Humanities"], Inside Higher Ed, May 22, 2009 (retrieved May 22, 2009).
In 2013 the NEH went in a different direction, selecting film director Martin Scorsese. He was the first filmmaker chosen for the honor, and he spoke on "the evolution of his films, the art of storytelling, and the inspiration he draws from the humanities".Dave Itzkoff, [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/hes-talking-to-you-scorsese-to-give-jefferson-lecture-for-national-endowment-for-the-humanities/ "He's Talking to You: Scorsese to Give Jefferson Lecture for National Endowment for the Humanities"], The New York Times, February 19, 2013. In 2014 the Jefferson Lecturer was author Walter Isaacson,Chris Waddington, [http://www.nola.com/celebrities/index.ssf/2014/01/best-selling_biographer_walter.html "Best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson will deliver prestigious Jefferson Lecture in 2014"], Times-Picayune, January 28, 2014. and the 2015 honoree was playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith.Jennifer Schuessler, [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/anna-deavere-smith-to-deliver-jefferson-lecture/?_r=0 "Anna Deavere Smith to Deliver Jefferson Lecture"], The New York Times, February 19, 2015. As part of the NEH's celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 2016, it selected documentarian Ken Burns to deliver the lecture. The 2017 lecturer was University of Chicago philosophy and law professor Martha Nussbaum, who delivered her lecture, entitled "Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame", on May 1, 2017.
Publications based on Jefferson Lectures
A number of the Jefferson Lectures have led to books, including Holton's The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens,Gerald Holton, The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press 1986), {{ISBN|0-521-27243-2}}. John Hope Franklin's Racial Equality in America,John Hope Franklin, Racial Equality in America (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), {{ISBN|0-8262-0912-2}} . Henry Louis Gates' The Trials of Phillis WheatleyHenry Louis Gates, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (Basic Civitas Books, 2003), {{ISBN|0-465-02729-6}} and Jaroslav Pelikan's The Vindication of Tradition.Jaroslav Pelikan, The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), {{ISBN|0-300-03638-8}}. Updike's 2008 lecture was included in his posthumous 2012 collection Always Looking.Carl Dixon, [http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/a-critic-keeping-it-surreal-219248.html "A critic keeping it surreal"], Irish Examiner, January 11, 2013.
Bernard Lewis' 1990 lecture on "Western Civilization: A View from the East" was revised and reprinted in The Atlantic Monthly under the title "The Roots of Muslim Rage".Bernard Lewis, [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199009/muslim-rage "The Roots of Muslim Rage,"] The Atlantic Monthly, September 1990. According to one source, Lewis' lecture (and the subsequent article) first introduced the term "Islamic fundamentalism" to North America.Amber Haque, "Islamophobia in North America: Confronting the Menace," in Barry van Driel, ed., Confronting Islamophobia in Educational Practice (Trentham Books, 2004), {{ISBN|1-85856-340-2}}, p.6, [https://books.google.com/books?id=TgBzHEQl8oAC&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0#PPA6,M1 excerpt available online] at Google Books.
List of Jefferson Lecturers
The following table lists the Jefferson Lecturers and the titles of their lectures.
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| 1972 || Lionel Trilling || "Mind in the Modern World"
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| 1973 || Erik Erikson || "Dimensions of a New Identity"
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| 1974 || Robert Penn Warren || "Poetry and Democracy"
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| 1975 || Paul A. Freund || "Liberty: The Great Disorder of Speech"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3761 |title=The Great Disorder of Speech |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1975-04-30 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Freund |first1=Paul A. }}
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| 1976 || John Hope Franklin || "Racial Equality in America"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3760 |title=Racial Equality in America |year=1976 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Franklin |first1=John Hope }}
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| 1977 || Saul Bellow || "The Writer and His Country Look Each Other Over"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3754 |title=The Writer and His Country Look Each Other Over |year=1977 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Bellow |first1=Saul }}
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| 1978 || C. Vann Woodward || "The European Vision of America"
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| 1979 || Edward Shils || "Render Unto Caesar: Government, Society, and Universities in their Reciprocal Rights and Duties"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3778 |title=Government and the Universities in the United States |year=1979 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Shils |first1=Edward }}
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| 1980 || Barbara Tuchman || "Mankind's Better Moments"[https://web.archive.org/web/20200419021327/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AAoUIJ2YgxKgJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fneh.dspacedirect.org%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F11215%2F3421%2FLIB_09_1980_01_02-public.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1%26isAllowed%3Dy A Closer Mirror Barbara Tuchman] - NEH Digital Repository{{cite journal
| date = September 1980
| title = Mankind's Better Moments
| last = Tuchman
| first = Barbara W.
| author-link = Barbara Tuchman
| publisher = Phi Beta Kappa Society
| journal = American Scholar
| volume = 49
| issue = 4
| pages = 449–463
| jstor = 40256002
| issn = 0003-0937
| quote = Autumn 1980
}}
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| 1981 || Gerald Holton || "Where is Science Taking Us?"
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| 1982 || Emily Vermeule || "Greeks and Barbarians: The Classical Experience in the Larger World"
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| 1983 || Jaroslav Pelikan || "The Vindication of Tradition"
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| 1984 || Sidney Hook || "Education in Defense of a Free Society"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3764 |title=Education in Defense of a Free Society |year=1984 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Hook |first1=Sidney }}
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| 1985 || Cleanth Brooks || "Literature in a Technological Age"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3756 |title=Literature in a Technological Age |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1985-05-18 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Brooks |first1=Cleanth }}
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| 1986 || Leszek Kołakowski || "The Idolatry of Politics"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3767 |title=The Idolatry of Politics |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1986-05-07 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Kolakowski |first1=Leszek }}
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| 1987 || Forrest McDonald || "The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3771 |title=The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1987-05-06 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=McDonald |first1=Forrest }}
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| 1988 || Robert Nisbet || "The Present Age and the State of Community"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3775 |title=The Present Age and the State of Community |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1988-05-23 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Nisbet |first1=Robert }}
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| 1989 || Walker Percy || "The Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind"{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?7788-1/san-andreas-fault-modern-mind|title=The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind | C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org|access-date=2020-04-19}}[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/159052 Walker Percy, "The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009145433/http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/159052 |date=2012-10-09 }}, C-Span Video, Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2010-04-01.{{Cite web|url=https://manwithoutqualities.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/9204130568.pdf|title=Patrick Samway, SJ overviews Percy's lifelong concern with science|access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|author=Rob Chodat (Boston University) |url=https://nonsite.org/article/the-american-evasion-of-pragmatism-souls-science-and-the-case-of-walker-percy |title=The American Evasion of Pragmatism: Souls, Science, and The Case of Walker Percy |publisher=nonsite.org |date=2011-10-14 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://manwithoutqualities.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/doc.pdf|title=amended transcript of the lecture|access-date=2020-04-19}}
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| 1990 || Bernard Lewis || "Western Civilization: A View from the East"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3768 |title=Western Civilization: A View from the East |year=1990 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Lewis |first1=Bernard }}
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| 1991 || Gertrude Himmelfarb || "Of Heroes, Villains and Valets"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3763 |title=Of Heroes, {{sic|Vill|ians|nolink=y}}, and Valets |year=1991 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Himmelfarb |first1=Gertrude }}
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| 1992 || Bernard Knox || "The Oldest Dead White European Males"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3752 |title=1992 Jefferson Lecture with Bernard Knox scrapbook |year=1992 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}
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| 1993 || Robert Conquest || "History, Humanity and Truth"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3758 |title=History, Humanity, and Truth |year=1993 |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Conquest |first1=Robert }}
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| 1994 || Gwendolyn Brooks || "Family Pictures"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3475 |title=Photographs from Twenty-third Jefferson Lecture with Gwendolyn Brooks |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date= May 1994|access-date=2020-04-19}}
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| 1995 || Vincent Scully || "The Architecture of Community"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3777 |title=The Architecture of Community |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1995-05-15 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Scully |first1=Vincent }}
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| 1996 || Toni Morrison || "The Future of Time"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3774 |title=The Future of Time: Literature and Diminished Expectations |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1996-03-25 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Morrison |first1=Toni }}
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| 1997 || Stephen Toulmin || "A Dissenter's Story"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3780 |title=A Dissenter's Story |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1997-04-24 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Toulmin |first1=Stephen }}
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| 1998 || Bernard Bailyn || "To Begin the World Anew: Politics and the Creative Imagination"{{cite web |title=To Begin the World Anew (Bernard Bailyn) |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/1998-03-23 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=1998-03-23}}
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| 1999 || Caroline Walker Bynum || "Shape and Story: Some Thoughts About Werewolves"{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3757 |title=Shape and Story: Some Thoughts About Werewolves |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1999-01-04 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Bynum |first1=Caroline Walker }}
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| 2000 || James M. McPherson || "'For a Vast Future Also': Lincoln and the Millennium"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/james-mcpherson-biography |title=James McPherson |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2000-03-27 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3772 |title=For a Vast Future Also, Lincoln and the New Millenium |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2000-03-27 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=McPherson |first1=James M. }}{{cite web |title=Civil War Historian James M. McPherson Named the 2000 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2000-01-11 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2000-01-11}}
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| 2001 || Arthur Miller || "On Politics and the Art of Acting"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/arthur-miller-biography |title=Arthur Miller |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2001-03-26 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/11215/3773/LIB40_002-public.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419014510/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A1thXI5b2qUkJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fneh.dspacedirect.org%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F11215%2F3773%2FLIB40_002-public.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-19|title="On Politics and the Art of Acting" by Arthur Miller (@ 2001 Arthur Miller) The 30th Jefferson Lecture in the Humaniti|date=2020-04-19|access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite book|title=On politics and the art of acting (Book, 2001) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |oclc = 47665409}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3773 |title=On Politics and the Art of Acting |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2001-03-26 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Miller |first1=Arthur }}{{cite web |title=Playwright Arthur Miller Named the 2001 NEH Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2001-01-04https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2001-01-04 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |date=2001-01-04}}
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| 2002 || Henry Louis Gates, Jr. || "Mr. Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/henry-louis-gates-jr-biography |title=Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3762 |title=Mister Jefferson and the Trials of Phillis Wheatley |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Named the 2002 NEH Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2001-12-20 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2001-12-20}}
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| 2003 || David McCullough || "The Course of Human Events"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/david-mccullough-biography |title=David McCullough |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1944-08-18 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLy1Dm_coCkC |title=The Course of Human Events: The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |author= David McCullough |publisher=Simon and Schuster |via=Google Books |date=2009-12-01 |isbn=9781439190012 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3770 |title=The Course of Human Events |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=Historian and Author David McCullough to Deliver the 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2003-03-11 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2003-03-11}}
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| 2004 || Helen Vendler || "The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/helen-vendler-biography |title=Helen Vendler |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2004-04-18 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3782 |title=The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=Helen Vendler, Renowned Author, Scholar, and Poetry Critic, to Deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2004-03-11 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2004-03-11}}
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| 2005 || Donald Kagan || "In Defense of History"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/donald-kagan-biography |title=Donald Kagan |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2016-06-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2005/05/13/yale-historian-donald-kagan-mixing-the-old-and-the-neo/d9902732-30b0-44e6-ac9c-67a5f1f80dcd/ |title=Yale Historian Donald Kagan, Mixing the Old And the Neo |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2005-05-13 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/12019 |title=Donald Kagan: In Defense of History |publisher=History News Network |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web
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| 2006 || Tom Wolfe || "The Human Beast"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/tom-wolfe-biography |title=Tom Wolfe |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3494 |title=Invitation to Thirty-fifth Jefferson Lecture with Tom Wolfe |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2006-05-10 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3783 |title=The Human Beast |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=Tom Wolfe, Noted American Author and Journalist, to Deliver the 2006 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2006-02-23 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2006-02-23}}
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| 2007 || Harvey Mansfield || "How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/harvey-mansfield-biography |title=Harvey Mansfield |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2016-06-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3769 |title=How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=Harvey Mansfield, Noted American Author and Political Theorist, to Deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2007-03-22 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2007-03-22}}
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| 2008 || John Updike || "The Clarity of Things: What Is American about American Art"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/john-updike-biography |title=John Updike |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2016-06-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3781 |title=The Clarity of Things: What is American about American Art? |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2008-05-22 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Updike |first1=John }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?199132-1/american-art|title=American Art | C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org|access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=John Updike to Deliver 2008 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2008-03-18 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2008-03-18}}
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| 2009 || Leon Kass || "'Looking for an Honest Man': Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/leon-kass-biography |title=Leon Kass |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2016-06-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3766 |title=Looking for an Honest Man: Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2009-05-22 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Kass |first1=Leon R. }}{{cite web |title=Leon Kass, Noted Humanities Scholar and Bioethicist, to Deliver the 2009 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2009-03-23 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |date=2009-03-23}}
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| 2010 || Jonathan Spence || "When Minds Met: China and the West in the Seventeenth Century"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/jonathan-spence-biography |title=Jonathan Spence |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=1936-08-11 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3779 |title=When Minds Met: China and the West in the Seventeenth Century |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2010-05-20 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Spence |first1=Jonathan }}{{cite web |title=Jonathan Spence Named 39th Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2010-03-08 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2010-03-08}}
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| 2011 || Drew Gilpin Faust || "Telling War Stories: Reflections of a Civil War Historian"[http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20110321.html "Drew Gilpin Faust named 40th Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110327235316/http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20110321.html |date=2011-03-27 }}, National Endowment for the Humanities, March 21, 2011.Jacqueline Trescott, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/drew-gilpin-faust-the-prize-winning-historian-and-harvard-president-will-deliver-annual-jefferson-lecture/2011/03/21/ABrSTB7_blog.html "Drew Gilpin Faust, the prize-winning historian and Harvard president, will deliver annual Jefferson Lecture"], The Washington Post, March 21, 2011.{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/drew-gilpin-faust-biography |title=Drew Gilpin Faust |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoY3R4vaKDo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018110216/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoY3R4vaKDo&list=UUPQ3xb0ky2WsNM_U1FKjrNQ&index=10&feature=plcp |archive-date=2012-10-18 |url-status=dead|title=2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Drew Gilpin Faust |publisher=YouTube |date=2011-05-11 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3759 |title=Telling War Stories: Reflections of a Civil War Historian |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}
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| 2012 || Wendell Berry || "It All Turns on Affection" [http://www.neh.gov/news/2012-jefferson-lecture-wendell-berry "2012 Jefferson Lecture with Wendell Berry"], NEH.gov, April 25, 2012.Christopher Orlet, [http://spectator.org/35591_affections-wendell-berry/ "The Affections of Wendell Berry"], The American Spectator, May 3, 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-biography |title=Wendell E. Berry |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2016-06-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3755 |title=It All Turns on Affection |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2012-04-23 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Berry |first1=Wendell E. }}{{cite web |title=Wendell E. Berry named 41st Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2012-02-06 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2012-02-06}}
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| 2013 || Martin Scorsese || "Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema"[https://www.npr.org/2013/05/07/181692145/scorsese-talks-the-language-of-cinema "Scorsese Talks 'The Language Of Cinema'"], NPR, May 7, 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martin-scorsese-biography |title=Martin Scorsese |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2016-06-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ3YGZ8Xs_E |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/sQ3YGZ8Xs_E |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Martin Scorsese's 2013 Jefferson Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |date=2 August 2013 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/3776 |title=Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2013-04-01 |access-date=2020-04-19|last1=Scorsese |first1=Martin }}{{cite web |title=Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese named 42nd Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2013-02-19 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2013-02-19}}
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| 2014 || Walter Isaacson || "The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/walter-isaacson-biography |title=Walter Isaacson |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrD3pWrcOBg |url-status=dead |title=2014 Jefferson Lecture: Walter Isaacson, The Intersection of the Humanities & the Sciences |publisher=YouTube |date=2023-03-13 |access-date=2023-06-29 |archive-date=2023-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629161455/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrD3pWrcOBg }}{{cite web|url=https://neh.dspacedirect.org/handle/11215/4098 |title=Created Equal reception invitation |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2014-02-20 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web |title=Walter Isaacson to deliver 43rd Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2014-01-28 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2014-01-28}}
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| 2015 || Anna Deavere Smith || "On the Road: A Search for American Character"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/anna-deavere-smith-biography |title=Anna Deavere Smith |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIe3dtxrak |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/tqIe3dtxrak |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=2015 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities: Anna Deavere Smith |publisher=YouTube |date=2019-10-10 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=Anna Deavere Smith to deliver 44th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2015-02-19 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2015-02-19}}
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| 2016 || Ken Burns || Race in America (subject; no title announced)Lorne Manly, [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/ken-burns-to-discuss-race-in-jefferson-lecture/?_r=0 "Ken Burns to Discuss Race in Jefferson Lecture"], The New York Times, January 18, 2016.{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/ken-burns-biography |title=Ken Burns |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPiSl_ICCKc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/kPiSl_ICCKc |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=2016 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Ken Burns |publisher=YouTube |date=2019-08-28 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=Ken Burns Named the 2016 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2016-01-19 |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29 |date=2016-01-20}}
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| 2017 || Martha Nussbaum || "Powerlessness and the Politics of Blame"[https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/01/19/martha-nussbaum-named-jefferson-lecturer "Martha Nussbaum Named Jefferson Lecturer"], Inside Higher Ed, January 19, 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/martha-nussbaum-biography |title=Martha C. Nussbaum |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZbQuqAQCI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/PWZbQuqAQCI |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=2017 Jefferson Lecture: NEH Chairman William Adams Interviews Martha Nussbaum |publisher=YouTube |date=2017-03-21 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=2017 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Martha C. Nussbaum |url=https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1653654471312201 |website=Facebook |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en}}
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|2018
|"To See the Suffering: The Humanities Have What Medicine Needs"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/news/dr-rita-charon-named-2018-jefferson-lecturer-humanities|title=Dr. Rita Charon Named the 2018 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities|website=National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)|language=en|access-date=2018-10-16}}{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/award/drritacharon |title=Dr. Rita Charon |publisher= National Endowment for the Humanities |date=2018-09-04 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yI0rdQEAj8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/7yI0rdQEAj8 |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Dr. Rita Charon |publisher=YouTube |date=2018-10-18 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cbignore}}
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| 2019 || Columba Stewart || "Cultural Heritage Present and Future: A Benedictine Monk's Long View"[https://www.neh.gov/news/father-columba-stewart-named-2019-jefferson-lecturer-humanities "Father Columba Stewart Named the 2019 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities"], NEH, July 18, 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kcZ50nn5M |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/s-kcZ50nn5M |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Father Columba Stewart |publisher=YouTube |date=2019-11-25 |access-date=2020-04-19}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=Father Columba Stewart |url=https://www.neh.gov/award/father-columba-stewart |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29}}
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| 2022 || Andrew Delbanco || "The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future"{{cite web|url=https://www.neh.gov/news/andrew-delbanco-named-2022-jefferson-lecturer-humanities|title=Andrew Delbanco Named the 2022 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities|website=neh.gov|publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities|date=July 14, 2022|access-date=October 9, 2022}}{{cite web |title=Andrew Delbanco |url=https://www.neh.gov/award/andrew-delbanco |website=National Endowment for the Humanities |access-date=2023-06-29}}{{cite web |title=2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCn6--R67l0 |website=YouTube |access-date=2023-06-29 |language=en |date=2022-12-08}}
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| 2023 || Ruth Simmons || "Facing History to Find a Better Future"{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtoninformer.com/ruth-simmons-to-deliver-jefferson-lecture-at-smithsonian-black-history-museum-next-month/|title=Ruth Simmons to Deliver Jefferson Lecture at Smithsonian Black History Museum Next Month|website=neh.gov|publisher=National Endowment for the Humanities|date=August 29, 2023|access-date=November 29, 2023}}{{Cite web |last=Greenberg |first=Susan H. |title=Ruth Simmons Delivers Stirring Tribute to the Humanities |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/09/27/ruth-simmons-delivers-stirring-tribute-humanities|date=September 27, 2023 |access-date=November 29, 2023|website=Inside Higher Ed |language=en}}
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