Erik Altenbernd and Alex Young welcome participants to the conference “The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History,” held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. They are introduced by William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

Panelists discuss “The U.S. Frontier in its Global Contexts” at the conference “The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History,” held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. On the panel were Brian Delay, University of California, Berkeley, History; Jay Gitlin, Yale University, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders; David Igler, University of California, Irvine; Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado at Boulder, Center of the American...

Panelists discuss “The Significance of the Frontier in American Culture after the Cold War” at the conference “The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History,” held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. On the panel were Krista Comer, Rice University, English; Melody Graulich, Utah State University, English; William Handley, University of Southern California, English; Enrique Lima, University of Oregon, English; Donald Pease, Dartmouth College, English; and John...

Panelists discuss “Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Studies, and the Concept of the Frontier” at the conference “The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History,” held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012. On the panel were Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois, American Indian Studies, English; Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska, History, Women’s and Gender Studies; Laura Mitchell, University of California, Irvine; Aziz Rana, Cornell University, Law; and Mark...

Patrick Wolfe, of La Trobe University (Melbourne), delivers the concluding keynote address to the conference “The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History,” held at The Huntington Library on Feb. 25, 2012.