I think it's really the other way around. We're very happy to have her here along with her grandson Jack Cote who has the good fortune to be a student at Swarthmore. It's funded by an endowment that was established by Thomas D Jones Jr '53 and Vera Lindy Jones '58 in 2001. We're fortunate to have this series in his name. 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 which in fact was the subject of his best known monograph I think for which he was justly well known.

He served four years in the Navy during World War II. He was widely published in the fields of American Naval History and International Relations. He served on the faculty from 1947 until his retirement in 1986. We alternate two speaker series and we look forward to them every year and this one is a speaker series that honors the memory of James A Field Jr who was the Isaac H Clothier Professor of History and International Relations at Swarthmore College. I'm Tim Burke, I'm the chair of the history department and I want to welcome you to an important part of our annual calendar. 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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