In
May 1996, Steve Davidson and Susan Davidson McClenahan
of the Davidson Family Charitable
Foundation announced the endowment of the Davidson
Distinguished Lecture Series.Twice a year, the Davidson
Distinguished Lecture Series, Midland College Foundation, Friends
of the Series and Bank
of America present nationally-known speakers whose
academic accomplishments, civic leadership, and/or
public achievements interest, enrich, and enlighten
Midland students and citizens. These lectures are FREE to the public. For a list of the Davidson Distinguished
Lecture Series Committee members, click
here.
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is the author of the best-selling series, The Hinges of History, in which he endeavors to retell the story of the Western world through little-known stories of individuals who had pivotal impacts on history and contributed immensely to Western culture and the evolution of Western sensibility, thus revealing how we have become the people we are and why we think and feel the way we do today.
October 2 , 2008, 7:30 p.m.
Al G. Langford Chaparral Center
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B, in his hilarious first book, The Lost Continent, chronicled a trip around small town America in his mother's Chevy. His other books include Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Made in America, The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words and Bill Bryson's African Diary. His latest book is The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.
April 16, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Al G. Langford Chaparral Center
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