Professor Marni Sandweiss

Thursday, April 9 @ 7PM
Macalester College

John B Davis Lecture Hall
(located in Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center)
130 S Macalester Street, St. Paul, MN 55105

The Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest (YAANW), Brown Club of Minnesota, and Macalester College invite you to a talk with Marni Sandweiss, Professor of History Emerita at Princeton University and founding director of The Princeton & Slavery Project. Professor Sandweiss received her B.A. from Harvard in 1975 and her Ph.D. from Yale 10 years later. She will speak about her book "The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West."

 The book, published last year, uses a single photograph of a native girl and six white men taken at Fort Laramie in 1868 as a prism to examine the Westward expansion of the United States after the Civil War at the expense of the Native American population. Here's how it’s described by The American Scholar: 'Sandweiss’s forensic investigation of a single photograph widens the aperture to depict an astonishingly intertwined frontier society where everyone—soldier, trader, photographer, man, woman, Native, mixed-race, or white—was connected to most everyone else. The result is a fascinating snapshot of this “oddly intimate” world, a bubbling cauldron of people constantly on the move, in contact or in conflict, their lives beset by unremitting public and familial violence.'

 After the 7 pm presentation, light refreshments will be shared and there will be books available for purchase. Tickets are $15, please register below.
 

Parking is available in Visitor Lots 1, 2 and 3. Please proceed from the lots to the Campus Center and check in at the main door.

Register here

Questions? Contact events@yaanw.org