Fourth Annual Thering Fellow James Carroll delivered a lecture titled "Jews, Christians, Muslims: The Better Future" on Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Carroll’s memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us, received the 1996 National Book Award in nonfiction, and other awards. His book Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History, published in 2001, was a New York Times bestseller and was honored as one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and others. — The UW-Madison Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions [lubar.wisc.edu].