Treasures of colorados early history. And most of what we do focuses on the early of the first half of the 19th century. And that makes marx lecture that much appropriate to us and we have begun to read a land acknowledgment statement which id like to read to you for our imaginations, who call colorado home, since its in 1999, this Historic Centers Mission Statement has recognized and celebrated native American Indian cultures tesoro, a signature annual june created in 2000, is the indian and powwow celebrating todays American Indian nations and featuring award artists and intertribal powwow competitors. American indian patriots who fought bravely in american wars and many of colorado indian nations are honored at this event, this public reaches thousands of visitors. Tesoro acknowledges the forbidden the ute nations, the kiowa, southern and northern cheyenne, the southern and northern arapaho, the pawnee, the lakota and many other indian nations that call this beautiful land, home in
Distinguished professor of history emeritus at the u of a. He earned his ph. D. At the university of colorado and the story that we hear is that he went to colorado study the history of the american south, but he was told they dont do that at university of colorado. And so he said so. Instead, he went on to become one of the leading scholars of the American West. He has written nine scholarly books, the last indian war, the nez pares story, the essential west. Hes won numerous prizes for his research, including the casey prize from the western historical association, the Francis Parkman prize from the society of american historians and the billington from the organization of american, those of you that have the good fortune to have been in class with him know that he is an outstanding teacher. Hes been recognized with the sec faculty Achievement Award arkansas professor of the year recognition from the carnegie foundation, and he was also named a finalist for the Robert Foster cherry a
That he went to colorado study the history of the american south, but he was told they dont do that at university of colorado. And so he said so. Instead, he went on to become one of the leading scholars of the American West. He has written nine scholarly books, the last indian war, the nez pares story, the essential west. Hes won numerous prizes for his research, including the casey prize from the western historical association, the Francis Parkman prize from the society of american historians and the billington from the organization of american, those of you that have the good fortune to have been in class with him know that he is an outstanding teacher. Hes been recognized with the sec faculty Achievement Award arkansas professor of the year recognition from the carnegie foundation, and he was also named a finalist for the Robert Foster cherry award for the nations best College Teacher. We think hes the nations best College Teacher for sure. His latest book, the of tonights talk, is
He earned his ph. D. At the university of colorado and the story that we hear is that he went to colorado study the history of the american south, but he was told they dont do that at university of colorado. And so he said so. Instead, he went on to become one of the leading scholars of the American West. He has written nine scholarly books, the last indian war, the nez pares story, the essential west. Hes won numerous prizes for his research, including the casey prize from the western historical association, the Francis Parkman prize from the society of american historians and the billington from the organization of american, those of you that have the good fortune to have been in class with him know that he is an outstanding teacher. Hes been recognized with the sec faculty Achievement Award arkansas professor of the year recognition from the carnegie foundation, and he was also named a finalist for the Robert Foster cherry award for the nations best College Teacher. We think hes the
Well, this is a very important exhibition. Its titled 18 1898 us imperialism, visions and revisions and it really marks a milestone in our efforts to shine a light on overlooked aspects of u. S. History that have been crucial to determine our present and that have been really unexamined. And so in this case, we are taking a look at the events that turned the United States into a world power in 1898. Those events were what u. S. Textbooks called the spanishamerican war, which my cocurator, kate clarke lemay, and i prefer to call the war of 1898, because that way we can consider other countries that were part of that conflict. Right. Not just the us and spain, but also guam, cuba, the philippines, puerto rico, the joint resolution to annex hawaii, which happens during the war of 1898 and the philippineamerican war, which happens on the heels of the war of 1898. And as a consequence of the United States not recognizing the claims of independence, that for the philippines that Emilio Aguin