What Does the Revolutionary War Mean for Us Today?
August 27, 2026 -
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Fireside chat with author and Egan Visiting Professor Rick Atkinson.
This event is part of We the People: A Duke and Durham Initiative (opens in new tab)
This event is cosponsored by POLIS: Center for Politics and the Provost’s Initiative on Pluralism, Free Inquiry and Belonging
Rick Atkinson is the author of eight narrative histories about five American wars. His most recent book, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, debuted as the #1 New York Times nonfiction bestseller. Atkinson has served as the Gen. Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College, where he remains an adjunct faculty member. He is a Presidential Counselor at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society, and an inductee in the Academy of Achievement, for which he also serves as a board member.
Location: East Duke 201 - Nelson Music Room

