West

The Robert C. Baron Lecture, named after the past AAS chair and president of Fulcrum Publishing in Denver, invites a distinguished AAS member who has written a seminal work of history to reflect on one book and its impact on scholarship and society since its publication. Patricia Nelson Limerick will be exploring the ways in which her book, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, would have been improved by spending time in the AAS archives.