The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story... A Conversation with Tiya Miles & Kristin Hass

Presented by The Author's Forum Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:30 PM Room 100, Hatcher Graduate Library

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950s.

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Tiya Miles

Tiya Miles is associate professor of history, American culture, Afro-American studies, and Native American studies at the University of Michigan and was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. Her first book, Ties That Bind: The Story of An Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, won the Organization of American Historians' Turner Prize and the American Studies Association's Romero Prize.

Kristin Hass

Kristin Hass is associate professor of American culture at the University of Michigan and the author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (University of California Press, 1998).

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The Author's Forum is a collaboration between the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan Library, Great Lakes Literary Arts Center, and the Ann Arbor Book Festival.

Additional sponsorship for this event provided by the Departments of History, Comparative Literature, and Afroamerican and African Studies.

For more info on this event, visit http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities or http://www.lib.umich.edu/gallery.