Speech:

Address to the British Ambassador

Speaker:

William Gottlieb Schauffler

1700 - 1899 / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Like many Protestant missionaries, William Gottlieb Schauffler sought to spread the Christian faith in lands controlled by the Ottoman Empire. He like many others were sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Although most American missionaries went to other parts of Asia, U.S. Protestants established permanent stations in the Levant (1823),…  Read more.
Speech:

Perspectives on Lebanon

Speaker:

Clovis Maksoud

1961 - 1980 / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism and Human Rights
Born in Bristow, Oklahoma, in 1926 to Christian Lebanese parents, Clovis Maksoud (كلوفيس مقصود) moved with his family to Beirut as a teenager. Maksoud was educated at the elite International School of Choueifat and the American University of Beirut before he returned to the United States to study law at George Washington University. He later…  Read more.
Theodore Roosevelt in Egypt
Speech:

Law and Order in Egypt

Speaker:

Theodore Roosevelt

1900 - 1940 / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
After Theodore Roosevelt left the presidency in 1909, he embarked on a 15-month tour of Africa and Europe—a journey that captured the interest and imagination of people at home and abroad. Roosevelt’s adventures were chronicled in the 1910 volume, African Game Trails, where he detailed his enchantment with big game hunting and the geographical, botanical,…  Read more.