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Hartsville, S.C. — The Phi Beta Kappa Society and Coker College present a lecture by Dr. Joyce Appleby, professor emerita of history at the University of California-Los Angeles, on Monday, February 20 at 7 p.m. in the C.W. Coker Auditorium in Davidson Hall. Appleby will discuss “The Power of History in the Present.” Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.

The lecture is part of Phi Beta Kappa’s national Couper Scholars Program that promotes education in the liberal arts and sciences, recognizes academic excellence, and fosters freedom of thought and expression.

Appleby is the founder of the History News Service that distributes weekly op-ed pieces to more than 300 newspapers. The op-eds are written by historians who put critical current issues into historical perspective. Appleby is also the author of numerous books, including “Ideology and Economic Thought in Seventeenth-Century England,” “Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination,” and “Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans.”

In 1993, Appleby received the College of Letters and Science Distinguished Professor Award at the University of California-Los Angeles. She spent the 1990-91 academic year as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University as a fellow of Queen’s College.

Appleby has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association and the Society for the History of the Early Republic. She holds membership in both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Appleby earned her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School and her master’s degree from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.

The nation’s oldest honor society and leading advocate for the liberal arts and sciences at the undergraduate level, Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. The society has chapters at 270 institutions and a half million members throughout the country.

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February 10, 2006