Princeton University Press
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands
In After One Hundred Winters, award-winning settler historian Margaret Jacobs confronts, from both a personal and academic standpoint, the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples. She reveals how elusive reconciliation has been, past and present, in the U.S. and other settler colonial nations, but also documents promising grassroots efforts to heal historical wounds and make redress for our nation’s haunted past.
Overview
In After One Hundred Winters, award-winning settler historian Margaret Jacobs confronts, from both a personal and academic standpoint, the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples. She reveals how elusive reconciliation has been, past and present, in the U.S. and other settler colonial nations, but also documents promising grassroots efforts to heal historical wounds and make redress for our nation’s haunted past.
Margaret Jacobs is the Charles Mach Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published more than 35 articles and 3 books, primarily about Indigenous child removal and family separation. Her book, White Mother to a Dark Race, won the Bancroft Prize in 2010. In 2017, she co-founded the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and in 2018, Reconciliation Rising, a multimedia project.
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University and the National History Center) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partners (the George Washington University History Department and the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest) for their continued support.
Moderators
Christian F. Ostermann
Woodrow Wilson Center
Eric Arnesen
Professor of History, The George Washington University. Director, National History Center of the American Historical Association.
Panelists
Liza Black
Joshua L Reid
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