James Ronda, one of the country’s most respected Lewis and Clark historians, will give his final lecture of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in Smith CUE 203. He has titled his talk, “And in Conclusion … James Ronda Sums Up Lewis and Clark.”
Ronda, the H.G. Barnard Professor of Western American History at the University of Tulsa, has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his writing on western American history. He has authored eight books on Lewis and Clark. He was keynote speaker at the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial kickoff held at Monticello in January 2003 and since then has given hundreds of lectures across America.