OAH Lecturer | Colin G. Calloway

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OAH Distinguished Lectureship
Program 2009-2010
Colin G. Calloway

 

Colin G. Calloway
Dartmouth College

Colin G. Calloway is professor of history and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College; he also is serving his fourth consecutive term as chair of the Native American studies program there, after having served as editor and assistant director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library. His books include, most recently, White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America (2008); The Shawnees and the War for America (2007); The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006); One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003), which won six "best book" awards; and First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (1999). He has also edited several collections of essays and documents, including Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience (2004). He is currently writing a book on Native Americans and Dartmouth College.

Lecture topics:

  • Highland Scots and American Indians
  • Indian Country and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Indians and the French and Indian War
  • American Indians and the American Revolution
  • Indians and American History
  • New England Indians and New England's History

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