LUNCH PROVIDED
Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands” in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, Thursday, Oct. 3 from noon to 1:30 pm (with free lunch!).
Emphasizes the methodology in writing about a person with little traditional historical evidence to document her life, and the connections and continuities she forged across linguistic, religious, and cultural borders in the eighteenth-century northeast. Ann Little’s 2016 Yale Univ. Press book, “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands” won the biennial Corey Prize of the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association as the best book in Canadian-US history.