Stephen Aron, professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and executive director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center, is a specialist in frontier and western American history. He is author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (1996) and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State (2005), and coauthor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present (2002, 2008). He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Can We All Just Get Along: An Alternative History of the American West.

Lecture topics:

• The Legacy of Concord in the American West
• The Lives and Afterlives of Lewis and Clark
• Returning the West to the World
• The Newest Western History

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