Doing History and Fighting for It: A Conversation with Anne Hyde

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion with distinguished historian Anne Hyde of the University of Oklahoma. Editor of the flagship journal, the Western Historical Quarterly, Professor Hyde is a leading historian of migration, family, and empire across hundreds of years of western American history. Her new work examines perpetrators of mass violence in the western past, especially as enacted against Indigenous people. As a prominent spokesperson for the importance of historical study and curriculum, Hyde is deeply involved in supporting scholars and teachers impacted by the culture wars of our times.

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) is a center for scholarly investigation of the history and culture of California and the American West. Through sponsorship of innovative scholarship and research, ICW draws on the resources of the University of Southern California and The Huntington Library to build an innovative and unique collaboration between a research university and a research library.