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History Talk Replay
January 12, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
FreeIf you missed the Bidwell House Museum’s 2019 History talk series then join us one Sunday each month over the winter to watch a screening of those talks. First up is Vassar Professor James Merrell who presented Coming to Terms with Colonial America: Another Look at Natives and Other Early Americans on June 15.
Scholarly study of Native Americans before ca. 1800 has flourished recently, extending our knowledge of Indian peoples during that era well beyond Squanto and Pocahontas. Nonetheless, to a surprising degree, when talking about the continent’s first peoples we still use language that would be familiar to William Bradford and Capt. John Smith. Is thinking about our loaded vocabulary an exercise in “political correctness”? Or is it simply “correctness”?
Born and raised in Minnesota, James Merrell is the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of American history at Vassar College. Recipient of several fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH, he is the author of The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal and Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. Both books won the Bancroft Prize; Into the American Woods was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
These screenings are free, but as there is limited seating, pre-registration is appreciated.
If you missed the Bidwell House Museum’s 2019 History talk series then join us one Sunday each month over the winter to watch a screening of those talks. First up is Vassar Professor James Merrell who presented Coming to Terms with Colonial America: Another Look at Natives and Other Early Americans on June 15.
Scholarly study of Native Americans before ca. 1800 has flourished recently, extending our knowledge of Indian peoples during that era well beyond Squanto and Pocahontas. Nonetheless, to a surprising degree, when talking about the continent’s first peoples we still use language that would be familiar to William Bradford and Capt. John Smith. Is thinking about our loaded vocabulary an exercise in “political correctness”? Or is it simply “correctness”?
Born and raised in Minnesota, James Merrell is the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of American history at Vassar College. Recipient of several fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEH, he is the author of The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal and Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. Both books won the Bancroft Prize; Into the American Woods was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
These screenings are free, but pre-registration is appreciated.
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