Join the Department of History and Marc Carpenter, historian and UO alumnus, for a talk on "Finding Accidental Archives of Atrocity."

Prof. Carpenter describes how an undergraduate research project slowly led him into uncovering new troves of evidence proving broad norms and knowledge of often-genocidal pioneer violence in the 1800s Pacific Northwest. Archives assembled to honor the invaders accidentally preserved proof from the perpetrators—and from the historians who loved them and lied for them.