Richard Weyhing

Research/Areas of Expertise

Early America, Native American history, comparative history of early modern colonial empires in the Atlantic World.

Selected Publications

• "'They Closed Their Eyes and Threw Their Bodies in the Path of Death:' The Menominee at War in Early America, 1712-1756."  Ethnohistory (Forthcoming, July 2026)
• "'Apocalypse Then? Histories of Detroit’s First Tragedy, the ‘Fox Indian Massacre’ of 1712” in A Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit, Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K. Sturtevant eds. (Michigan State University Press, 2025).
• "Le Sueur in the Sioux Country: Rethinking France's Indian Alliances in the Pays d'en Haut."  Atlantic Studies (2013), Vol. 10, No. 1, 35-50.
• "'Gascon Exaggerations': The Rise of Antoine Laumet (dit de Lamothe, Sieur de Cadillac), The Foundation of Detroit, and the Origins of the Fox Wars" in French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815, Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale, eds.  (Michigan State University Press, 2013), 77-112.

Education

• Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2012
• M.A., The University of Chicago, 2005
• B.A., The University of Michigan, 2003

Classes taught

• American History to 1865
• Native American History
• Colonial America
• The American Revolution