Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago by Ann Durkin Keating, a professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, is military and cultural history book, free for a limited time courtesy of the the University of Chicago Press.
This is an accessibly-written academic history which mainly focuses on the Battle of Fort Dearborn during the War of 1812, but also provides historical and cultural backgrounders about the situation with the local Potowatomi Native American peoples, and also the early cross-cultural history of Chicago, as well as follow-up repercussions for decades after the war which would affect the treatment of the people and the shaping of Chicago. Maps of the battlefield are included.
Offered through the month of August, available worldwide.