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News Archives - 2005

September 24, 2005

The 2005 Christensen Symposium

September 26 & 27 - Dr. Garry Wills, Cultural Historian & Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

Monday, Sept. 26
7 p.m.—“Religion and the American Enlightenment”

Tuesday, Sept. 27

11 a.m.—“The First Amendment, the Strength of Religion”

Garry Wills, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor and cultural historian at Northwestern University whose many books include penetrating studies of George Washington, Richard Nixon, the Kennedy family, Ronald Reagan, St. Augustine, Abraham Lincoln, and religion in America. His prizes include the Merle Curtis Award of the American Historical Association, the National Book Critics Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and an honorary doctorate from the College of the Holy Cross.

For information on the entire 2005-2006 Convocation series, click here.