Center for Mark Twain Studies to hold lectures
COURTESY OF ELMIRA COLLEGE
The Center for Mark Twain Studies will hold the first of four online lectures in the spring portion of the 2020-21 The Trouble Begins Lecture Series on May 7.
All four lectures will be free and available at marktwainstudies.org. The first topic, “Mark Twain s Roadshow: Travels, Travails, and the Inspirations of a Literary Giant,” will be presented by independent scholar, Laura DeMarco. DeMarco will bring lesser known stops on Twain’s travels alive by pairing historic images with modern day viewpoints of the same location from the same angle and perspective, revealing how many of the sights important to Twain are significant today, and how his legacy continues to influence American culture.
The Redbud City: It happened in February
Clyde Wooldridge
Contributing writer
1851 - The Indian Appropriations Act was the name of several acts passed by the Congress. A considerable number of acts were passed under the same name throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. From the outset, the most notable landmark of the acts was the one of 1851.
The official name was the “Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs,” passed on Feb. 27, 1851. The act allocated funds to move western tribes onto reservations. Reservations were protected and enclosed by the federal government. According to the government at that time, reservations were created to protect the Native Americans from the growing encroachment of whites moving westward. This act set the precedent for modern-day Native American reservations.