A British View of the American Revolution
Nov 24, 2026 11:45 AM
Patrick Allitt, Professor of History, Emory Univ.
A British View of the American Revolution
Patrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University in Atlanta. He was born and raised in England, was an undergraduate at Oxford University in the 1970s, then came to America to study for the PhD in American History. He has been at Emory since 1988.
He is the author of seven books and the presenter of ten video lecture series with The Great Courses, most recently “Great Rivers That Shaped History.” His wife, Toni, is a Michigan native, and their daughter, Frances, lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.