OLD FORT NIAGARA’S CABIN FEVER LECTURE SERIES

OLD FORT NIAGARA’S CABIN FEVER LECTURE SERIES CONTINUES ON FEBRUARY 27
YOUNGSTOWN, NY – After a successful kick-off to its annual Cabin Fever lecture series in January, Old Fort Niagara presents the second speaker in the series. Dr. Roger Carpenter of the University of Louisiana at Monroe will present “Kinship and Gender Terms in Anglo-Native Diplomacy” on Saturday, February 27 at 2 p.m. in the Old Fort Niagara Visitor Center. There is free admission to the Cabin Fever series, which is underwritten by the New York Council for the Humanities, and future lectures are scheduled for March 27 and May 1.
Dr. Carpenter has taught courses in Native American history, Colonial America, Revolutionary America, the American West and the U.S. survey at several different institutions. He has written a number of publications including The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Huron and the Iroquois, 1609-1650. Dr. Carpenter has also published articles in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, The Journal of Early American Wars and Armed Conflicts and the Michigan Historical Review.

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