Thomas Jefferson Visits Colorado State University June 9 As Part Of American West Program's Summer Of Events
Monday, June 8, 1998
FORT COLLINS--The 21st American West Program at Colorado State
University will
feature a visit by Thomas Jefferson in the form of Clay Jenkinson, nationally
recognized authority on
the third president of the United States. The program, free and open to the
public, begins at 7:30 p.m.
June 9 in the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center.
Jenkinson joins a series of speakers visiting campus this summer to
explore Western expansion
under the program's theme, "Manifest Destiny and the West to 1850."
Jenkinson travels the country presenting scholarly and spontaneous
impersonations of the life
and ideals of Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, author
of the Declaration of
Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Liberty, scientist,
farmer, man of letters, architect,
paleontologist, linguist, political theorist, diplomat, librarian and
utopian.
In 1994, Jenkinson portrayed Thomas Jefferson before President and Mrs.
Clinton, members of
the Cabinet, legislators, Jefferson scholars and hundreds of guests for a
commemorative program that
marked the 250th anniversary of Jefferson's birth.
Jenkinson, who is a Rhodes and Danforth scholar, was presented the
National Endowment for
the Humanities' Charles Frankel Prize in 1989 for exemplary work in the
public humanities. He was
consultant to PBS documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and created the nationally
syndicated radio
show, "Thomas Jefferson Hour." Jenkinson, on leave as humanities instructor
at the University of
Nevada at Reno, has appeared in 30 states on more than 1,000 occasions.
Other highlights of the American West Program include a talk on John
Charles Fremont's
fourth expedition into the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado, a
discussion on the Alamo and a
presentation on Manifest Destiny and the rise of modern journalism.
All programs begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
Programs will take place
in Room 113 Natural Resources Building except for Jenkinson's presentation,
which will take place in
the North Ballroom of the Lory Student Center.
In conjunction with the American West Program, the summer exhibit of
the Curfman Gallery
in the Lory Student Center will feature the artwork of William Henry Jackson.
A complete schedule of events follows.
* June 9 - "Mr. Jefferson and the West," Clay Jenkinson, Lory Student Center
North Ballroom.
* June 16 - "Trail to Disaster: John Charles Fremont's Fourth Expedition into
the San Juan Mountains
of Southern Colorado," Patricia Joy Richmond, historian and teacher from
Crestone.
* June 23 - "Manifest Destiny and the Rise of Modern Journalism," Charles
Rankin, editor of
Montana, The Magazine of Western History from the Montana Historical Society.
* June 30 - "The Alamo: The Mexican View," Daniel Martinez, historian for the
National Park
Service.
* July 7 - "Conquest of New Mexico and the Invasion of Chihuahua, Mexico: A
Forgotten Episode of
the U.S.-Mexican War," Neil Mangum, superintendent of Little Big Horn
Battlefield National
Monument in Montana.
* July 14 - "Manifest Destiny and Indian Removals," Valerie Mathes, professor
in the department of
social science at City College of San Francisco.
* July 21 - "Los Capitalistas: New Mexican Merchants and the Santa Fe Trade,"
Susan Calafate
Boyle, independent historian from Fort Collins.
* July 28 - "The Western Hero and Manifest Destiny - Boone, Crockett and
Carson," Paul Hutton,
history professor at the University of New Mexico.
For more information on the American West Program, call Harry Rosenberg
in the history
department at 491-5230.
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