SOU’s Cherstin Lyon joins conversation with Pulitzer winner Rick Atkinson
SOU History professor Cherstin M. Lyon, Ph.D., will join Oregon Historical Society executive director Kerry Tymchuk this week for an onstage conversation with Rick Atkinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author and historian.
The Southern Oregon Historical Society is hosting Atkinson in partnership with the Oregon Historical Society’s Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series and Oregon’s official commemoration of America 250, marking the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. The conversation with Atkinson – from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Rogue Valley Country Club, 2660 Hillcrest Road in Medford – will be about his latest work, “Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–1780.”
“Fate of the Day” is the second volume of the author’s acclaimed Revolution Trilogy, offering a narrative account of the American Revolution’s most precarious years.
He has written nine books on military history, including his Liberation Trilogy about World War II. The first volume in that series – “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943” – won Atkinson the Pulitzer Prize for History.
It was his third Pulitzer – he also won the individual prize for national reporting while with the Kansas City Times for his series on the West Point class of 1966, which suffered the highest casualties in Vietnam of any military class; and he headed a seven-person team at the Washington Post that won a Pulitzer for public service reporting for its series about police shootings in Washington, D.C.
Sponsors of this week’s conversation with Atkinson are offering discounted tickets for students and educators, in an effort to make the event accessible to the academic community. Tickets for students or teachers will be $15; tickets for members of the Oregon Historical Society or Southern Oregon Historical Society will be $30; and tickets for the general public will be $35.
Tickets can be purchased online or at the door, subject to availability. Seating is limited, and advance purchase is highly recommended.
The special Medford engagement is made possible through support from the Keller Foundation, the America 250 Oregon sponsor of the Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series.
