Chautauqua: Our History
2025
Anything Goes: America in the Roaring 20s
Al Capone, by Doug Mishler
Zitkala-Sa, by Selene Phillips
Zane Gray, by David Fenimore
Bessie Smith, by Rebecca Marks Jimerson
Mae West, by Karen Vuranch
2024
60 Years since the Civil Rights Act: Lift Every Voice
Earl Warren, by Doug Mishler
Rosa Parks, by Vanessa Adams-Harris
Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson, by Leslie Goddard
Thurgood Marshall, by Jim Armstead
Coretta Scott King, by Rebecca Marks Jimerson
2023
American Aviation: Barnstorming to Mach 1
Amelia Earhart, by Elsa Wolff
Eula “Pearl” Carter Scott, by Selene Phillips
Rose Cousins, by Ilene Evans
Jackie Cochran, by Karen Vuranch
Chuck Yeager, by Doug Mishler
2022
Surviving the 60s: Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll
Allen Ginsberg, by Joey Madia
Christopher Isherwood, by John Anderson
Cass Elliot, by Karen Vuranch
Dr. Timothy Leary, by Ted Kachel
John Lennon, by Randy Noojin
2021
20th Century Visionaries: Catalysts for Change
(virtual presentations due to Covid 19)
Gene Roddenberry, by Doug Mishler
Gertrude Bell, by Karen Vuranch
Marshall McLuhan, by John Anderson
Marie Curry, by Susan Marie Frontczak
Frank Lloyd Wright, by Ted Kachel
2020
Cancelled due to Covid-19
2019
From Pizarro to Picasso: Hispanic Legacy in America Today
Francisco Pizarro, by Hank Fincken
Bartolome de las Casas, by Paul Vickery
Elizabeth Catlett, by Ilene Evans
Ernest “Che” Guevara, by Joey Madia
Pablo Picasso, by Doug Mishler
2018
The Modern Age: Moving Forward After World War I
Gen. Black Jack Pershing, by Doug Mishler
Gertrude Vanderbilt, by Debra Conner
Acee Blue Eagle, by Michael Hughes
Josephine Baker, by Vanessa Adams-Harris
Ernest Hemingway, by Dr. John Anderson
2017
The Great West: Cowboys and Cattle Trails
Jesse Chisholm, by Michael Hughes
Thaddeus Dunkley, by Jim Armstead
Betty Matthews Reynolds, by Sally Drucker
Johanna July, by Vanessa Adams-Harris
Hanging Judge Isaac Parker, by Doug Mishler
2016
The Cold War: The Early Years
Nikita Khrushchev, by Doug Mishler
Ralph Bunche, by Jim Armstead
Eslanda Robeson, by Ilene Evans
Winston Churchill, by Kevin Radaker
Pete Seeger, by Randy Noojin
2015
The Dust Bowl: Strong Winds, Strong Characters
John Steinbeck, by Noel Pugach
Hazel Lucas Shaw, by Sally Ann Drucker
Lena Lowery Sawner, by Vanessa Adams-Harris
Ernie Pyle, by Doug Mishler
Woody Guthrie, by Randy Noojin
2014
A Crisis of Confidence: The War that Changed the World
Edith Wharton, by Karen Vuranch
Emma Goldman, by Sally Ann Drucker
Henry James, by John Anderson
Woodrow Wilson, by Paul Vickery
Theodore Roosevelt, by Doug Mishler
2013
Anything Goes: America in the 1920s
Will Rogers, by Doug Watson
Henry Ford, by Doug Mishler
Bessie Coleman, by Ilene Evans
Babe Ruth, by Gene Worthington
Zelda Fitzgerald, by Debra Conner
2012
Behind the Screen: Hollywood’s Impact on American Culture
Jack L Warner, by Doug Mishler
Ethel Waters, by Ilene Evans
Bob Hope, by Bill Worley
William Faulkner, by John Anderson
Gordon Parks, by Charles Pace
2011
It’s All Make Believe: Hollywood’s Golden Era
DW Griffith, by Doug Mishler
Louella Parsons, by Karen Vuranch
Paul Robeson, by Joseph Bundy
WC Fields, by Hank Fincken
Walt Disney, by Bill Worley
2010
The Wounds of War: A Tale of Two Americas
Stonewall Jackson, by Doug Mishler
William Seward, by Bill Worley
Major Martin Delaney, by Joe Bundy
Clara Barton, by Karen Vuranch
Robert E Lee, by Ted Kachel
2009
Lincoln’s Legacy of Equality: Voices on the Fringe
Harriet Tubman, by Ilene Evans
John Ross, by Michael Hughes
Walt Whitman, by Carroll Peterson
Fredrick Douglass, by Charles Pace
Jefferson Davis, by Doug Mishler
2008
A Time for Every Purpose: America in the 1960s
Malcom X, by Charles Pace
Betty Friedan, by Sally Ann Drucker
Rachel Carson, by Judy Gail
Barry Goldwater, by Gary Gray
George Wallace, by Doug Mishler
Moderator: Julia Child, by Karen Vuranch
2007
OK Centennial: 100 Years of Oklahoma Heroes
Will Rogers, by Doug Watson
Kate Barnard, by Dixie Belcher
Waite Phillips, by William Worley
Lynn Riggs, by John Anderson
Frank Frantz, by Gary Gray
2006
Throw the Book at ‘Em: Outlaws and Authors of Oklahoma
Belle Starr, by Karen Vuranch
Bill Tilghman, by Michael Hughes
Carry Nation, by Judy Gail
Woody Guthrie, by K.C. Mathey
Marquis James, by Paul Vickery
2005
Portraits of the Renaissance: Poets, Pirates and Playwrights
Christopher Columbus, by Hank Fincken
Lucrezia Borgia, by Sally Ann Drucker
Grace O’Malley, by Karen Vuranch
William Shakespeare, by Ted Kachel
Leonardo da Vinci, by Peter Donaldson
2004
Route 66: The Mother Road
Thomas Hart Benton, by Doug Mishler
John Steinbach, by Noel Pugach
Cyrus Avery, by William Worley
Bob Wills, by Michael Hughes
Henry Ford, by Hank Fincken
2003
Lies and Compromises: America in the 1850s
J Goldsbrough Bruff, by Hank Fincken
Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, by Noel Pugach
Francis Ellen Walker Harper, by Dorothy Prince
William Lloyd Garrison, by Michael Hughes
Henry David Thoreau, by Kevin Radaker
2002
From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion and Cultural Change 1790-1850
William Clark, by Jeffery Smith
Tecumseh, by Jerome Kills Small
York, by Charles Pace
John Jacob Astor, by Jerome Tweton
Sacagawea, by Selene Phillips
2001
Behold Our New Century: Early 20th Century Visions of America
Booker T Washington, by Charles Pace
Jane Addams, by Helen Lewis
Theodore Roosevelt, by John Lehman
Andrew Carnegie, by Jeffrey Smith
Charles Eastman (Ohlyesa), by Jerome Small
2000
The Evolution of the West: Myth and Reality
Theodore Roosevelt, by Jerome Tweton
Owen Wister, by John Gentile
Charles Goodnight, by Paul Christensen
Angie Elbertha Debo, by Suzan King
Will Rogers, by Doug Watson
1999
Voices of Ragtime: Visions of our Future Past
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, by Sally Roesch Wagner
Henry Ford, by Paul Vickery
Madam C.J. Walker, by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
H.G. Wells, by Ted Kachel
Alexander Graham Bell, by Michael Hughes
1998
Early America: The Struggle for Freedom
Thomas Payne, by Danney Goble
Judith Sargent Murray, by Kerry Strayer
Abigail Adams, by Suzan Kin
Washington Irving, by John Anderson
Bishop Francis Asbury, by Paul Vickery
1997
Prime Times, Scoundrel Times: Post War America
Winston Churchill, by Ted Kachel
Joseph McCarthy, by Paul Vickery
Lillian Hellman, by Viki Spencer Pettijohn
Eleanor Roosevelt, by Suzan King
Edward R Murrow, by Felix Almaraz Jr.
1996
The Progressive Era: 1890-1920
William Jennings Bryan, by Ted Kachel
Charlotte Perkins Gillman, by Suzan King
H.L. Mencken, by Paul Vickery
1995
Voices of the ’30s: Defining Modern America
Margaret Bourke-White, by Suzan King
Huey Long, by Danney Goble
William Faulkner, by John Anderson
H.L. Mencken, by Paul Vickery
Zora Neale Hurston, by Dorothy Prince
