Ann M. Little, Professor of History at Colorado State University, will offer a lecture and discussion on, “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands.” The event, part of the Alice Stewart Lecture Series, will be held from 12:00pm-1:30pm in the Bumpus Room of Memorial Student Union.
The lecture 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 University Press book of the same title won the biennial Corey Prize of the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association as the best book in Canadian-US history.
Co-hosted by the Canadian-American Center; History; McGillicuddy Humanities Center; Modern Languages and Classics; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.