The Winter 2021 Virtual Lyceum theme is Entangled Stories, with five lectures focusing on connections in nature, art, history, culture, and human life. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the lectures and discussion will be held via Zoom. Advance registration is required and the lectures will be recorded and posted on the Grange YouTube channel. Scroll down to register or CLICK HERE.
Legacies of 1609: Entangled Cultures of
War in the Champlain Valley
SUGGESTED READING LIST FROM MATT KEAGLE:
Christian Ayne Crouch. Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 2016).
David J. Silverman, Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016)
Timothy J. Shannon, “The Native American way of war in the age of revolutions, 1754-1814” in Chickering, Roger, and Stig Förster, eds. War in an age of revolution, 1775-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
David Hackett Fischer, Champlain's Dream (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009)
John Grenier, The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Ian Kenneth Steele, Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the "Massacre" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
Adam J. Hirsch, “The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England” The Journal of American History Vol. 74, No. 4 (March, 1988): 1187-1212.
Donald E. Worcester and Thomas F. Schilz, “The Spread of Firearms among the Indians on the Anglo-French Frontiers” American Indian Quarterly Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring, 1984): 103- 115.
The arrival of Europeans to the Champlain Valley in 1609 fundamentally changed how Indigenous and European societies practiced war, with repercussions on both sides for centuries.
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Keagle studies the history and material culture of warfare in the long 18th century as the Curator of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum.
The Winter 2021 Lyceum lectures will be presented via Zoom. You can access them through your computer, smartphone, or by dialing in on a regular phone (audio only). You must register IN ADVANCE so we can email you the Zoom link. You can register for the entire series or for an individual lecture. We will record the lectures and make them available later if you can’t watch them live. Click on the button below to register.
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