Join historian William Campbell, PhD (University of Memphis), for a discussion on "Facing West after the War of 1812: Resistance and Removal in Indian Country."

In his hour-long talk, Campbell will consider the two decades that followed the War of 1812, which witnessed the death and displacement of thousands of Native Americans in the United States. He will discuss the impact the end of the war had on numerous first peoples, colonizers and U.S. policy makers – and potential lessons that could be drawn as they relate to the ending of conflicts today.

Campbell's research interests include early North America (to 1830), Native Americans, treaties, borderlands and frontiers, and Canada. His most recent published work is Speculators in Empire: Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix (New Directions in Native Studies, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012; paperback, 2014).

This event is part of the McConnell Center's three-part lecture series on "America at the End of War."