The Department of History welcomes Dr. Claudio Saunt, Professor of History-University of Georgia, to the 31st Athearn Lecture Series.

"Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory"

Thursday, April 7, 2022 / 5PM / HUMN 250

Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the Ridenhour Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana. In 2018, he received an NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to produce an online, interactive time-lapse map of the African, Native, and European populations in North America between 1500 and 1800.

Reception to follow in the Humanities Living Room (HUMN 170)

For mor information on this event contact Elizabeth.Fenn@colorado.edu