Hirsch Keynotes SU Native American Heritage Month Celebration November 30

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University’s sixth annual Native American Heritage Month celebration culminates on Thursday, November 30, with a keynote address by Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian historian Mark Hirsch.

His presentation, “Doing Public History at the National Museum of the American Indian,” is 6:30 p.m. in Fulton Hall Room 111. He discusses the challenges and rewards of public history in Washington, D.C., for indigenous societies and cultures.

Hirsch earned his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University. His research has included 19th- and 20th-century social and cultural history, U.S. Native American policy, contact between Native Americans and Europeans, and the making of the modern world.

Sponsored by the History Department, Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts and Fulton Public Humanities Program, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-677-4601 or visit the Fulton Public Humanities Program website at http://www.salisbury.edu/history/public-humanities.html.