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Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Distinguished Lecture S,Used
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An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. Arriving as the country commemorates the expeditions bicentennial, Across the Continent is not an exercise in demythologizing; rather, it is an examination of the explorers world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expeditionand at the interest in science, shared by Jefferson, that not only grew from the expedition but, to an extent, justified its undertaking. Finally, the discussion considers the various legacies of the expedition, in particular its impact on Native Americans, and the current struggle over who will control the narrative of the expansion of the American Empire.Contents* Introduction: Geopolitics, Science, and Culture Conflicts, Peter S. Onuf and Jeffrey L. Hantman, University of Virginia* Jeffersons Pacific: The Science of Distant Empire, 17861811, Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis* Securing America: Jeffersons Fluid Plans for the Western Perimeter, Jenry Morsman, University of Virginia* Thomas Jeffersons Conflicted Legacy in American Archaeology, David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History* A Nation Imagined, a Nation Measured: The Jeffersonian Legacy, Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University* Oates Foot: Histories, Landscapes, and Contested Memories in the Southwest, Douglas Seefeldt, University of Virginia
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