Native Americans in the Revolution Lecture

Native Americans in the Revolution Lecture Saturday November 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is a free, in-person talk hosted on by Princeton Public Library in Princeton, WI. No registration is necessary for this event. This talk will not be available virtually.
Learn about the history of Native Americans during the Revolutionary War. This talk is made possible through Badger Talks, the UW Madison speakers bureau.

John W. Hall is our speaker for the evening. He is the Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at UW–Madison. He holds a B.S. in History from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He specializes in American military history with particular emphasis on early and Native American warfare. He is the author of Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War (Harvard University Press, 2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare, including “An Irregular Reconsideration of George Washington and the American Military Tradition,” Journal of Military History (July 2014), which won an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Prize. He is a past president of the Society for Military History and a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, with past assignments as a historian to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. European Command, U.S. Central Command, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.