- October 9, 2008: Donald Ritchie, Senate Historian and author of Electing FDR
- October 31, 2008: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor of History, UC-Santa Barbara and author of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan
- November 11, 2008: Timothy James Brook, Principal, St. John’s College, University of British Columbia and author of Vermeer’s Hat and the Dawn of Global Trade