Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814

About the Editors and Contributors

— 391 — AbouttheEditorsandContributors Carl Benn is the Chief Curator of the City of Toronto’s Museums and Heritage Services. He has curated about twenty museum exhibits and has worked on eleven historic building restoration projects. He is author of Historic Fort York, 1793–1812 (Natural Heritage, 1993), The Iroquois in the War of 1812 (University of Toronto Press, 1998), and approximately seventy other historical and museological publications . He also teaches at the University of Toronto in the Department of History and in the Museum Studies Program. Charles E. Brodine Jr. is a historian with the Early History Branch of the Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C., where he has worked since 1987 as an assistant editor on Naval Documents of the American Revolution and The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History. Mr. Brodine is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently at work on a dissertation entitled, “The American Career of Henry Bouquet.” Andrew R. L. Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is the author of The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780–1825 (1986) and Frontier Indiana (1996) and co-editor of A b o u t t h e E d i t o r s a n d C o n t r i b u t o r s — 392 — Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi (1998) and The American Midwest: Essays in Regional History (2001). Robert Cox, a Curator at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, has a variety of interests in early American history, including the history of QuakerIndian relations, theories and practices of race, somnambulism, and Spiritualism. Brian Leigh Dunnigan has served as Curator of Maps at the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan since 1996. Dunnigan has written extensively on the history of the Niagara and Straits of Mackinac regions of the Great Lakes and, most recently, on early Detroit. His article is a result of research for Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701–1838, (Wayne State University Press, 2001). R. David Edmunds is Watson Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has written extensively upon the Indians of the Great Lakes Region in such books as The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (University of Oklahoma Press, 1978) and Trecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (HarperCollins, 1984). W. J. Eccles was born in England and educated in Montreal and died in 1998. During his career, he taught at the universities of Manitoba, Alberta, and Toronto. His book Frontenac the Courtier Governor received the 1959 Book Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. Among his other publications are Canada Under Lois XIV, 1663–1701, The Canadian Frontier, 1534– 1760, and The French in North America, 1500–1783. E. Jane Errington is Chair of the Department of History at the Royal Military College of Canada and professor of History at Queen’s University, Kingston. Her works include the Lion, The Eagle and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology and Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Women and Work in Upper Canada. She is currently completing a manuscript on the emigrant experience in the first half of the nineteenth century. A b o u t t h e E d i t o r s a n d C o n t r i b u t o r s — 393 — Eric Hinderaker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. He is the author of Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800. R. Douglas Hurt is professor and director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural History and Rural Studies at Iowa State University. He is author of The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830 (Indiana University Press, 1996). Philip Lord Jr. is Director, Division of Museum Services, New York State Museum, where he manages the Cultural Resource Survey Program. Recent research projects have focused on waterways-linked systems of transportation and technology in the Early Republic Period, roughly 1790–1830. His current research documents little-known late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century navigation improvements on the inland waterways of Upstate New York before the Erie Canal. Michael A. McDonnell is a lecturer in American History at the University of Wales, Swansea. His forthcoming book, Popular Mobilization and Political...