Despite the invasion and seizure of their homeland by the United States during the early nineteenth century, the Ho-Chunk people remained—and remain today. They developed knowledge about the United States, its settlers, and its citizenship that helped them defeat the campaign to exile them from Wisconsin. In this Focus on the Humanities Lecture, Kantrowitz explores what their struggle and their victory mean for our understanding of American history.
This event is a collaboration with Our Shared Future.
Stephen Kantrowitz is Plaenert-Bascom and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 (2012) and Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000).
