For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars

As part of Native American Heritage Month, Ari Kelman, PhD, will discuss his latest book titled For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled into the Indian Wars.

Kelman is a Chancellor’s Leadership Professor of History at the UC Davis, where he also serves as faculty advisor to the chancellor and provost. He is the author of Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War (2015); A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek (2013), recipient of several national awards and honors, including the Bancroft Prize; and A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (2003), which won the Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Kelman’s essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, The Journal of American History, The Journal of Urban History and many other publications. 

He has contributed to outreach endeavors aimed at K-12 educators, and to public history projects, including documentary films for the History Channel and PBS’s American Experience series. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library; served on a variety of editorial boards, including for The Journal of American History and Oxford University Press, as well as program and prize committees; and held several administrative posts. 

For more information, email Michaela Reaves at reaves@callutheran.edu. Sponsored by Artists and Speakers and the Cal Lutheran History Department.