{"id":3617,"date":"2024-06-10T16:38:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=3617"},"modified":"2024-06-10T16:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:38:56","slug":"dr-john-w-hall","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/dr-john-w-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John W. Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John W. Hall is an associate professor and the inaugural holder of the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. He served fifteen years as an active-duty infantry officer in the U.S. Army and is a former faculty member of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His research focuses on early American warfare with a particular emphasis on intercultural conflict and cooperation between European and Native American societies during the eras of the American Revolution and the early republic. He is the author of\u00a0<em>Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War<\/em>\u00a0(2009) and numerous essays on early American warfare. His current book project, &#8220;Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians,&#8221; examines how Andrew Jackson&#8217;s administration used military force to transform a contested borderland into part of a factious national domain. Within the field of military history, his research has focused on &#8220;small wars&#8221; involving irregular forces and U.S. defense policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3618,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-3617","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor and Holder of the Ambrose-Hesseltine Chair in U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison","speaker_last_name":"Hall","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3617\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}