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Please join us on October 8 for a presentation by Andrew Wehrman (Department of History, CMU), entitled “D’oh! Pioneers: Unraveling Founding Myths with a Twitter Thread.” With only a little help from Lisa Simpson, Dr. Wehrman will offer a historian’s perspective on truth, fiction, and the stories we tell about who we are and where we came from. Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Isabella County Historical Society.

This event will be held on October 8, 2019, at 7:00 PM in Anspach Hall 162.

→ Open event flier (PDF)

1. I'd like to add my thoughts to the conversation about David McCullough's problematic new book "The Pioneers." McCullough's book is centered on the town of Marietta, OH, and for 4 years I lived and worked in Marietta as a professor of early American history at Marietta College. pic.twitter.com/oPgLN6g96U

— Andrew Wehrman (@ProfWehrman) May 13, 2019

• Dr. Wehrman’s Twitter thread

• David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019)

• The Simpsons, season 7, episode 16, “Lisa the Iconoclast”