Academic Pioneers (Side 2)-HCC-Stewart Co
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N 32° 02.383 W 084° 47.100
16S E 709151 N 3546983
At Westville at the Arbor
Waymark Code: WMA735
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2010
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The first Westville Symposium on precolumbian transoceanic contacts was a significant event in American historiography and was followed by similar meetings here in 1974 and 1975. More than 150 people participated in this series of talks. Many of those who assembled at Westville have become leaders in the revisionist movement in American history that has grown since that time. Although strongly resisted by conservatives, this new history promises a more accurate understanding of precolumbian Americans as an interacting component of world society and not as an isolated culturally backward segment of mankind as the NEBC school had taught
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: none
Date: 1988
Sponsor: Historic Chattahoochee Commisison and the Institute for the Study of American Cultures
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