Tag "Haudenosaunee"
By Editor August 14, 2026

Colloq with Glenda Goodman

“Teaching White Brother to Listen: The Ambiguous Incorporation of Samuel Kirkland in Kanadasaga, 1765-1766” A colloq with Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania). Please note that all colloquia papers are pre-circulated. Please register via the link below to receive a copy. The twenty-two-year-old Samuel Kirkland left school early to embark on his first mission in a Seneca village, Kanadasaga,… Read More

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By Eugene R.H. Tesdahl November 21, 2017

Smuggling, the American Revolution, and the Riverine Highway

Today’s post accompanies “Smuggling and the American Revolution,” episode 161 of Ben Franklin’s World and part of the Doing History 2: To the Revolution! series. You can find supplementary materials for the episode on the OI Reader app, available through iTunes or Google Play. Smuggling. We have been conditioned to resent the word and the act. Smuggling brings to mind all sorts of seedy images: Prohibition, drug mules from Mexico, arms traffickers in the Middle East, even cigarette smugglers between the US and Canada. Rarely does smuggling elicit images of the American Revolution, and yet contraband trade routes and the dynamic women and men who navigated them deeply influenced the Revolutionary War and the birth of America. Read More

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