Join Benjamin Madley, associate professor of history at UCLA, for a conversation at the Hammer Museum at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Madley is a historian of Native America, the United States and colonialism in world history. The UCLA historian received the 2016 Heydey Books History Award, which celebrates California's history and environment while giving a voice to its indigenous peoples. Madley's current research explores Native American labor in the making of the western United States.
His book, "An American Genocide: the United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873" chronicles the decline of the Californian indigenous population throughout the 1800s.
A book signing with the author will follow. Hammer Museum admission is free. Early arrival is recommended.
