Living Room Learning Lecture by Dr. Patrick Allitt (Week 1)

Please note that the series package includes all seven lectures taking place every Monday from January 25 to March 8, 2027. 

The series will take place in McElreath Hall. Doors open at 1:30pm and lectures begin promptly at 2:00 pm with a brief intermission. Parking is free.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two army captains, led a small expedition, the Corps of Discovery, from St. Louis to the Pacific Coast between 1803 and 1806. Their excellent map making, their identification of many new species, and their pioneering of a route through the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, were of lasting importance to the growing nation.  So were their peaceful contacts with many of the Native American communities living along their route.  

Patrick Allitt is Cahoon Family Professor of American History. He was an undergraduate at Oxford in England (1974-1977), a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley (Ph.D., 1986), and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Princeton University.  At Emory since 1988, he teaches courses on American intellectual, environmental, and religious history, on Victorian Britain, and on the Great Books.