“Jamie Myers: The Formation of Chickamauga Towns”

The Horry County Museum presents “Jamie Myers: The Formation of Chickamauga Towns” in collaboration with Coastal Carolina University and the South Carolina 250th Commission on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 1 p.m. This lecture will cover The Formation of Chickamauga Towns: A Study of Cherokee Gender, Kinship, and Resistance in the Revolutionary Era.

Jamie Myers is as historian of American Indians of the Southeastern United States. She received her B.A. in history from Truett McConnell University, her M.A. from the University of North Georgia and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She is currently an associate professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, where she teaches courses on American Indian history, the history of global Indigenous peoples and the colonial and early American history.

Her talk will be based on the recently published essay entitled The Formation of the Chickamauga Towns: A Study of Cherokee Gender, Kinship, and Resistance in the Revolutionary Era in the Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation edited by Craig Friend and Lori Glover.

The program is free to the public and will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street in Conway. For more information, call (843) 915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.

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