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Frostburg State University will host “The Dakota 38: Remembering the Civil War as an Indian War,” a presentation by history professor Ari Kelman, on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. in room 232 of FSU’s Lane University Center. This event is free and open to the public.

In 1862, federal authorities in Mankato, Minn., oversaw the hanging of 38 members of the Dakota tribe, the largest public execution in U.S. history. This episode of violence on the frontier became the pivotal event in the Dakota War, which left hundreds of soldiers, settlers and Native Americans dead and millions of dollars’ worth of property in ruins. Kelman will place the Dakota War in the context of the American Civil War, suggesting that these two conflicts, long understood as separate, were intertwined and part of a broader struggle over the relationship between empire and liberty in the mid-19th century.

Kelman is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at Penn State University, where he teaches a wide range of history courses. He has written several books and received numerous awards and grants, most notably from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library. He is working on a book tentatively titled “For Liberty and Empire: How the Civil War Bled Into the Indian Wars.”

The lecture is funded by the Martha T. and Ralph M. Race Western History Lecture Fund through the FSU Foundation.

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