PRESENTS

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

SEP T EMBER 22, 2020

L IED CEN T ER F OR PER F OR MING A R T S, L INCOL N

TONIGHT’S PRESENTATION BY

DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE STREAMING DURING HER LIVE LECTURE.

LECTURE

DORIS KEARNS GOODWINQUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCEModerated by Patrice C. McMahon, Chair, E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues; Professor, UNL Department of Political Science; Director, UNL Honors Program

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CLOSING REMARKSChristopher Sommerich, Executive Director, Humanities Nebraska

WELCOMETed Carter, President, University of Nebraska

PRESENTATION OF THE SOWER AWARDAmy Sandeen, Chair, Nebraska Humanities Council

REMARKS FROM 2020 SOWER AWARD RECIPIENTNatalie D. Hahn

INTRODUCTION OF THE GOVERNORNicholas W. Baxter, President, Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities

INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKERGovernor Pete Ricketts

THE 25TH ANNUAL GOVERNOR’S LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES

in collaboration with the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues

DORIS KEARNS GOODWINDoris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned

presidential historian, speaker, and Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author. Her seventh book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, was published in 2018 to critical acclaim and became an instant New York Times bestseller. A culmination of Goodwin’s five-decade career of studying the American presidents, the book provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field, and for all of us in our everyday lives.

Goodwin’s career as a presidential historian and author was inspired when as a 24-year-old graduate student at Harvard she was selected to join the White House Fellows. She then wrote Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim.

Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys was adapted into an award-winning five-part television miniseries. Her sixth book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, won the Carnegie Medal and is being developed into a film. Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, served as the basis for Steven Spielberg’s hit film Lincoln and was awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the inaugural Book Prize for American History, and the Lincoln Leadership Prize.

Goodwin graduated magna cum laude from Colby College. She earned a doctorate degree in Government from Harvard University, where she taught Government, including a course on the American Presidency. Among her many honors and awards, Goodwin was awarded the Charles Frankel Prize, the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal, the New England Book Award, as well as the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and is a devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox.

2020 GOVERNOR’S LECTURER

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HONORARY GOVERNOR’S LECTURE CHAIRSDave Heineman Mike Johanns Bob Kerrey

Ben Nelson Kay OrrPete Ricketts

2020 GOVERNOR’S LECTURE COMMITTEEConnie Duncan and Chris Zygielbaum, Co-Chairs

Don Arp, Jr.Nick BaxterGraciela Caneiro-LivingstonLaura CappBrenda ChristensenJohn ConleyJudy EkelerHal France

Julia GaleLinda GraffShannon HarnerMike HomaFirst Lady Susanne ShoreRich SincovecJen Rae Wang

Peter Zandbergen

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BOOKS BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWINsLeadership In Turbulent Times

sThe Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and The Golden Age of Journalism

sTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

sNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front In World War II Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

sLyndon Johnson and the American Dream

sWait Till Next Year: A Memoir

sThe Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga

Learn more about the speaker at https://doriskearnsgoodwin.com/

A native of Polk, long-time resident of Central City, former New Yorker, and now Lincoln resident, Natalie Hahn served 38 years with United Nations programs in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, New York City, and Rome. Global interest and adventures started when she was a Polk County 4-H member, participating in the International Farm Youth Exchange in New Zealand and then receiving a Rotary Fellowship to India. Her work with the U.N. involved new food crops and nutrition in Nigeria, women and finance for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and youth initiatives; she acted as UNICEF Representative to Malawi, and as Senior Private Sector Advisor at the U.N.’s Fund for International Partnerships. Her favorite job involved introducing improved food crops and nutrition programs for rural women in Nigeria. The adoption of soybeans as a new crop to the country was an agricultural revolution. For this accomplishment, the Yoruba Peoples honored her with a chieftaincy and bestowed on her the title Balogun Iyalaje, meaning “the person who empowers.”

Dr. Hahn sees her recent return home to her beloved Nebraska as “her best decision ever.” With the influence of her journalist mother, Grayce Hahn Burney, she was determined to give back to her state by founding the Malaika Foundation, a recipient of HN grants, which has a mission to build a greater understanding of peoples and countries throughout the world and enhance global education in Nebraska schools and communities. Over the past 20 years, the Malaika Foundation has organized educational workshops throughout Nebraska for 3,000 teachers and provided 68 fellowships to teachers and students to study abroad on five continents.

Dr. Hahn has donated African art to Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, the Kenneth Morrison Cancer Center in Hastings, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Wayne State College, and public schools and libraries in Lexington. Upon moving to Lincoln, she became a member of Downtown Lincoln Rotary Club #14.

Her education includes a B.A. from UNL, an M.A. from The Ohio State University, an M.P.A. and Ed.D from Harvard University, plus honorary doctorates from UNL and Nebraska Wesleyan University.

NATALIE D. HAHN2020 SOWER AWARD RECIPIENT

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INDIVIDUALS Marian Andersen • Robert Audi • Keith Blackledge • Marion Marsh

Brown • Gene Bunge • Jack Campbell • State Sen. LaVon Crosby •

Nancy Duncan • Walter Friedlander • Judi gaiashkibos • John Gottschalk

• Richard Holland • Jane Renner Hood • Ron Hull • Ted Kooser • Frederick

Luebke • Robert Manley • Jack McBride • Gary Moulton • Ron Naugle •

Robert Nefsky • Paul Olson • State Sen. Don Pederson • Rhonda Seacrest

• Joe Seger • Todd Simon • Bernice Slote • Annette & Paul Smith •

Pamela Hilton Snow • Joe Starita • E.N. “Jack” Thompson • Charles

“Chuck” Trimble • Morrie Tuttle • Don Welch • Larry Wewel

INSTITUTIONS Beatrice Public Library • Commercial Federal Savings and Loan •

Cooper Foundation • El Museo Latino • Holdrege Public Library •

InterNorth Foundation • Peter Kiewit Foundation • Nebraska

Educational Telecommunications • Nebraska Federation of

Women’s Clubs • Omaha World-Herald • Septemberfest Committee

of Omaha • Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer • Willa Cather

Pioneer Memorial & Education Foundation • Woods Charitable Fund

COMMUNITIES Aurora • David City • Central City • Chadron • Cozad • Gering •

Henderson • Oakland • Scottsbluff • Seward • Verdigre

Graciela Caneiro-LivingstonBrenda ChristensenConnie DuncanJudy EkelerMark Ellis

Shannon HarnerBarbara Hewins-MaroneyBev KracherDave NesheimChris Zygielbaum

SOWER AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEEHal France, Chair

PAST SOWER AWARD RECIPIENTS

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CO-SPONSORS

Humanities Nebraska thanks the following co-sponsors, grand benefactors, benefactors, sponsors, sustainers, and supporters who helped make this year’s Governor’s Lecture possible. (As of August 26)

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GRAND BENEFACTORS

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AnonymousMrs. Marian B. AndersenAnne & Nick BaxterCindy & Mogens BayBlechas, Kuglers, Otises, & WycoffsLaurie Smith CampKristen & Geoffrey ClineCline Williams Wright Johnson & Oldfather, LLPJohn Conley & Cathy LangKim & Tom DinsdaleJack & Judy EkelerKatherine & Dick EndacottJeff & Judy GreenwaldHawks FoundationHBE LLCJohn & Karen HigginsJane Renner HoodBeverly Kracher & Jerry StegemanChas & Ellen LierkMueller Robak LLCNebraska Wesleyan University

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SPONSORS

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERSJohn & Virginia Aita Andrew Alexander & Linda KruckenbergMargaret AllingtonLloyd E. AmbrosiusBob & Barbara BartleDr. and Mrs. Randy BretzDianne & Keith BystromJack & Sally CampbellJohn & Bonnie CederbergDr. Sara B. Crook/ Amanda & Scott BarkerLora Damme & Jay W. LonginakerKristy DietrichGerald & Kit DimonSally & Paul FineHerb & Kathy FriedmanSen. Mike Gloor & Marie de MartinezMark & Linda GraffGalen & Marilyn HadleyCharles & Margaret HermesBarbara Hewins-Maroney & Michael MaroneyMark Hoeger & Jane ErdenbergerCuz & Kile JohnsonCon & Barbara KeatingDuane & Helen KrauseRoger & Shirlee LempkeRoger & Carol LewisSue & Mike LittleDr. Mel LuetchensGary & Faye Moulton

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Amy Sandeen, Chair, Hastings

NEBRASKA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES

NEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL

Don Arp, Jr., Lincoln

Brenda Christensen, Omaha

John H. Conley, Omaha

Connie Duncan, Lincoln

Judy K. Ekeler, Fremont

Kay Fowles, Grand Island

Hal France, Omaha

Julia Gale, Lincoln

Linda L. Graff, McCook

Shannon Harner, Lincoln

Michael J. Homa, Omaha

Tami Hellman, Vice President, Kearney

Beverly Kracher, Omaha

Lynette Krieger, Hastings

Amy Sandeen, Hastings

Paulette Stefka, North Platte

Laura Troshynski, North Platte

Jen Rae Wang, Omaha

Peter Zandbergen, Omaha

Chris Zygielbaum, Lincoln

Don Arp, Jr., Lincoln

Graciela Caneiro-Livingston, Lincoln

Laura Capp, Ashland

Connie Duncan, Vice Chair, Lincoln

Steve Elliott, Wayne

Mark R. Ellis, Kearney

Hal France, Omaha

Barbara Hewins-Maroney, Omaha

Edgar J. Hicks, Omaha

Lynette Krieger, Hastings

Mike Linder, Treasurer, Omaha

David Nesheim, Chadron

Sarah Rowe, Omaha

Barb Schlothauer, Gering

Paulette Stefka, North Platte

Dori Wanitschke, Grand Island

Beth Whited, Omaha

Jaclyn M. Wilson, Lakeside

Nicholas W. Baxter, President, Omaha

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ABOUT HUMANITIES NEBRASKAOur Mission is to help Nebraskans explore what connects us and makes us human.

Our Vision is that Nebraskans possess the knowledge, understanding, and empathy to cultivate a more informed, thoughtful, and just society.

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Capitol Forum on America’s FutureUsing a curriculum from Brown University, Capitol Forum encourages high school students to develop better understanding of American democratic principles as they discuss global issues with their peers and elected officials.

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PartnershipsHN collaborates with other organizations on a variety of programs across the state, including National History Day: Nebraska, Nebraska Literary Tour, Nebraska State Poet, Nebraska Warrior Writers, One Book One Nebraska and others that enrich our appreciation for history, culture, and literature.

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NEBRASKA CULTURAL ENDOWMENT

David Buntain, Blair

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Michelle Dudley, Norfolk

Amy Haddad, Omaha

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Carey Hamilton, President, Omaha

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Murray Newman, Emeritus, Omaha

The mission of the Nebraska Cultural Endowment is to cultivate a legacy of stability, advocacy and leadership for the arts and humanities in Nebraska.

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