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Lewis and Clark: The Explorers [TTC Audio]
English | 2005 | Patrick N. Allitt | 32 mins | MP3 | 22 MB
"Lewis and Clark The Explorers " A Complimentary Lecture
We invite you join us in commemorating the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark reaching the
Pacific Ocean. This free lecture recounts how Lewis and Clark, a pair of army captains,
led the Corps of Discovery on a three-year mission after President Jefferson seized the
opportunity to buy the Louisiana territory from France. Their mission was to map the
territory, see whether it would provide an easy route to the West Coast and the Pacific
Ocean for trade with Asia, and gain American control of the lucrative trans-Mississippi
fur trade. The two captains worked well together and lost only one of their 33 men, despite
Indian attacks, sickness, and bouts of near starvation. They brought back to the president
a vast trove of information about the American West s geography, flora, fauna, and peoples.
Their industriousness as observers and collectors, and their self-discipline in the face of
human and natural threats, assured the expedition s success. Most importantly, they laid the
foundations of the nation s subsequent westward expansion.
We offer free lectures to our customers at various times throughout the year as part of
our goal to provide a lifelong learning experience. "Lewis and Clark The Explorers" is
presented by Professor Patrick N. Allitt of Emory University (Ph.D., University of California
at Berkeley) as Lecture 12 of American Identity.
Patrick N. Allitt is Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He was
born and raised in central England and received his B.A. in British and European History
from Oxford University. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of
California at Berkeley. Dr. Allitt has served as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity
School and at the Princeton University Center for the Study of American Religion.
Professor Allitt is the author of five books and editor of a sixth. They include I'm the
Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (2004), Religion in
America Since 1945: A History (2003), Major Problems in American Religious History (2000),
Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome (1997), and Catholic
Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America (1993).
Professor Allitt is Director of Emory's Center for Teaching and Curriculum and former holder
of the NEH/Arthur Blank Professorship of Teaching in the Humanities.
You may listen to these lectures at your computer through December 31, 2005 by choosing to
"stream" them, or you may download them to listen on your computer without being attached to
the Internet. You may also burn them to a CD or load them on a portable listening device if
you download them.
Please feel free to send the link to this lecture to any friends of yours who might also
enjoy it. This lecture is free for them as well.
It is a pleasure for us to bring you the joy of lifelong learning every day in recorded
lectures on DVD, audio CD, audiotape, and videotape. Professor Allitt is one of the more
than 100 great teachers we offer on a variety of course topics. We hope you enjoy this taste
of his lecturing style.
As always, thank you for being our customer.
Tom Rollins
President and CEO
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