Adam M. Sowards — Taking Bearings

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On Historical Thinking; Thinking about Technology

Three facts: 1. I am teaching Native American history as a standalone course for the first time. 2. According to many, history (or the humanities more broadly) is not especially relevant today or for the future. 3. Technologies are rearranging our daily lives in fundamental ways. I want to connect

Dispossession in a Minute: On Shifting Perspectives

The visualization unfolds briskly, envelops the continent with a relentlessness that shocks. Almost an entire continent consumed in a century; from Native land to a nation’s land, sped up to a minute. The continent is eaten away as if by acid, the edges crumbling like old letters long stored

The Trump Administration's Review of National Monuments Smacks of Paternalism

"The Trump Administration's Review of National Monuments Smacks of Paternalism," History News Network (May 28, 2017). The Trump Administration’s Review of National Monuments Smacks of PaternalismOnce again the federal government is talking down to Native Americans.History News NetworkAdam M. Sowards