Wednesday, December 3 2014, 3:30pm The University Chapel, North Campus Ari Kelman, the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, will present a program on his recent award-winning book, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek. A Misplaced Massacre has been the recent recipient of the Avery O. Craven Award, the Bancroft Prize and the Tom Watson Brown Book Award. A Misplaced Massacre explores the struggles over how notorious the Sand Creek massacre of 1864 was and how it should be remembered as the Sand Creek Massacre National Historical Site. The work recounts how National Park Service employees, Colorado ranchers, scholars, politicians and descendants of victims of the Sand Creek massacre worked together to develop an appropriate memorial that questions how the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized. Kelman combined research of the stories of those who lived through the atrocity, with those still grappling with its troubled legacy, to reveal, in novel form, how the intertwined histories of the conquest and colonization of the American West and the U. S. Civil War left enduring national scars. The event is open to the general public. A book signing will follow Kelman’s presentation. Sponsored by the T.R.R. Cobb House, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Amanda and Greg Gregory Chair in the Civil War Era and the Southern Roundtable. Research Area: U.S. 19th & 20th Century
