Pigs for Historians: A New View of Early America

Peter Mancall, University of Southern California professor of history and anthropology, is an advocate for an ecological approach to studying colonial America. One of the most innovative scholars working today, he asks us to consider our country's past as the result of complex interactions among people, animals, and land. Join him as he explains the specific importance of horses, turtles, and glowworms to particular time and place, and what it means that the ancestors of today's Americans and the forebears of modern swine once flourished together.

This program is presented in partnership with The Newberry Library and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.

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