Robert C. Baron Lectures

The Robert C. Baron Lecture allows a distinguished AAS member who has written a seminal work of history to reflect on the book’s impact on scholarship and society in the years since its appearance. The lecture was endowed to honor Robert C. Baron, founder and president of Fulcrum Publishing and chairman of the AAS council from 1993-2003.

Year Presenter or Co-leaders Title Video
2024 Jack N. Rakove Original Meanings
2023 Nell Irvin Painter Sojourner Truth Was A New Yorker, and She Didn’t Say That Yes
2022 Jacqueline Jones Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: A Retrospective Yes
2021 James Hart Merrell The Indians’ New World Revisited Yes
2020 Alan S. Taylor Reconsidering William Cooper's Town Yes
2018 Mary Beth Norton Reflections on Gender and Politics in Anglo-America; or, an Intellectual Journey Encompassing Four Decades and Four Books
2017 Robert A. Gross Minutemen Revisited
2016 Eric Foner Revisiting America’s Unfinished Revolution Yes
2015 Linda K. Kerber Women of the Republic
2013 Richard L. Bushman The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities Yes
2012 Patricia Nelson Limerick The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Yes
2011 John P. Demos The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
2010 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
2009 William W. Freehling Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
2008 David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Yes
2007 William S. McFeely Grant: A Biography
2006 Martin E. Marty Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America
2005 Leon F. Litwack Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
2004 Bernard Bailyn The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson Yes