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ABOUT THE TALK
Look at a map of the United States and you'll see the familiar cluster
of states in North America, plus Hawai'i and Alaska in boxes. But what
about Puerto Rico? What about American Samoa? The country has held
overseas territory--lands containing millions of U.S. nationals--for
the bulk of its history. They don't appear often in textbooks, but the
outposts and colonies of the United States have been central to its
history. This talk explores what U.S. history would look like if it
weren't just the history of the continental states but of all U.S.
land: the Greater United States.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Daniel Immerwahr ) is an associate professor of history at
Northwestern University, where he teaches global history and U.S.
foreign relations. His first book, _Thinking Small_ (Harvard 2015), a
history of U.S. grassroots antipoverty strategies, won the
Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for best work
of U.S. intellectual history. His second, _How to Hide an Empire_, a
retelling of U.S. history with the overseas parts of the country
included in the story, is a national bestseller. Immerwahr is
currently working on two research projects, one one the pop culture of
U.S. global hegemony, the other a book about nineteenth-century urban
catastrophes. Immerwahr's writings have appeared in the _New York
Times_, _Washington Post_, _The Guardian_, _Slate_, _The Nation_, and
_The New Republic_.
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