April 9, 2002

Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: January 28, 2001

MIDDLEBURY,

VT- Authors and

professors Daniel Horowitz and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz will give a joint

lecture titled “Why Americans Worry So Much about Sex and Money”

on Monday, April 22, at 7 p.m. The talk by the husband-and-wife team is

the 27th annual Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture and will take place

in the Concert Hall of the Middlebury College Center for the Arts on South

Main Street (Route 30). The lecture is free and open to the public.

Daniel Horowitz is a professor

of American studies and history at Smith College. He is the author of

many articles and books, including most recently “Betty Friedan and

the Making of ‘The Feminine Mystique’: The American Left, the

Cold War, and Modern Feminism” (1998). He is currently at work on

“The Anxieties of Affluence: Consumers and Intellectuals in the U.S.,

1939-1979.”

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

is the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor in American Studies at Smith College.

She is also the author of many articles and books, including “Campus

Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to

the Present” (1987). She is currently at work on “Rereading

Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in 19th-Century America.”

The late Charles S. Grant

was a gifted and much loved teacher and esteemed scholar at Middlebury

College in the 1950s until his untimely death in 1961. Shortly thereafter,

several of his colleagues and friends in the Middlebury community formed

a committee and created a fund that became large enough to establish an

annual lectureship in American History as a tribute to him. Many of the

most prominent American historians of the past 35 years have delivered

Grant lectures. Previous speakers range from David McCullough, author

of the best-selling biography “John Adams,” to Arthur M. Schlesinger,

Jr., who served from 1961-1963 as special assistant to President John

F. Kennedy.