February 20, 2007 | "Above and Beyond:  Celebrating the Legacies of Leonard Graduates" by Elvatrice Parker Belsches, Pharmacist, author, researcher and lecturer, Richmond VA | 5:30 p.m. light refreshments with talk beginning at 6 p.m. | Room 527, Health Sciences Library (301 S. Columbia Street) This event is part of the Bullitt Club  History of Medicine Club 2006-2007 speaker series, in cooperation with the Duke Trent History of Medicine Society.

February 28, 2007 | Annual African American History Month Lecture by Lonnie G. Bunch, Executive Director of the National Mueseum of African American History | Special Guest: John Hope Franklin, James Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus | 7 p.m. | Pleasants Family Assembly Room - Wilson Library | For more information, contact Rhonda Whitfield at rwhitfie@email.unc.edu

More about Lonnie Bunch: A scholar, public historian and author, Dr. Bunch has written on a wide range of topics from all-Black towns to race and memory. Among his publications are articles, books, book chapters, and exhibition catalogues, including The Challenge of Interpreting National History in a Global Age (2000); Seeking El Dorado: The Black West (2003); and The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden (2000). Dr. Bunch has also served as the Curator of History for the California Afro-American Museum , a Curator at the National Museum of American History and later its Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs, and the President-C.E.O. of the Chicago Historical Society (2001-05). In recognition of his scholarship and accomplishments in public history, Dr. Bunch was appointed by President George Bush to the Commission for the Preservation of the White House.