Steven Conn is associate professor of history at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
"History's Shadow is an intelligent and comprehensive look at the place of Native Americans in Euro-Americans' intellectual history during the period bracketed by the Lewis and Clark expedition at the beginning of the 19th century and the Wounded Knee massacre at its close. Examining literature, painting, photography, ethnology, and anthropology, Conn mines the written record to discover how non-Native Americans thought about Indians and what influence those ideas had upon the development of American science, social science, and history. . . . The most fascinating aspect of Conn's book is his account of the rise of anthropology and the ways in which the 'scientific' study of culture erased the history of the native peoples as well as the story of Euro-American responsibility for their condition."--Joy S. Kasson, Los Angeles Times --Joy S. Kasson "Los Angeles Times"
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