[History Hounds] Muddy Ground, Part II: Why Chicago Matters to Early American History with John Williams Nelson, Texas Tech University

Join our presenter for the second part of his book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent, to learn how Chicago posed challenges to the American ideas of settlement, and the how the city's incorporation reveals broader patterns of conquest across America’s frontiers.

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