Joseph Ellis

Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history. The author of eight books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation and won the National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson. Ellis' newest book is First Family: Abigail and John Adams.

Joseph Ellis appears in the following:

American Icons: Monticello

Thursday, March 09, 2017

This is the home of America’s aspirations and its deepest contradictions.

The 'Other' Clintons: America's First Political Dynasty

Tuesday, July 05, 2016

We kick off our “Also-Rans” series with one of America’s first political dynasties: The New York Clintons, George and Dewitt.

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Leonard Lopate Weekend: George Mitchell, "What Happened, Miss Simone?" and Understanding the Founding Fathers

Friday, June 26, 2015

This week: George Mitchell on the art of negotiation, Liz Garbus on the brilliant Nina Simone, and Joseph Ellis on the Second American Revolution
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Unmasking the Founding Fathers

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Author Joseph Ellis' latest book, The Quartet, explores the second American founding and the men responsible for molding America into the country we know it as now.  

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Sex, Ducks & The Founding Feud

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.

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Jurisdiction

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

From 'real' hip-hop to the Supreme Court, two stories about very different boundaries and how we patrol them. 

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Sex, Ducks, and The Founding Feud

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Jilted lovers and disrupted duck hunts provide a very odd look into the soul of the US Constitution.
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1776 and the Birth of American Independence

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Pulitzer-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis looks at the summer months of 1776, when the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding took place. In Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, Ellis examines the most influential figures in this momentous year, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe.

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American Icons: Monticello

Friday, February 17, 2012

This is the home of America’s aspirations and its deepest contradictions. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States. Yet...

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The Events that Shaped the Formation of America

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis looks at the events that shaped the United States’s earliest years, from Valley Forge to the Louisiana Purchase. Ellis’s new book is American Creation.

Event: Joseph Ellis will be in conversation with Richard Brookhiser
Thursday, November 29 at 6:30 pm
New York Historical ...

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