American Heritage Lecture Series (AHLS) collection, 1989-1990, 1992-2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2023
Content Description
This collection contains programs from each year the lecture series was held, documents detailing the planning of the event, copies of the recordings, assorted emphera, correspondence, and clippings. A drawing by Pam McGinnis, copyright 1999 (6/50) showing the tenth anniversary (1989-1999) of speakers is included in an oversized box.
Photographs from the lecture series are found in the Photographs collection.
Dates
- Creation: 1989-1990, 1992-2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2023
Creator
- From the Collection: Buena Vista College (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Buena Vista University (Publisher, Organization)
Historical Note
The Wlliam W. Siebens American Heritage Lectures Series was established in 1989 by the late Harold Waler Siebens to provide the midwest with access to prominent world figures. He endowned this series to son in the assurance that the program would continue after his death. Harold Walter Siebens was concerned with the future of constitutional freedoms and so he had hoped that these lectures would be become a definitive statement for freedom. The purpose of this series is for students to have a chance to discuss with recognized leaders from all disciplines about issues underlying american freedoms. This series was an annual tradition from the college until 2007 when it became every other year to now being every three years. Leaders such as Jimmy Carter in 1990, George Bush in 1999, Condoleezza Rice in 2013, and Walter Isaacson in 2023. This series was meant to be a reminder to everyone how precious freedoms like free speech, press, and enterprise are as well as inspire the respect for and loyalty to American Freedoms.
Partial Extent
From the Collection: 3.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Arrangement
Chronological
List
1990 - Jimmy Carter
1992 - Michael Gartner
1993 - Sir John Marks Templeton
1994 - Margaret Thatcher
1995 - Carl Sagan
1996 - F.W. devKlerk
1997 - Walter Cronkite
1998 - Shimon Peres
1999 - George H.W. Bush
2000 - Colin Powell
2001 - Madeleine Albright
2002 - Benazir Bhutto
2003 - Bob Woodward
2004 - David Gergen
2005 - John Major
2006 - Jehan Sadat
2007 - Vicente Fox
2009 - Paul Volcker
2011 - Tony Blair
2013 - Condoleezza Rice
2016 - Leon Panetta
2019 - Steve Wozniak
2023 - Walter Isaacson
Subject
- Bhutto, Benazir, 1953-2007 (Speaker, Person)
- Templeton, John, 1912-2008 (Speaker, Person)
- Blackmun, Harry A. (Harry Andrew), 1908-1999 (Speaker, Person)
- Carter, Jimmy Lee (Speaker, Person)
- Gartner, Michael, 1938- (Speaker, Person)
- Thatcher, Margaret (Speaker, Person)
- Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996 (Speaker, Person)
- De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem) (Speaker, Person)
- Cronkite, Walter (Speaker, Person)
- Peres, Shimon, 1923- (Speaker, Person)
- Bush, George, 1924-2018 (Speaker, Person)
- Powell, Colin L. (Speaker, Person)
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel (Speaker, Person)
- Woodward, Bob, 1943- (Speaker, Person)
- Gergen, David R. (David Richmond), 1942- (Speaker, Person)
- Major, John Roy, 1943- (Speaker, Person)
- Sādāt, Jīhān, 1933- (Speaker, Person)
- Fox Quesada, Vicente (Speaker, Person)
- Volcker, Paul A. (Speaker, Person)
- Blair, Tony, 1953- (Person)
- Rice, Condoleezza, 1954- (Speaker, Person)
- Panetta , Leon E. , 1938- (Speaker, Person)
- Buena Vista College. William W. Siebens American Heritage Lecture Series. AHLS (Organization)
- Buena Vista University. William W. Siebens American Heritage Lecture Series. AHLS. (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Buena Vista University Archives Repository