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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
FUTURE SHOW DATES
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March 20-21,
2010
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March 19-20,
2011
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March 17-18,
2012
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