Wiles Butterfield Lecture

- Professor Steven Sarson Université Lyons 3: Jean Moulin will speak on the topic: ‘“All men are created equal”: Some Reflections on the Character of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States’ Steve Sarson is Professeur des universités in the Department of English Studies at Lyons 3. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and taught previously at Swansea University. His research specializes on early American history, and his publications include British America, 1500-1800: Creating Colonies, Imagining an Empire (OUP, 2005), The Tobacco-Plantation South in the Early American Atlantic World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Barack Obama: American Historian (Bloomsbury, 2018), and most recently, The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States (University of Virginia Press, 2025) This is a free lecture, open to the public, and will take place in the Canada Room/Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, QUB, starting at 5pm. Please contact Nicola Hooke at [email protected] with any queries. More information at: https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/annual-lectures/wiles-lecture-series/