Renowned Historian Harlow Giles Unger to Speak at UA’s Inaugural Friends of History Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Harlow Giles Unger, a renowned historian of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, will give a public talk at the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art in Tuscaloosa, Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 1:30 p.m. The talk, entitled “Lafayette, Washington’s Adopted Son,” is the first Friends of History Lecture.

Unger is author of the “Lafayette,” “The French War Against America,” “The Unexpected George Washington” and numerous award-winning books, including historical biographies of Lafayette, John Hancock and Noah Webster. A veteran journalist, he was an editor at The New York Herald Tribune Overseas News Service and a foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times in London.

The Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art is home to one of the finest collections of paintings and artifacts related to Washington. The collection is owned by the industrialist Jonathan “Jack” Westervelt Warner.

The lecture is sponsored by UA, its history department and the Friends of History Association.

The event, which is on Washington’s birthday, is free and open to the public.

The UA history department is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.