Historian Douglas Brinkley to present lecture at Florida Southern in Lakeland

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley returns to Florida Southern College in Lakeland on Thursday to discuss the nation's environmental history.

Brinkley will speak at 7 p.m. in Branscomb Auditorium as part of the Florida Lecture Series, presented by the Lawton Chiles Center for Florida History.

Brinkley will discuss the Florida aspects of his 2022 book, "Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and the Great Environmental Awakening," the third installment of his environmental history of America series. The book chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-73), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, FSC said in a news release.

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Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and a Professor of History at Rice University. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, CBS, MSNBC, NPR and other news outlets and a bestselling author. His more than 30 books have covered such subjects as the D-Day Invasion, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, the Nixon Tapes, Hurricane Katrina, Rosa Parks, Walter Cronkite, and JFK and the Space Race.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Lawton Chiles Center for Florida History at 863-680-3001.

This article originally appeared on The Ledger: Historian Douglas Brinkley to speak at Florida Southern in Lakeland