Yale Bulletin and Calendar

July 21, 2000

Volume 28, Number 35

New center to host talks on U.S. parks

America's national parks will be the focus of the inaugural event of the Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 8 and 9.

The event will feature a keynote address on Friday by Robin Winks, the Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History, on the topic "The Best Idea We Ever Had: Wallace Stegner, the National Parks and the West." This will be followed by a reception at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. On Saturday, the center will sponsor a follow-up panel discussion on the past and current social, political and environmental problems surrounding the national parks.

The new Lamar Center was established to further historical and comparative explorations of the frontier experience in North America and throughout the world. The center is named in honor of Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and former Yale president.

More information on the center's inaugural event will appear in the Sept. 1 issue of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar.

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