native american Archives - Adam M. Sowards

On Historical Thinking; Thinking about Technology

21JanuaryAdam M. Sowardshistoryadam greenfield, native american, plains, technology

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

Dispossession in a Minute: On Shifting Perspectives

14JanuaryAdam M. Sowardshistorydispossession, history, maps, native american

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 in an archive unable to

Adam M. Sowards

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On Historical Thinking; Thinking about Technology

Dispossession in a Minute: On Shifting Perspectives