Gwendolyn Wright, co-host of the PBS series “History Detectives” and professor of architecture at Columbia University’s graduate school, will give a lecture about interpreting history at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center.

Wright will delve into a talk about how television presents history and the role historians play in making certain decisions. She will discuss the role of humanistic scholarship on the airwaves that show how historians work. As history can be told multiple ways, the PBS program “History Detectives” intends to look at the way historians pursue a variety of possible sources, discuss problems with colleagues, evaluate contradictory evidence, challenge initial observations and come to conclusion about everything.

The program finished its ninth season, and it has become popular with a diverse audience.

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