Dr. Eugene Tesdahl
Contact Info
Campuses and Colleges
- UW-Platteville
- College of Liberal Arts and Education
Appointments and Roles
Associate Professor
0154 Gardner Hall
Associate Professor
Gardner Hall
Associate Professor
Gardner Hall
Committees and Groups
Member of Academic Planning Council
Faculty of LAE
Biography
About
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Colorado at Boulder
- M.A., History, Miami University
- B.A., History (Secondary Ed.), Museum Studies, Luther College
Specialties
- Early North America
- Indigenous America
- Atlantic World
- Women’s History
- Public History
Courses
- HIST2330: Intro to U.S. History I
- HIST3120: Colonial American History
- HIST3520: American Women’s History
- HIST3170: Native American History and Colonial Borderlands
- HIST3180: Modern Native America: What you thought you knew
- HIST4660: Public History Cooperative Field Experience
Recent Publications
- “The sum of three hundred and thirty dollars”: Illegal Slavery, Black Entrepreneurs, and the Driftless Lead Boom, 1827-1865, Mining History Journal 31 (2024) .
- “Lead, Slavery, and Black Personhood in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 102.4 (Summer 2019): 17-27.
Current Project
- Dans une cachette rouge: Smuggling along Iroquois, British, and French American Borderlands, 1701-1783, working title (Book-length manuscript in preparation).