Event Details

End: March 2, 2022
Contact: hatfieldseries@ohs.org
More Info: https://www.ohs.org/events/erik-larson.cfm

For over two decades, the Oregon Historical Society’s Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series has earned a reputation for hosting America’s most prominent historians, biographers, and public officials. The series kicks continues on March 1 at 7pm with a talk by award-winning author Erik Larson on his latest book, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During The Blitz. This biography of Winston Churchill’s first year as prime minister shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports — some released only recently — Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family.

Virtual series tickets can be purchased here, and single lecture tickets go on sale January 18.