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In this reframing of American history, Brown University historian Linford Fisher traces the institution of slavery back to the earliest days of colonial settlement. Stealing America demonstrates how the enslavement of Indigenous people began just after 1492 and, for centuries following, was a key feature of land dispossession and colonial expansion.
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won brings to life our nation’s racial history, told through one man’s family story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery in 1851 through to today.
Moderated by Lee Hawkins
Join Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Victoria Johnson and American Ancestors Curator of Fine Art Curt DiCamillo to explore the life and work of Frederic Church, the great nineteenth-century American artist. Glorious Country reveals how Church’s stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culture.