Huntington Research Conference: This Land Is...

"This Land Is...: Common and Contested Ground in American History and Culture" examines the multilayered histories of American land in dialogue with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The range of panels will cover topics such as reframing the revolution, reconstruction amendments and the civil war, as well as mapping and unmapping borders. This 2-day conference deepens many of the stories in the exhibition “This Land Is …” and the companion volume of the larger Huntington initiative. In dialogue with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the institu…