Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory book talk with author Claudio Saunt

<blockquote>“A major achievement…. [Saunt] manages to do something truly rare: destroy the illusion that history’s course is inevitable and recover the reality of the multiple possibilities that confronted contemporaries.”</blockquote><blockquote> - Nick Romeo, Washington Post</blockquote> Claudio Saunt explores “Indian removal” in the 1830s, when the United States deported 80,000 indigenous Americans from their eastern homelands. The fiercely contested policy marked a turning point for both the United States and Native peoples, and the unprecedented operation later became a model for colonial empires around the world. Claudio Saunt is the Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia, where he teaches and writes about Native American history. His most recent book is Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (W.W. Norton, 2020). Named a Washington Post top ten book and a New York Times critics’ best book of 2020, Unworthy Republic was a finalist for the National Book Award.Zoom link will be emailed out the day of the event to the email address used during registration.Purchase a copy of the book from <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/12358/9780393541564" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bookshop.org.</a>Questions? Contact Tess Galen at events@PhilaAthenaeum.org

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