April 4th
Lewis Latimer Room, Faculty Club
12:00 PM (talk starts at 12:30 PM)
Led by Charles W. McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, University of Virginia
This year, distinguished Jefferson Memorial Lecturer, Charles McCurdy (Professor of History and Law , University of Virginia), will also lecture in The Bancroft Library Roundtable series on Friday, April 4. In his Friday talk, Professor McCurdy will return to a topic that he first explored in his early days of research at Bancroft: how Stephen Field, a newly elected U.S. Senator and newly appointed Supreme Court Justice transformed the face of California in 1864.