Department of History presents Freeman lecture series this fall

The University of Richmond's Department of History 2014-15 Douglas Southall Freeman Professor, Colin Jones, will present two lectures this fall.

Jones, professor of history at Queen Mary, University of London, and leader in the field of French history between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, is in residence at Richmond this semester teaching a course called, “Modern France and the World.”

Jones’ lectures include “Smiling Before, During, and After the Terror,” Thursday, Oct. 30, and “Overthrowing Robespierre, Ending Terror,” Thursday, Nov. 6. Both lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be held in Weinstein Hall, Brown-Alley room at 7:30 p.m.

Jones is immediate past president of The Royal Historical Society and an Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of Academic Palms), an Order of Chivalry of France for distinguished academics and figures in the world of culture and education. He has a particular interest in the history of medicine. His books include “The Medical World of Early Modern France” (with Laurence Brockliss), “The Great Nation: France 1715-99” and “Paris: Biography of a City,” which won the Enid MacLeod Prize of the Franco-British Society.  His latest book, “The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” will be published by Oxford University Press in November 2014.

The Douglas Southall Freeman Professorship of History honors one of University of Richmond’s most illustrious alumni. Freeman, Class of 1904, served as rector of the University Board of Trustees for 16 years. He earned distinction as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington; as the decades-long editor-in-chief of the Richmond News Leader; and as a daily radio news analyst.

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