Commonwealth Speakers:Presentations by Title


From The Little Red Schoolhouse. Image courtesy Jonathan Zimmerman.

The 1863 Gettysburg Civilians P
Patricia Anschuetz

African Arts of the Yoruba Diaspora F H P
Temujin Ekunfeo

African Song and Dance: Celebrating Everyone Everyday F H P
Kelly Armor

Alive to the Call: Women and History in Northeastern Pennsylvania L
Josephine Dunn

America the Philosophical L
Carlin Romano

American Indian Cultures in the 21st Century L
John Sanchez

Andy Warhol: Experimental Filmmaker L
Debra Miller

The Art of Jewish Papercutting F H L
Susan Leviton

Ballet: From Studio to Stage F L
Anna Drozdowski

A Banjo Pickin' Girl F H L P
Judy Marti

The Black Mozart: Joseph Boulogna Chevalier de Saint-Georges P
Charles Pettaway

Blacks and Jews on Stage and Screen L
Warren Hoffman

Bush, Obama, Energy and You L
Robert McMonagle

Can't Tell a Lie, Peach Cobbler Pie! F H L P
Linda Goss

Carpe Diem! Learn a Little Latin L
Ronnie Ancona

Celebrate Pennsylvania! A History in Story and Song F H P
Paula Purnell

Cheap 3-Minute Thrills: Darkrides and Funhouses as Genre L
Timothy Hufnagle

Chimeras & Frankenpets: Ethics Issues in Animal Biotechnology F L
Autumn Fiester

The City Lights of Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen L
Gerard Molyneaux

Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in Pennsylvania L
Robert Sandow

The End: Authorship, Nostalgia and the Beatles L
Kenneth Womack

Flash Fiction: What It Is & How to Write It H L
Kevin Grauke

Founding Friendship: The Washington-Madison Collaboration L
Stuart Leibiger

Frances Slocum: Child of Two Americas F H L
William Bachman

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Paradox of Leadership L
Roger Lane

From Page to Stage F H L
Carlyn Aquiline

Great Escapes! F H P
Denise Valentine

Healing African Dance F H L P
Angela Watson

Hex Signs and Himmelsbriefs: Pennsylvania Germans and the Paranormal F L
Candace Kintzer Perry

Housekeeping Out of Doors: Pennsylvania Women and Conservation L
Susan Rimby

In Their Midst L
A.M. Weaver

The Indians of Pennsylvania F L
Marshall Joseph Becker

Is the West Destined for a Clash of Civilizations with Islam? L
Douglas Penhallegon

Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement L
Barry Long

Jefferson's Daughters L
Catherine Kerrison

John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid L
John Quist

John Updike's Pennsylvania L
Frank Fitzpatrick

Lament for the Molly Maguires L
Philip Rosen

Lenape Foodways F H L
Susan McLellan Plaisted

Lenape Lifeways F H L
Carla and Allan Messinger

Lincoln and the Widow Bixby F H L
Judith Giesberg

The Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania L
Melinda Higgins Crawford

The Little Red Schoolhouse: An American Icon F L
Jonathan Zimmerman

Living the Tradition: Ballads for Now P
Bob Michel

Mary Magdalene As Disciple, Witness and Icon L
Anne McGuire

May I Have the Pleasure of this Dance? F H P
Jef Savage and Nancy Walker

The Messenger's Motives: How Media Work F L
Michael Dillon

Mexican Identity in the XXI Century F L P
Francisco Javier Hernandez Carbajal (aka) Brujo de la Mancha

Music and Dance of Colonial Philadelphia P
Paul Fehrenbach

The Music of World War II L
Phillip Atteberry

My Name is Oney Judge F
Diane Turner

My Own Backyard or Yours! Poetry to Create a Sense of Place F H P
Sandee Gertz Umbach

Northern Pennsylvania Stonewall History, Tradition & Restoration F H L
Ken Ely

Nursing in a Civil War Field Hospital L
Smadar Shtuhl

Only the Ball Was White F L
B.G. Kelley

Peaceable Kingdom? Pennsylvania’s Revolution & the People Who Made It L
George Boudreau

Pennsylvania Dutch, Holland Dutch: Two American Cultures L
Irwin Richman

Pennsylvania Environmental History: From Earth Day 1970 to Global Warming F L
Paul Rosier

The Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges L
William Donner

Pennsylvania German Music, Dance and Instruments H L P
Keith Brintzenhoff

Pennsylvania's Post Office Art of the New Deal L
David Lembeck

Pennsylvania, Simon Cameron and Lincoln's Presidential Election L
William Pencak

The Phillies and Their Place in Philadelphia Baseball History L
Rich Westcott

Photographers of the WPA F L
Selby Doughty

Rachel Carson, Pennsylvania and the Nature Discovery Treasure Chest F H L
Vivienne Shaffer

Reconstructing National Culture: African American Men, Women & Lynching L
Tsekani Browne

The REvolution of Nancy Drew F L
Michael Cornelius

Rosanna of the Amish: Fact and Fiction L
Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Saluting Camp William Penn L
Donald Scott

Sevdalinka: A Musical Tour of Bosnia F H L P
Mensura Berberovic

Shakespeare's Daughters F L
Ralph Leary

The Souls of Black Baseball: Barnstorming the Keystone State L
Bob Allen

The Spirit of Carnival F H P
Tracie Yorke

Steeltowns, Coalfields and the Unbroken Circle P
Tom Breiding

The Supreme Court in Times of Crisis L
Robert Langran

Teenie Harris’ Photographs and Black Pittsburgh: 1940-1980 F L
Laurence Glasco

Thaddeus Stevens: The Politics of Freedom L P
Steven Anderson

Ukrainian Immigration to the Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania L P
Paula Duda Holoviak

Wampums, Wigwams, Warpaths and Dvorak's New World Symphony F H L P
Karl Middleman

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? L
John Fea

Western Pennsylvania During the American Revolution F L
Daniel Barr

Writing in Place H L
Lori Jakiela

Key to Presentations
F Family/Younger Audiences
H Hands-on/Active Participation
L Lectures
P Performances
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