Patrick N. Allitt (born 1956) is a British historian and academic who serves as the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. He has written seven books on religious history, education, politics and environmental history, and has produced several lectures for The Great Courses.
He held the Arthur Blank Chair for Teaching Excellence at Emory University and was, for five years, director of Emory's Center for Teaching and Curriculum.[1] He is now the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.[2][3]
His scholarship has been widely reviewed in the leading history journals. Professor Lawrence Moore of Cornell University says "Any writer who has attempted to track a subject through a long stretch of time appreciates how difficult it is to balance the requirement of inclusiveness with a consistent elaboration of central themes. Patrick Allitt in his confident survey of American religion since World War II succeeds in this task far better than most and has produced a volume of immense value to university students, general readers, and scholars needing a reliable reference source."[5]
^Allitt, Patrick. (2005). I'm the teacher, you're the student : a semester in the university classroom. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN0812238214. OCLC54905602.
^Allitt, Patrick (2014). A climate of crisis : America in the age of environmentalism. New York. ISBN9781594204661. OCLC852221839.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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