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Award-winning historian to deliver Stukes Lecture Feb. 27

Moffatt Dining Hall at Erskine College
The Stukes Lecture will be delivered in the Founders Room of Moffatt Dining Hall.

Combat historian, public speaker, and best-selling author Patrick K. O’Donnell (shown above, photo credit Theo Coulombe) will deliver the 39th Annual Joseph T. Stukes Lecture at Erskine College Thursday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m. in the Founders Room of Moffatt Dining Hall. Admission is free and the public is welcome to attend. Learn more about the speaker here.

O’Donnell’s address will be based on his best-selling book The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware (2021). He is an authority on America’s conflicts from the Revolution through the Iraq War and has written a dozen additional books, including The Unvanquished (2024), First Seals (2014) and Into the Rising Sun (2002).

During the Iraq War, in the first of two tours, O’Donnell was embedded in military units for three months and fought in the Battle of Fallujah with a Marine rifle platoon.

This year’s lecturer is also an expert on the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor of the CIA, and received the John Waller Award for exceptional scholarship in intelligence and special operations history in 2012.

The recipient of numerous national book awards, O’Donnell is a frequent contributor to national publications; has assisted with documentaries produced by the BBC, The History Channel (now known as HISTORY), and others; has appeared on television and radio shows on NPR, CNN, FOX, Discovery, and other networks; and provided historical consulting for the award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers.

The Joseph T. Stukes Lecture Series brings a distinguished lecturer in history to Erskine College each year. The fund was established by students and colleagues of Stukes, who served as professor of history (1966-74) and vice president for academic affairs (1966-71) at Erskine College. He died in 2016.

 

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