In 1997, in celebration of the Department of History's centennial, we initiated a unique lecture series that has become one of our most successful community outreach and fundraising events to date. The Mystery in History Dinner and Lecture series has intrigued and entertained hundreds of guests through the presentations of such murder mysteries as Jack the Ripper, Lizzie Borden, and Alexander the Great. It has helped to answer questions, such as "Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?" and "The Death of Edgar Allan Poe: Natural Causes or Murder?"
