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Genealogy & the Power of Connection in Early America

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Dr. Karin Wulf, Brown University historian, will discuss her new book, and take questions about the importance of documenting kinship for Early Americans of every background in this Zoom webinar.

Wulf's new book, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America, describes how genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties; it was a powerful force that shaped society. English, African and Indigenous men and women used written family histories to demonstrate legitimacy in eighteenth-century America.

Karin Wulf is the Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History at Brown University. A historian of “Vast Early America,” she earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and was the Executive Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and Professor of History at The College of William & Mary. She has also taught at American University and Old Dominion University. The author or editor of prize-winning scholarship on gender, family, and politics, she writes regularly for both public and academic audiences about early American history, the humanities, and archives and libraries.

This program is funded by the Friends of Memorial Hall Library. 

This program will be recorded. A link to the recording will be shared with everyone who registers.

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