Dr. Eugene R Tesdahl

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

• “Lead, Slavery, and Black Personhood in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 102.4 (Summer 2019): 17-27.
• "Mind the Gap: Academics, Interpreters, and Historical Interpretation," Journal of Interpretation Research 22.2 (2017), 73-75.
• Co-authored with Kevin White and Michael Galban, “LaSalle on Seneca Creation 1678,” American Indian Culture & Research Journal 40.4 (2016), 49-69.

Current Project

• Dans une cachette rouge: Smuggling along Iroquois, British, and French American Borderlands, 1701-1783, working title (Book-length manuscript in preparation).