New Works in the Field: American Burial Ground

Name: New Works in the Field: American Burial Ground | The Huntington
Start: Thu, Nov 9 2023
Location: The Huntington

Event

Join Sarah Keyes and Peter Blodgett as they reinterpret the history of the Overland Trail by connecting death, burial, and the seeds of U.S. expansion.

Lectures

Sarah Keyes, assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses her new book, American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) with Peter Blodgett, The Huntington's former H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts.

Sarah Keyes, assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, specializes in the 19th century and the history of the U.S. West, with a focus on the environment and intercultural interactions between Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans.

Peter Blodgett is a historian of the U.S. West and the former H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at The Huntington.