Every autumn a distinguished historian is invited to the University of Western Ontario to deliver three public lectures. The lecture series was established in 1975 by the Honourable Edwin A. Goodman of Toronto to perpetuate the memory of his beloved elder daughter, a second year History student who died in a highway accident that year.
The theme of the series is the history of the North Atlantic Triangle (Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom). The lectures are typically published as books a few years after they are given.
The Goodman lectures in 2011 will be delivered by the distinguished Canadian historian John English. He will be speaking about issues related to Arctic sovereignty.
Past (and Future) Goodman Lectures
| 2013 | Joanna Bourke |
| 2012 | Paul Boyer, 666 and All That: How Bible-Prophecy Belief Shapes the Worldview of Millions in Contemporary North America (tentative) |
| 2011 | John English, Ice and Water: Can the Arctic Be Governed? |
| 2010 | David Stafford, Portraits from the Secret War 1940-1945 |
| 2009 | Harvey Levenstein, Food, Faith and Hope: The Transformation of Food and Its Consequences in North America |
| 2008 | Michael Bliss, From Fatalism to Mastery: (Canada and) The Coming of Modern Medicine |
| 2007 | Margaret MacMillan, The Uses and Abuses of History |
| 2006 | Laurel T. Ulrich, Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History |
| 2005 | Janice MacKinnon, European Social Programmes and American Tax Rates?: Paying for Canadian Social Programmes |
| 2004 | Neville Thompson, Canada and the End of the Imperial Dream: Beverley Baxter’s Reports from the Capital of Empire, 1936-1960 |
| 2003 | Admiral William J. Crowe, The U.S. and Iraq |
| 2002 | Jacalyn Duffin, Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History |
| 2001 | Jane E. Lewis, Should We Worry About Family Changes? |
| 2000 | Jack P. Greene, Speaking of Empire: Celebration and Disquiet in Metropolitan Analyses of the Eighteenth Century British Empire |
| 1999 | T.C. Smout, The Scots at Home and Abroad 1600-1750 |
| 1998 | Terry Copp, A Citizen Army: The Canadians in Normandy, 1944 |
| 1997 | Donald Akenson, If The Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, from slavery onwards |
| 1996 | Ged Martin, Past Futures: Locating Ourselves in Time |
| 1995 | Rodney Davenport, Birth of the “New” South Africa |
| 1994 | Flora MacDonald, An Insider’s Look at Canadian Foreign Policy Initiatives Since 1957 |
| 1993 | Daniel Kevles, Nature and Civilization: Environmentalism in the Frame of Time |
| 1992 | Christopher Andrew, The Secret Cold War: Intelligence Communities and the East-West Conflict |
| 1991 | P.B. Waite, The Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870-1947 |
| 1990 | Jill Kerr Conway, The Woman Citizen: Transatlantic Variations on a Nineteenth-Century Feminist Theme |
| 1989 | Rosalind Mitchison, Coping with Destitution: Poverty and Relief in Western Europe |
| 1988 | J.L. Granatstein, How Britain’s Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States |
| 1987 | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Female Self in the Age of Bourgeois Individualism |
| 1986 | J.R. Lander, The Limitations of the English Monarchy in the Later Middle Ages |
| 1985 | Desmond Morton, Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915-1930 |
| 1984 | William Freehling, Crisis United States Style: A Comparison of the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars |
| 1983 | Alistair Horne, The French Army and Politics, 1870-1970 |
| 1982 | Carl Berger, Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada |
| 1981 | Geoffrey Best, Honour among Men and Nations: Transformations of an Idea |
| 1980 | Kenneth A. Lockridge, Settlement and Unsettlement in Early America: The Crisis of Political Legitimacy before the Revolution |
| 1979 | Charles Ritchie, Diplomacy: The Changing Scene |
| 1978 | Robert Rhodes James, Britain in Transition |
| 1977 | Robin W. Winks, The Relevance of Canadian History: U.S. and Imperial Perspectives |
| 1976 | C.P. Stacey, Mackenzie King and the Atlantic Triangle |
The Past Speaks 
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