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Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Presented by Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum at Colorado College: Gaylord Hall, Colorado Springs CO

Nov 11 2023
Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Amy Kohout, Associate Professor of History at Colorado College, will explore the intersection of ideas about nature and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. by tracing the ways soldiers in the U.S. Army made sense of the landscapes of their service in both the U.S. West and the Philippines.

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Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

By following these imperial pathways back and forth across the Pacific, Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Amy Kohout is an Associate Professor of History at Colorado College.

She works on U.S. cultural ... view more »

ADMISSION INFO

This program is free and open to the public.

Reservations are required.

Reserve your spot now: give.cspm.org/LectureSeries

Phone: (719) 385-5990

Website: https://www.cspm.org/lectureserries

LOCATION

Colorado College: Gaylord Hall

902 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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