What we remember often differs from what actually happened, but how do we know? Lake Fellowship alum and current Augsburg University student, Leah Tift, will guide a discussion through the example of housing in the United States to reexamine our assumptions of history in order to better serve the present.
In this presentation, Leah will distill ideas about history, memory, and the burden of awareness from from scholarly books such as:
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest
Environmental Inequalities: Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980
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