“It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence. ”
History Department, CSU, Chico
William Campbell
Research
Dr. Campbell's current research explores the interplay between colonial and indigenous representatives in the northeastern borderlands during the eighteenth-century. Specific attention is paid to the 1768 treaty held at Fort Stanwix, the Haudenosaunee, Crown agents, and the Ohio River Valley.
Publications
Professor Campbell has published/forthcoming articles and book reviews in a number of journals and forums including Ontario History, European Journal of American Studies, Journal of the West, Pennsylvania History and H-Amstdy. He has also contributed to Treaties with American Indians (ABC-Clio, 2007) and The Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America (M.E. Sharpe, 2007).