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Noted historian Bernard Unti will give a presentation on his research into Victorian American at 6 p.m. March 2 at McKissick Museum.
The program is free and open to the public.
Unti's presentation is titled "Not a Small Count: Emotional Bonds, Religious Morality, and the Humane Treatment of Animals in Victorian America." He will address the complex and evolving relationship between 19th century morality and public policy.
Unti is a senior staff member at the Humane Society of the United States and is responsible for helping that organization to formulate national policy. He is also the author of Protecting All Animals: a Fifty-Year History of the Humane Society of the United States. This talk is part of McKissick Museum's series of public programs in conjunction with its major exhibition, "Pets in America."
McKissick Museum is located on the University of South Carolina's historic Horseshoe and is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For more information about this and other programs, contact McKissick at 7-7251; go to the museum's website at www.cas.sc.edu/MCKS/index.html; or go to the "Pets in America" project website www.petsinamerica.org.
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