Directory of Ellis, Joseph Resources

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Joseph John Ellis (born 1943) is an American historian. His book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (2000) received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2001.

Resources in This Category

• Frontline - Jefferson's Blood: Joseph Ellis

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/interviews/ellis.html
  A lengthy interview with the historian on slavery, Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with Sally Hemings, and the social and intellectual climate of the revolutionary-era United States.

• Joseph Ellis: the Vietnam wannabe

  http://www.warbirdforum.com/ellis.htm
  Comment on the historian's lie about serving in the Vietnam War.

• Mount Holyoke College: Joseph Ellis

  https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/joseph_ellis
  Profile of Joseph Ellis with links to related articles.

• New York Times Books: Founding Brothers

  http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/ellis-founding.html
  An excerpt from and review of Ellis' The "Revolutionary Generation."

• The 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winners: History

  http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2001-History
  The 2001 citation for Ellis's "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," including a list of his other major works, biography, and the jurors.

• Time Magazine: A History Of His Own Making

  http://content.time.com/time/education/article/0,8599,165156,00.html
  Essay examining reasons why Ellis would have fabricated a story about a Vietnam tour of duty.

 

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