News Summary

• Dee Brown was born in 1908 in Alberta, Louisiana, grew up in Ouachita County, Arkansas and then Little Rock.
• He trained to be a historian and librarian and then went to George Washington University for graduate study.
• He got a job as a librarian for the Department of Agriculture in 1934 and stayed there until 1942.
• In 1948, he took a job in the library at the University of Illinois, where he would stay for the rest of his career.
• In Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown presented the flip side of the stories of western conquest that had so enchanted Americans since the late 19th century.