Summer Speaker Series

The Historic Indian Agency House at Fort Winnebago (HIAH) will host its Summer Speaker Series this year, with one lecture per month from June to August. The speaker series is FREE to the public.  6:30pm
Author and Historian Mary Elise Antoine discusses "The War of 1812 in Wisconsin."

Agency House to Host Historian Mary Elise Antoine

The Historic Indian Agency House is excited to welcome Historian Mary Elise Antoine at 6:30pm on Tuesday, August 23. She will speak about her new book

The War of 1812 in Wisconsin: The Battle for Prairie du Chien.

The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from 1812 to early 1815, and involved the United States and the United Kingdom, Native Americans, and North American colonies. Antoine will discuss the involvement and alliances of various Native American tribes during the war, with a special focus on the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) people.

Mary Elise Antoine is the president of the Prairie du Chien Historical Society and former curator at Villa Louis. She has written numerous articles and books on Prairie du Chien, including two volumes with Arcadia Publishing. She is co-editor, with Lisa Murphy, of

Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien: History and Folklore from Wisconsin’s Frontier, forthcoming from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.

Antoine’s presentation is part of the Agency House

Summer Speaker’s Series. Signed copies of The War of 1812 in Wisconsin will be available for purchase.