Dr. Laura J. Arata
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I am a historian specializing in public history and the history of the American West. I work as an Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University, and as a historical consultant. My current research focuses on Virginia City, Montana, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. I examine the complicated ways that residents of that location viewed matters of race through the life of Sarah Bickford, a slave from Tennessee who lived in Virginia City from 1871 until her death in 1931.

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