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SUMMARY:Land-Grab Universities - Dr Robert Lee\, History Faculty\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge
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DESCRIPTION:In 1862\, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act\, w
 hich distributed public domain land to raise funds for fledgling colleges 
 across the United States. In popular memory\, this law launched the celebr
 ated land-grant university system with a gift of free land. But the truth 
 is more complicated: The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated f
 rom tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all\, the act 
 redistributed nearly 10.8 million acres from more than 250 tribal nations 
 for the benefit of 52 colleges. This talk will examine the results of an i
 nvestigation that combined digital tools with archival research to reconst
 ruct the Morrill Act's geographic and financial footprint\, tying universi
 ty beneficiaries to the Indigenous nations whose lands underwrote their pr
 osperity.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography
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