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The Sheboygan County Historical Research Center will be hosting a 1-day symposium on the Black Hawk War on Saturday, November 2, 2019, at the Plymouth Arts Center, 520 East Mill Street, Plymouth, Wisconsin. The Center is proud to announce that four noted scholars will discuss various aspects and unique perspectives about the conflict, which took place in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin during 1832. Dr. Kerry A. Trask, Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, will present “’The Centre Cannot Hold:’ The Collapse of Sauk Society and the Black Hawk War.” Dr. Patrick J. Jung, Professor of History & Anthropology at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, will present “Situating the Black Hawk War Within a Century of American Indian Anti-Colonial Resistance.” Dr. Libby Tronnes, Assistant Professor of History at Bradley University will present “Protectors of the Corn Moon: How the Rock River Ho-Chunks Hid 1,200 Fugitive Indians & Mired U.S. Troops During the Black Hawk War.” Abraham Lincoln historian Steven K. Rogstad will present “’I Fought, Bled, and Came Away:’ Abraham Lincoln’s Experiences in the Black Hawk War and Their Influence on Him as President.” Registrations are open to the public and should be made online at schrc.org, or by sending a check to: SCHRC, 518 Water Street, Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085. Fee is $50.00 per person. Inquiries can be made by calling the Center at 920-467-4667. “The Black Hawk War was the final violent struggle between Native people and Euro Americans, east of the Mississippi River, to control the geography and resources of the still-unsettled area within the Northwest Territories of the American Midwest. This area is the geographical heart of the American nation.” – Kerry A. Trask. Dr. Kerry Trask is the author of Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America (2006). Dr. Patrick J. Jung has authored The Black Hawk War of 1832 (2007) and The Battle of Wisconsin Heights 1832: Thunder on the Wisconsin (2010).
