Brown Bag Excavating the Western Indian Mound and Building the American Archive 3 January 2018.Wednesday, 12:00PM - 1:00PM Derek O'Leary, University of California, Berkeley

Settlers and travelers moving westward in the early republic encountered the myriad Indian mounds scattered along the American frontier. These sundry earthworks furnished ample grist for various projects: frontier infrastructure, literary nationalism, the national historical narrative, and—as this talk explores—the emergence of American archives.

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