Vistas and Dreams 2: Steven Conn

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Vistas and Dreams 2: Steven Conn

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"Vistas and Dreams: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Museum of the American Indian" is a special symposium that marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Museum of the American Indian’s predecessor institution, the Museum of the American Indian (MAI), by George Gustav Heye (1874–1957). In this segment, Steven Conn, Miami University, speaks on "How Indians Wound Up In Museums, or Where Did the Heye Collection Come From?" STEVEN CONN is the W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Before joining the faculty at Miami he was a professor in the history department at Ohio State University where he founded the Public History Initiative. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from Yale University. Conn is a specialist in American cultural and intellectual history of the 19th and 20th centuries, urban history, and public history. He is the author of numerous books including Museums and American Intellectual Life (University of Chicago Press, 1998), Do Museums Still Need Objects? (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), and Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2015). The symposium was recorded at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in the Alexander Hamilton U. S. Custom House in New York City on September 17, 2016.

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27 min 16 sec

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Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"

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National Museum of the American Indian

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National Museum of the American Indian

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Native Americans;American Indians

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