#  Distinguished Lecture by Megan Kate Nelson 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 11, 2020** 

 06:30PM - 08:00PM EST 

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  **Barker Center, Room 110**  



 

 



 

 Megan Kate Nelson will give one of our Spring 2020 [Distinguished Lectures in History & Literature](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/distinguished-lecture-series).

 Megan Kate Nelson earned her BA in History & Literature at Harvard, and her PhD in American Studies at Iowa. A former tutor in History & Literature, she has also taught at Texas Tech, Cal State Fullerton, MIT, and Brown. Her new book, *The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West*, will be published by Scribner in February 2020. This project was the recipient of a 2017 NEH Public Scholar Award and a Filson Historical Society Fellowship.

 Dr. Nelson is the author of two previous books: [Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War ](https://ugapress.org/book/9780820342511/ruin-nation/)(2012) and [Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp](https://ugapress.org/book/9780820334196/trembling-earth/) (2005). She has also written about the Civil War, the U.S. West, and American culture for *The New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation Magazine*, and *Civil War Times*. Her column on Civil War popular culture, "Stereoscope," appears regularly in the *Civil War Monitor*.



 

 



 

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