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

•  “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).