A distinguished historian and critic, Garry Wills is best known for his incisive political commentaries. Wills won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award and 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln at Gettysburg, the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for Inventing America, and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. Henry Adams and the Making of America showcases Henry Adams’s little-known, but seminal history of the early United States.

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture