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The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Lecture is given annually in memory
of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who served as an associate justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932
Gordon S. Wood
The 1998 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Lecture
will be given by Gordon S. Wood,
Professor of History at Brown University. His
subject will be Chief Justice John Marshall. A
member of the Brown faculty since 1969, Professor
Wood also has taught at Harvard University, the
College of William and Mary, the University of
Michigan and Cambridge University. He is the
author of more than 50 publications, including The
Creation of the American Republic and The
Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1993.
Professor Wood serves on the Board of Trustees for Colonial
Williamsburg and the National Council of History Education. He
received his B.A. from Tufts University in 1955, his M.A. from
Harvard University in 1959 and his Ph. D. from Harvard in 1964.
Commentaries on Professor Wood's lecture will be offered by:
CHARLES F. HOBSON
Dr. Hobson is the editor of the John Marshall papers and the author
of The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law.
LEWIS H. LaRUE
Professor LaRue is the Class of 1958 Alumni Professor of Law at
Washington and Lee and the author of Constitutional Law as Fiction:
Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority.
R. KENT NEWMYER
R. Kent Newmyer is professor of history, emeritus, at the University of
Connecticut and the author of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story:
Statesman of the Old Republic.