Book presentation by Andrew Szarejko: “American Conquest: The Northwestern Indian War and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy”

Andrew Szarejko, assistant professor of political science at Wartburg College, will offer this presentation on his book, American Conquest: The Northwestern Indian War and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press).

The first war fought by the United States as an independent nation was not against Britain, but against Native nations of the Ohio River Valley in the Northwest Indian War (1790–1795). In this innovative study, Szarejko shows how this early conflict shaped enduring patterns of American expansion, military strategy, and foreign policy—challenging the myth of U.S. isolationism and placing Indigenous politics at the center of international relations.