![]() ![]() The Field Endowment supports a biennial lecture by visiting scholars at Swarthmore College on the subject of the history of the United States. ![]() He won the Bronze Star for heroism, helping in the evacuation of a small aircraft carrier that was damaged by a kamikaze attack in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Field, Jr., a distinguished professor of history at Swarthmore College from 1947 to 1986. Widely published in the fields of American Naval History and International Relations, Field also served four years in the Navy during World War II. ![]() '53 and Vera Lundy Jones '58, in 2001, and is named after the late James A. Lecture Endowment was established by Thomas D. Lecture. His prize-winning books have appeared in 15 languages and include The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Beacon Press, 2017). ![]() In the fall, Marcus Rediker, a Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris, delivered the biennial James A. Marcus Rediker, Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris, discusses Benjamin Lay and the Surprising Origins of Revolutionary Abolitionism at the James A. ![]()
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