Summary: For Black History Month: public historian Tiya Miles. She's a MacArthur "genius" who's unearthing an especially painful chapter of the American experience -- the intersecting history of African-Americans and Native Americans, and the little-known narratives that Cherokee landowners held black slaves. Even with history this difficult, Tiya Miles shows us the possibility of stretching the canvas of the past wide enough to hold both hard truths and healing.
