Informal Talks to Non-Academic Audiences

Updated October 16, 2000

For a number of years, Cooper Society founder and Secretary/Treasurer Hugh C. MacDougall has given talks on James Fenimore Cooper and his writings to varied non-academic audiences in the Cooperstown area. We make available a selection of them here. We would welcome, for this section, other talks on Cooper prepared for non-academic audiences.

The papers are archived here alphabetically by title, but may also be accessed through the finding aids at Articles & Papers.

• (1990) James Fenimore Cooper: Prophet of the Environmental Movement. Cooper, many decades ahead of his time, proclaimed the major principles of modern environmentalism. [INFORMAL TALKS]
• (1997) James Fenimore Cooper and the Sea. Cooper as novelist of the sea, naval historian, and friend of the United States Navy. [INFORMAL TALKS]
• (1998) Making a Place Historic: The Coopers and Cooperstown. How three generations of Coopers gave their differing visions of Cooperstown to the world. [INFORMAL TALKS]
• (2000) The Book that Made Glens Falls Famous: An Introduction to James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Born in the Cave at Glens Falls in 1824, Mohicans considers seriously the role of the wilderness in creating the American character, the American Indian, and the African-American. [INFORMAL TALKS]

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