Author to Discuss Scots' Contribution to American
Politics
By Amy Cowles Homewood
New York Times best-selling author Arthur
Herman will give the second annual Patrick Henry Lecture at
4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, in 210 Hodson Hall on the
Homewood campus. The title of his lecture is "A Scottish
Descent: The Origin of American Politics."
Herman, who earned his doctorate in history from Johns
Hopkins in 1985, is the first non-Briton to serve on the
Scottish Arts Council. He was the recipient of Fulbright
and Andrew W. Mellon grants and won the Brittingham Prize
for his doctoral thesis. His New York Times
bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern
World, was dubbed "a well-argued tribute to Scottish
creative imagination and energy" and has sold more than a
quarter of a million copies around the world. He has
authored three other critically acclaimed books, one of
which was nominated for the United Kingdom's Mountbatten
Prize.
His next book, a full-length study of the 40-year
rivalry between Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill, is
to be published in 2008. After teaching at Georgetown and
George Mason universities, Herman became coordinator of the
Western Heritage Program for the Smithsonian's Campus on
the Mall from 2000 to 2005. His columns often appear in
The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal
Asia.
The lecture is funded by a $1 million gift from
Margaret Nuttle, a great-great-great granddaughter of
Patrick Henry. Her gift supports a postdoctoral fellowship,
an undergraduate seminar and an annual lecture, all
focusing on pre-Colonial or Colonial history and featuring
Patrick Henry. The widow of Philip E. Nuttle, a member of
the Johns Hopkins University class of 1929, Margaret Nuttle
said she hopes her gift to the departments of History and Political Science will help to
promote a more balanced portrayal of Patrick Henry's life
and times, and also will stimulate a resurgence in the
teaching of American history and political science.
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