David T. Konig Lecture Series in American Legal History and Early American History

2025 David T. Konig Lecture: Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University

David T. Konig is a long-serving member of the History Department and the Law School faculty. These lectures showcase speakers working in Professor Konig's fields of American legal history and early American history.

Joanne B. Freeman gave the Annual David T. Konig Lecture on Thursday, Marcy 27, 2025 from 4-6pm in Moot Court Room.

        Joanne B. Freeman

 

Previous Lectures: David Konig T. Lecture Series

"The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & The Road to Civil War " (2025)

Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University, author of The Field of Blood (2018)

Joanne B. Freeman

"Writing Constitutional History in Perilous Times " (2024)

Jack N. Rakove, Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus Stanford University, Pulitzer prize winner for Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Professor Jack N. Rakove, Emeritus Stanford University

Jack N. Rakove

"Telling the Essential, Sweeping Story of Juneteenth's Integral Importance to American History " (2021-2022)

Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University, The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

Annette Gordon-Reed