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We hope you will join us for our next series which will explore the origins of the American Revolution in honor of the forthcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Lecture topics will look at the intellectual traditions of the 18th century that drove the Revolution, cultural practices in the colonies, Native American history, women in the lead-up to Revolution, and more, concluding with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
The series will take place in McElreath Hall. Doors open at 1:30pm and lectures begin promptly at 2pm with a brief intermission. Parking is free.
About the Lecture
Lexington and Concord
This lecture will describe the opening scenes of the Revolutionary War in April 1775, at a time when it was still not obvious that the Americans would declare their independence (an event that was then still more than a year in the future). It will show how George Washington took command of the Continental Army and how the first bloodshed radicalized a generation of New Englanders.
Patrick Allitt, Cahoon Family Professor of American History
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.