He has made four documentary films himself. He has appeared in three Ken Burns documentary films, including the most recent film The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. Robert Oppenheimer, and John Wesley Powell. He has portrayed a dozen historical characters, including Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Meriwether Lewis, J. He has been named Humanities Scholar of the Year in Kansas, Nevada, and North Dakota.Ĭlay was one of the creators of the modern Chautauqua movement. All of his degrees are in Renaissance English literature.Ĭlay has won numerous awards, including the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor conferred on a public humanities scholar in the United States. He attended the University of Minnesota, Oxford University, and the University of Colorado. Clay Jenkinson grew up on the western plains of North Dakota, not far from Theodore Roosevelt’s badlands.
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