John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Library Fund & Lecture Series
The John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Library Fund & Lecture Series encourages use of primary source materials. Each lecture pairs a paper by a university student with a lecture by an established, nationally known historian.
Upcoming Lecture - March 20, 2025, 5:30 pm, John Grisham Room
James A. Bultema
Ulysses S. Grant: A Photographic History
James Bultema is the president of the Ulysses S. Grant Association and Presidential Library. He previously served as vice president for 34 years. He is an international expert on the image of Ulysses S. Grant. His collection of images, the Bultema-Williams Collection of Grant images and prints, is housed at the Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University.
Bultema, a combat veteran and retired Los Angeles Police officer, has published several books on police history. Bultema recently released his first novel, Sea of Red, which is an award-winning Amazon bestseller.
He and his wife Carole ran Bullywood Productions, a documentary film company in Los Angeles for twenty years. He lives in sunny Arizona with his wife of 52 years.
Heath Anderson
Life is Not Held Sacred: Mississippi and the Election of 1875
Heath Anderson is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at Mississippi State University. Growing up in Virginia, he cultivated a passion for history and the American Civil War from a young age on trips to numerous battlefields. His dissertation “The Civilization of Slavery Vs. That of Freedom,” explores how Civil War era Americans’ conflicting understandings of “civilization” shaped the course of Reconstruction.
