Join FHS Historian Jamie Lewis as he engages in Conversations in Forest History with leading historians, artists, researchers, policy makers, and newsmakers as they apply their historical knowledge to current topics. Each conversation opens with a short presentation before Jamie and his guest take questions from the audience. Topics include the decline of the majestic American hemlocks and beech trees, the introduction to forest carbon markets and to ESG, a history of the US Forest Service district ranger in popular culture, and the challenges of heir property rights and Black forestland ownership.

In The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory, Susan A. Brewer traces the history of a parcel of land in central New York and the stories of the two families—her own European settler family and the Mohawk/Oneida family of Polly Denny—who called it home. Her talk considers the struggle over land, tales of pioneer progress, and native dispossession. Although these two families lived as neighbors for centuries, they clashed over beliefs and practices regarding the land and its forests, streams, and soils.

Susan A. Brewer is the author of The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory (2024). As a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1990-2015, she taught American history and specialized in the history of US Foreign Relations. She now lives in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York.

To learn more and register, visit: https://foresthistory.org/education/fhs-webinar-series/conversations-series/#:~:text=Join%20FHS%20Historian%20Jamie%20Lewis,historical%20knowledge%20to%20current%20topics.