Tue, Jun 24
|Washington
Profs & Pints DC: The Great American Road Trip
“The Great American Road Trip,” a look at how long journeys and tales of them have shaped our nation, with Allen Pietrobon, historian and professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University.
Time & Location
Jun 24, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Great American Road Trip,” a look at how long journeys and tales of them have shaped our nation, with Allen Pietrobon, historian and professor of Global Affairs at Trinity Washington University.
American history and popular culture are infused with travel narratives, be they accounts of wagon-train journeys to settle the west, descriptions of life aboard steamboats plying our great rivers, or memoirs of modern cross-country road trips.
Why are tales of cross-country travel such an integral part of American culture? What can our nation’s long tradition of road tripping teach us about our country and ourselves?
Get ready for the summer travel season by hearing such questions tackled at DC’s Penn Social. The speaker, Allen Pietrobon, is a historian who has earned a following among Profs and Pints fans by delivering spellbinding talks on prohibition, the gilded age, the race to build the atomic…