The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier

Join us for an evening with Megan Kate Nelson as she explores the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West--Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants--in the nineteenth century. Her new book, The Westerners, tracks the attempts of many Americans to remove these individuals from history, through a frontier myth that lionized individualism and conquest and celebrated white settlers traveling west in search of prosperity. Members Free | $10 Non-Members | Free VirtualRegistration will open in August.