Kevin Starr’s Public History of California

Friday, January 5, 2024: 3:50 PM
Yosemite B (Hilton Union Square)
Anthea Marie Hartig, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
From the perspective of a wider lend of American history focused on justice and reckoning, and California’s role in the narrative, this presentation locates Starr in the history of American chroniclers, locating Starr as a distinctly public historian.