Cone Family Lecture Celebrates 35 Years of American Indian History at UW

Sept. 8, 2006 -- The University of Wyoming will celebrate “35 Years of American Indian History” Wednesday, Sept. 13, from 5-7 p.m. in the College of Agriculture auditorium.

Two former Department of History faculty members, R. David Edmunds and Brian Hosmer, will speak during the 10th annual Susan B. Horton Cone Family Distinguished Lecture.

The speakers have a wide range of knowledge on American Indian history at UW. Edmunds, the Watson Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Dallas, will discuss “Kindling the Fire: Native American History and the University of Wyoming in the Early 1970s.”

Hosmer, director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at Chicago’s Newberry Library and a professor at the University of Chicago, will discuss, “The Historian and American Indian Communities; Reflections from the Newberry Library and the University of Wyoming.”

Edmunds, who taught at UW from 1971-1975, was the history department’s first American Indian history faculty member. Hosmer, a former head of the Department of History, was a UW faculty member from 1996-2002.

The Cone lecture series is supported by an endowment established by the late Susan Horton Cone for the UW Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences. Cone, a 1930 UW graduate in liberal arts, sought to provide the Wyoming community with an outstanding lecture in history each year. She and six other members of her family graduated or attended UW.

Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006