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The following videos are a production of Jeffrey Chown from the Northern Illinois University Department of Communication. Funding for the project was provided by: The Illinois Humanities Council, NIU Libraries, NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the NIU Foundation. The full video is entitled: Lincoln and Black Hawk.

• Introduction
• Black Hawk — "I am a Sauk"
• Lincoln and the Frontier, I
• Black Hawk and the Northwest
• Lincoln and the Frontier, II
• Lincoln and Native Americans
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, I
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, II
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, III
• Black Hawk Crosses the Mississippi, 1832
• The Militia Responds
• Stillman's Run
• Black Hawk's Flight
• Massacre at Bad Axe
• Black Hawk in Captivity
• Lincoln and the Black Hawk War
• Lincoln, the Black Hawk War, and Myth
• Epilogue

• Settlers and Native Americans Before the Black Hawk War, by John Mack Faragher, Ph.D., Yale University.
• Settlement of the Northwest Territory, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
• Native Americans and War Scares on the Frontier, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
• Native Americans and the French Empire in the Illinois Country, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
• Tecumseh, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
• Andrew Jackson and Federal Indian Policy, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
• Origins of the Black Hawk War, by James Lewis, Ph.D.
• Overview of the Black Hawk War, by James Lewis, Ph.D., Independent Scholar.
• Frontier Settlement and the Vision of an All-White Society, by Eric Foner, Ph.D., Columbia University.
• Abraham Lincoln's Militia Service in the Black Hawk War, by Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, IN.

These videos were made possible through a generous grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.