Author Event | In Whose Ruins

In Room 108
Historian Alicia Puglionesi will discuss her
latest book, which Kirkus called “a first-rate work of historical
research and storytelling.” Winding through the US landscape, from Native
American earthworks in the Ohio Valley to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico,
the book is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire’s power. The first
commercial oilfields in Western Pennsylvania and the Susquehanna River's
hydroelectric dams make the mid-Atlantic region central to these resource
narratives that are spiritual and political as well as economic. Puglionesi
will be in conversation with Jared Farmer, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of
History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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