Brian DeLay teaches U.S. and the world, and borderlands history at the University of California, Berkeley. His research concentrates on connections between independent native peoples and the interlocked histories of American nation states. He is coauthor of the textbook Nation of Nations (2007), and author of The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008). He is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the reconfiguration of frontiers and borderlands in the Americas from the Seven Years' War to World War I.

Lecture topics:

• Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War
• War and Peace on the Southern Plains, 1820-1850
• John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark": Re-Reading an American Masterpiece

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