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Lecture & Book Signing: Thundersticks by David J. Silverman
Copies will be available at 20% off!
David J. Silverman , Professor of History, George Washington University will discuss his new book:
Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America , Harvard University Press, 2016
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Reception
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm: Lecture & Discussion
6:45 pm: Book Signing
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples-a cultural earthquake so profound that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic terror they inspired than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another. "A good measure of a work of history is whether it changes the way we understand its subject. By that measure, David J. Silverman succeeds admirably in Thundersticks. " -- Thomas E. Ricks, The New York Times Book Review "Silverman's compelling rediscovery of the 'gun frontier,' imaginatively conceived and deeply researched, is must reading." -- Daniel K. Richter Research for Thundersticks was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Library Company, and by a Library Fellowship and a grant from the Phillips Fund for Native American Research at the American Philosophical Society. This event is co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.
The Library Company of Philadelphia is generously supported in part by:
Sight Expansion: The German Influence on American Photography
Sight Expansion: The German Influence on American Photography
Lunchtime Lecture
Program Includes Lunch
Friday, Febuary 26
12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
W. & F. Langenheim, On the Wissahickon, Near Philadelphia (Philadelphia, ca. 1860). Albumen print stereograph.
Co-sponsored by the German Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia presents Harvard Professor John Stauffer as he examines the profound influence of German photographers on the making and meaning of American photography during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A small exhibit of historic photographs by German-American photographers from the Library Company's collection including work by German Society of Pennsylvania members Frederick Gutekunst and the Langenheim brothers will be on display.
Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Library Company of Philadelphia, German Society of Pennsylvania members, and students: $10.00
General public: $15.00