An Evening with Ned Blackhawk – SOLD OUT

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Join us for an evening with National Book Award Winner Ned Blackhawk, author of “The Rediscovery of America: Native People and the Unmaking of U.S. History.”

We will have a reception and book signing at 5 p.m., followed by Blackhawk’s lecture at Magic City Books selling copies of “The Rediscovery of America.”

Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is a professor of history and American studies at Yale IUniversity and was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A graduate of McGill University, he holds graduate degrees in history from UCLA and the University of Washington and is the author of “Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West” (Harvard, 2006), a study of the American Great Basin that garnered half a dozen professional prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians.

In addition to serving in professional associations and on the editorial boards of American Quarterly and Ethnohistory, Blackhawk has led the establishment of two fellowships, one for American Indian students to attend the Western History Association’s annual conference and the other for doctoral students working on American Indian studies dissertations at Yale named after Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago, Class of 1910).

Seating is limited, and registration is required for this free event.