Resources 2009–2010
Book Talk II
Reading Assignment
Frontier Indiana
Session Videos
Andrew Cayton
Historian
Andrew Cayton, author of Frontier Indiana, Distinguished Professor of History, Miami University (Ohio)—see below for more information.
For his workshop on February 16, Professor Cayton plans to help us think about the overall question of Frontier Indiana, which is how the Americans (citizens of the US) established dominion over the region bringing to an end what we still call a frontier period and establishing the basic structures/values of modern Indiana's variation on American themes. He is planning to focus primarily on the period 1800-1830, i.e., the last couple chapters of the book, deemphasizing military conquest somewhat so as to focus on the remaking of physical, cultural and social landscapes, with particular attention to Monroe County as example.
Historian Faculty
Andrew Cayton—Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, teaches courses in the history of North America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has written extensively about the struggle for control of the region west of the Appalachian Mountains and the emergence of political and cultural borders within the United States. In addition to Frontier Indiana, his interest in empires and borderlands as well as questions of power and consent led to his collaboration with Fred Anderson in The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005) and to his current work, also with Fred Anderson, Imperial America, 1672-1764. Professor Cayton is also co-author of a high school history textbook, America: Pathways to the Present.