Overview
Please join the Carl Spain Center on Race Studies and Spiritual Action and Abilene Christian University at the 2026 Don Williams and Royce Money Distinguished Lecture Series Friday, May 1st at 7 p.m. in the ACU Chapel on the Hill.
To help the ACU and Abilene community commemorate “America 250,” the Carl Spain Center is welcoming Pulitzer Prize-winning author, “MacArthur Genius” and Harvard Law Professor, Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, as the keynote speaker for this year's lecture series. Dr. Gordon-Reed, a Texas-raised historian, appears as a featured expert in the recent Ken Burns PBS documentary, The American Revolution.
Dr. Gordon-Reed will be speaking on the topic, "The Story of Our Founding, and Its Impact for Us Today."