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From Manassas to Mankato: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars

Ari Kelman
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Ari Kelman, UC Davis
History Department Colloquium

Ari Kelman is a Chancellor's Leadership Professor of History at UC Davis. He is the author, most recently, of Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (Hill and Wang, 2015), as well as A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek (Harvard University Press, 2013), recipient of the Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award, the Avery O. Craven Award, the Bancroft Prize, the Tom Watson Brown Book Award, and the Robert M. Utley Prize, and A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (University of California Press, 2003), which won the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Kelman has also contributed to outreach endeavors aimed at K-12 educators, and to a variety of public history projects, including documentary films for the History Channel and PBS's American Experience series. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, most notably from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library. He is now working on a book tentatively titled, For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars, editing the journal Reviews in American History, and serving as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Planning in the College of Letters and Science.

Contact: Jamie Hardy