250th Birthday Celebration, Sept. 6, 2007
Sept. 6, 2007, is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette. Birthday festivities will include the dedication of a Pennsylvania historical marker to commemorate the College founding meeting held in December 1824, an all-College dinner on the Quad, an encampment by Revolutionary War reenactors, the arrival by carriage of the Marquis de Lafayette, carriage rides around the Quad, music and dance, and much more. Headlining the event will be Lloyd Kramer, award-winning author of Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolution. He will present “Lafayette’s Historical Legacy: Politics, Culture, and the Modern World,” which is the John L. Hatfield ’67 Lecture hosted by Friends of Skillman Library.
Lloyd Kramer
John L. Hatfield ’67 Lecture “Lafayette’s Historical Legacy: Politics, Culture, and the Modern World,” 4:10 p.m., Williams Center for the Arts
Lloyd Kramer’s research and teaching focus on modern European history with an emphasis on nineteenth-century France. He is the Dean E. Smith Distinguished Term Professor of History and chair of the history department at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has taught  since 1986.
Kramer is the author of Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), which received the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the American Society for French Historical Studies and the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
His other publications include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 (1988), and Nationalism: Political Cultures in Europe and America, 1775-1865 (1998). He is also co-author, with R. R. Palmer and Joel Colton, of A History of the Modern World, 10th edition (2007) and, co-editor with Sarah Maza, of A Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002).
He received a Ph.D. in European intellectual history from Cornell University, an M.A. in history at Boston College, and a B.A. from Maryville College.
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