- 2024 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “An Era of Unstable Majorities Continues” Keynote Speaker: Morris P. Fiorina, Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
- 2023 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “Black Women & the Struggle for Human Rights in U.S. History”, Keynote Speaker: Keisha Blain, Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University. Nationally respected scholar, historian and human rights advocate.
- 2022 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “The Struggle for Democracy, at Home and Abroad” Keynote Speaker: Michael Dobbs, Long-time journalist and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post.
- 2021 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “My Voice, My Pen, My Vote: Frederick Douglass and American Democracy” Guest Speaker: David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize winning historian.
- 2019 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “How Democracies Die”
Keynote Speaker: Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has published on authoritarian regimes and the rise of despots. - 2018 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “Doctor Shoppers: From Problem Patients to Model Citizens”. Keynote speaker: Nancy Tomes, SUNY Distinguished professor.
- 2017 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “King’s Dream for Justice: Then and Now”
Keynote Speaker: Taylor Branch, American author and historian best known for his 3-book trilogy on the landmark narrative history of the civil rights era. - 2016 Fall American Democracy Lecture: “History, Mental Health, and Humor: The Lingering Effects of Slavery and Race”
Keynote Speaker: Earl Lewis; Sixth president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.