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Baltimore Speakers Series
2016-2017
On Tuesday, March 22, the Baltimore Speakers Series presented by Stevenson University announced the speakers for its 2016-2017 season.
Marking its 13th season, the series offers seven evenings of diverse
opinions and world perspectives on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall.
The 2016-2017 Baltimore Speakers Series will open on Sept. 27 with
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, followed by former Prime
Minister of Israel Ehud Barak on Oct. 25. Additional speakers include
Academy-award-winning actress Rita Moreno (Nov. 15); Monty
Python co-founder John Cleese (Jan. 17, 2017); former chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey (Feb. 21, 2017); and
broadcast journalist Ted Koppel (March 21, 2017). A panel discussion
on Racism & Reconciliation in America with former NPR host Michele
Norris; Wall Street Journal columnist and author Jason Riley; and
Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will
close the season on April 25, 2017.
Public History Students Contribute to
Vietnam Veteran “Salute”
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Since 2014, students and faculty from Stevenson University’s Public History program have aided Maryland Public Television (MPT) in what the station dubbed the largest initiative in its history. Throughout this spring and
summer, “MPT Salutes Vietnam Veterans” honored men and women who
served in the Vietnam War with a series of programs and events, including
“Maryland Vietnam War Stories,” a three-hour documentary aired in three
parts from May 24-26.
To preview the documentary and to help raise money for the project, MPT
aired its “Vietnam Initiative Preview” on April 21. The program included
an interview with Glenn Johnston Ph.D., Chair of Stevenson’s Public
History program and the University’s Archivist. Johnston, along with 34
Public History majors and one program alumnus, spearheaded the effort
to locate and provide images of the 192 Maryland natives who are not
represented with photos in Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s “Wall of
Faces”—an online database commemorating service men and women killed
in action. Since Stevenson began its involvement, the team has unearthed
images for 122 of those 192 individuals through historical research and
public engagement.
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