French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest

Length: 12h 51m
Chapters: 21
Language: English
Genre: Early Modern

Few Americans today realize that Michigan and Wisconsin were once part of French Canada. French influence in the region continued through the eighteenth century, decades after France ceded Canada to Great Britain at the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763. In this volume, Wisconsin’s French past is recounted by historian Louise Phelps Kellogg. Born in Milwaukee, Kellogg earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1901, where she studied under the noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner. She spent much of her career at the Wisconsin Historical Society, conducting research and publishing books and articles on the history of the American Northwest. Kellogg begins…