Miles Community College is excited to announce two library speaker series that will be held on Wednesday, January 24 at 6:30 pm, and Friday, January 26 at 6:45 pm. These events will take place in the Judson H. Flower Jr. Library on the MCC campus.
The speaker on Wednesday, January 24 will be President Richard Littlebear from Chief Dull Knife College on the history of the Northern Cheyenne and Tribal College Education.
President Littlebear has served as the President of Chief Dull Knife College since 1999 and currently works as both the President and the Interim Dean of Cultural Affairs. Along with Northern Cheyenne history, President Littlebear will be discussing how communities can best understand and use that rich history to provide welcoming environments.
The speaker on Friday, January 26 will be Dr. Kimberly K. Porter. Her presentation is entitled “World War I on the Prairie: Theodore Roosevelt’s War Against Isolationism.”
Dr. Kimberly K. Porter received her doctorate in history from the University of Iowa in 1995, where her dissertation on the Farm Bureau was supervised by renowned scholar Ellis Hawley, whose book, The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order remains a standard in the field of post-World War I scholarship. Upon arriving at the University of North Dakota in 1996, she established herself as a leading scholar in late 19th and early 20th century American history, teaching courses on the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, World War I, the 1920s and the New Deal. Immersing herself in North Dakota history, Dr. Porter became an expert in the formation and function of the Nonpartisan League, researching and writing extensively on various aspects of the organization in addition to supervising a regular graduate seminar promoting continued scholarly research on a subject vital to the political history of North Dakota. In 2008, Dr. Porter cemented her position as the foremost living authority on the state of North Dakota with the publication of North Dakota: 1960 to the Millennium, the sequel to Elwyn B. Robinson’s famed 1966 volume, The History of North Dakota, which set the professional standard for state histories. Her undergraduate course in North Dakota history remains one of the most popular electives at the university. In addition to teaching, researching and writing, Dr. Porter served a long tenure as editor of The Oral History Review, the journal of record for oral history in English.
The library speaker series brings cultural events to Miles City several times throughout the year, hosting diverse speakers presenting on a variety of subjects--often through a partnership with Humanities Montana. The Judson H. Flower Jr. Library speaker series at Miles Community College is always free and open to the public.
