Removal and the Right to Remain in the United States

Humanities Lecture and Discussion with Samantha Seeley, Ph.D.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 5 pm, Henkelman Room, Albright Memorial Library, Scranton, PA 

Samantha Seeley, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. Her book, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the Early United States, highlights early efforts at U.S. nation building and the use of migration to construct a white republic. Situating the struggles of Native and Black Americans into the larger story of the early U.S, Seeley argues for a more inclusive way to tell the story of forced removal and its implications on early U.S. statehood. 

Speakers

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Samantha Seeley, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond and author, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the Early United States

 

 

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Event sponsors:

  • The University of Scranton
    • Campus partners include the Slattery Center for the Ignatian Humanities, History Department, and the Office of Community and Government Relations
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Black Scranton Project
  • Lackawanna County Arts & Culture
  • Lackawanna Historical Society
  • Scranton Public Library 
  • WVIA