Purdue Presidential Lecture Series | Joseph Ellis

Joseph Ellis speaks at the unveiling of a near-life-size replica of Emanuel Leutze’s painting
“Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Ellis is a Pultizer Prize-winning author and historian and the foremost expert on the American Revolution. He explains the moving historical moment depicted in the painting and how it’s relevant in today’s America.

This event was recorded in the Reading Room at Wilmeth Active Learning Center on the Purdue campus.

Find out about our next lecture series events: purdue.edu/president/lecture-series.

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