Living Room Learning Lecture by Dr. Patrick Allitt (Week 7)

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.

America went to war against Britain in 1812 for a number of reasons: British blockades prevented America from trading with Napoleonic France, Britain seized American sailors to serve in its navy, and disagreements continued about frontiers in the American north and west. The low point of the war—from the American point of view—was the British invasion of Washington D.C., which forced President Madison to flee the capital. The high point was America’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans. Never since 1815 have Britain and America fought one another.

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.