Northern Great Plains History Conference

29. Presidential Leadership
(Sponsored by the Society for Military History)
Fercho Room, Fargo Public Library
Chair: Margaret Sankey, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
“Applying Game Theory and Adversarial Problem Solving to the War Strategies
of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis from February 18, 1861 through July
21, 1861”
Evelyn Buday, University of Findlay
”Analysis of James Madison’s Wartime Legacy”
Zachary D. Ball, University of South Dakota
Comment: Donald F. Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College
30. North Dakota and the Northern Plains
The Loft
Chair: Kathy Davison, State Historical Society of North Dakota
“How North Dakota Was Added to the United States”
William E. Lass, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“The Boldest Man That Was Ever on the Missouri: Alexander Harvey and the
Upper Missouri Fur Trade”
Richard K. Stenberg, Williston State College
“Northern Plains Wagon Trains of 1862-1867”
Arch Ellwein, Sidney, Montana
Comment: Robert Willoughby, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith
31. The US-Dakota War of 1862: Memory and Commemoration
Prairie Rose B
Chair: Kate Roberts, Minnesota Historical Society
How do you tell history when people disagree about what happened? After 150
years, the US-Dakota War of 1862 remains the most difficult and contentious
piece of Minnesota’s story. Minnesota Historical Society staff members worked
with descendants of those touched by the war to develop an exhibit, an
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