Travel Grant Presentation via Zoom Tonight!
Amy Hughes
by Michigan Tech Archives
Tonight (Nov. 16) at 6 p.m., Camden Burd will share his research on meaningful placemaking in the Copper Country titled “Post-extractive Futures: Re-Imagining Copper Mining Country in the Mid-Twentieth Century.”
In the years after the Second World War, the economy in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula underwent massive changes. Mines closed, unemployment rose and deindustrialization began to define Michigan’s Copper Country. In the wake of these economic changes, boosters, politicians and local residents began to reimagine the future of the region. Some saw the area as a tourist destination. Others sought to preserve the floundering extractive industries by any means necessary. Others yet saw the region as a prime location for Cold War infrastructure building. In his presentation, Burd will explore the motivations that fueled these proposals in order to grapple with ideas of place and placemaking during a period of dramatic change.
Burd is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. His work on environmental history has appeared in multiple venues, including the Michigan Historical Review, IA: The Journal for the Society of Industrial Archaeology and a recently published collection, The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest.
Please join us on Zoom for this free and open event!
If you have any questions about our Travel Grant Program Speaker Series or other Archives programs and services, please contact University Archivist Lindsay Hiltunen at leha...@mtu.edu or cop...@mtu.edu.
Be sure to follow the Michigan Tech Archives on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!