#1711 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Joe Ellis on America at 250

The Thomas Jefferson Hour by Listening to America

Jul 6, 202655:33Society & Culture

Clay welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joe Ellis to the program to discuss America at 250. Ellis is the author of more than a dozen books about the Early National Period. He has been in several Ken Burns document...

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