History on Broadway
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he C.V. Starr Center and the Department of Drama had the honor of hosting legendary musical theatre composer John Kander, librettist David Thompson and actor Forrest McClendon on the stage of Decker Theatre to discuss their recent musical, The Scottsboro Boys.Forrest McClendon conducted a Master Class for Drama majors in the afternoon. This session, part lecture, part question and answer, provided students insight into the life of a working actor, from the rigors of auditions to the process of creating a character. In the early evening, a lively onstage discussion was lead by Professor Michele Volansky and included a song performed by Mr. McClendon, accompanied by Stef Scaggiari. The evening concluded with a dinner in the Hynson Study Lounge where students had the opportunity to interact with the special guests.
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Adam Goodheart, the director of the C.V Starr Center for the American Experience, gave a talk at the Smithsonian Art Museum about his book 1861: The Civil War Awakening. Goodheart walked the audience through portions of his book with intriguing stories about the people of the Civil War era, including General E.E. Elsworth and ornery Union firefighters. -
In an illustrated talk, historian Peter H. Wood used Winslow Homer’s 1866 painting, Near Andersonville—one of the artist’s most striking, yet least-known works – to discuss the tumultuous final two years of the American Civil War.An emeritus Professor of History at Duke University, Wood was in residence at Washington College from April 23-30 as the Starr Center’s 2011 Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellow. He is the author/editor of six books, including Black Majority (Knopf, 1974), which set the stage for a new generation of scholarship on American slavery. -
Acclaimed historian Richard Beeman, Senior Fellow of the C.V Starr Center and the Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture, and winner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize, continued his four lecture series entitled “Inventing a Nation” with his third lecture exploring the founders of the Constitution, their religion, and the separation of church and state in America.
