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...