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"The Big Three of 1763: Niagara, Detroit, and Michilimackinac"

Brian Leigh Dunnigan

Will explore, in depth, the physical surroundings of Fort Niagara, Fort Detroit, and Fort Michilimackinac.

 

About the Speaker:

Brian Leigh Dunnigan

Brian Leigh Dunnigan has served as Curator of Maps at the Clements Library since November 1996. He is also Head of Research and Publications and, as such, edits and produces the Quarto, the Library's semi-annual publication, and introduces new readers to the research collections.

Mr. Dunnigan is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA History; 1971, MA History, 1973) and the State University of New York, Cooperstown Graduate Programs (MA, Museum Studies, 1979). Before coming to the Cements, he pursued a career in historic site administration as Executive Director of Old Fort Niagara (Youngstown, NY) from 1979 to 1996 and Managing Director of Historic Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne, Indiana) from 1974 to 1979. Previous experience included seasonal museum positions with Mackinac State Historic Parks.

Mr. Dunnigan has written numerous books and articles on the history of the Straits of Mackinac, the Niagara River region, and the early Great Lakes. In 1994 and 2004 he edited new translations of Pierre Pouchots Memoirs on the Late War in North American (1994 and 2005), the only account of the French and Indian War from the French Perspective published during the eighteenth century.

His Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2001 to mark the occasion of Detroit's Tercentennial celebration. He is currently at work on an iconographic history of the Straits of Mackinac region before 1860.

Mr. Dunnigan is a Michigan native and resides in Grass Lake with his wife Candice and two children, James and Claire.

Brian Leigh Dunnigan
791X1105

 

 

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March 20-21, 2010
March 19-20, 2011
March 17-18, 2012


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