Professor Jeffrey Ostler (University of Oregon), will conduct a virtual conversation about his 2019 book, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas(Yale University Press) with Ramapo professor Sarah Koenig, Ph. D., who teaches Native American History, and whose book, Providence and the Invention of American History, will be published by Yale University Press in Spring 2021.
Surviving Genocide… is based on a body of interdisciplinary scholarship that increasingly views the settlement of the early United States against the backdrop of the “elimination,” if not willful destruction, of its native peoples. In addition to outlining the political and legal history behind this expansion and its genocidal consequences, Ostler gives voice to the Native American leaders forced to deal with the survival of their people. The event will be held under the auspices of The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.