Beyond Jefferson: The Randolphs, Hemingses, and the Idea of the West, 1820-1900

Date: 
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Time: 
3:30PM-5:00PM
Event Location: 
Nau 342

Christa Dierksheide, "Beyond Jefferson: The Randolphs, Hemingses, and the Idea of the West, 1820-1900." Dierksheide is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri.  She is the author of Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in the Plantation Americas (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014).