Join NCHGS in conversation with Dr. Andrea Lynn Smith, historical anthropologist exploring settler-colonialism, memory and forgetting, and place-loss.
Dr. Smith’s new book, Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779, contrasts the official story of a Revolutionary War expedition with that told by Seneca and other Native American leaders and at Haudenosaunee cultural centers.
Previous publications consider colonial nostalgia with the award-winning Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France (2006); the silencing of Native and Latino voices in local history museums in the American southwest; and the role of place-loss in community identities in the aftermath of forced removal in Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (2016).
This program is free for NCHGS members and $5.00 for non-members. A Zoom link will be sent to all participants via email upon registration.