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Presented in partnership with Colorado College History Department
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum presents the 2023 lecture series, featuring a wide range of speakers offering diverse perspectives and unique insights on Pikes Peak regional history. Please note that due to our HVAC project and the temporary closure of the 1903 El Paso County Courthouse, this lecture will be held at Colorado College.
LOCATION & PARKING
This lecture will be held at Colorado College (Gaylord Hall, Worner Campus Center, 902 N. Cascade Ave). Visit the Colorado College website to see a campus map.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (University of Nebraska, 2023) examines the intersection of ideas about nature and empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by tracing the ways soldiers in the U.S. Army made sense of the landscapes of their service in both the U.S. West and the Philippines. By following these imperial pathways back and forth across the Pacific, Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Amy Kohout joined the History department at Colorado College in 2016, after serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Environmental Studies department at Davidson College during 2015-2016. She earned her B.A. in history from Yale University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Cornell University. She works on U.S. cultural and environmental history, and her research and teaching interests include the U.S. West, American empire, the Civil War and Reconstruction, museum studies, the history of natural history, world’s fairs, and the craft of writing history.
Amy’s first book, Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers is forthcoming with the University of Nebraska Press, as part of their new Many Wests series. In 2020-21, she held the David J. Weber Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. She is a 2022-2024 participant in the Bright Institute at Knox College.
Her work has been published in Museum History, Sustainability Science, Rethinking History, The Appendix, and A Companion to the History of American Science. Amy has worked on public-facing, collaborative projects centering historical research and writing; she was a co-founder of Backlist, a digital site where historians recommend books they love, and before that she served as an editor at The Appendix, a journal of narrative and experimental history.
