Bladen Community College will kick off its 2015 spring semester Writers Series programs on Tuesday, January 26, with a program featuring author and history professor Dr. David La Vere. He will present a program centering on the Tuscarora War of 1711-1715. He was previously a guest presenter in the series in 2011, when he gave a well-received program on the Lost Colony.
La Vere, a former Marine infantryman, is well-known for his research on the history and culture of the Southeastern American Indian tribes as well as the Indians of the Southern Plains and Texas.
Born in New Orleans, Dr. La Vere earned a bachelor of arts in history and journalism and a master of arts in history from Northwestern State University in his native Louisiana. He completed a Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University.
His specialty is American Indian History and he teaches several graduate and undergraduate history classes at the University of North Carolina – Wilmington. He also conducts research on the American Indians of the Southeast, especially those in the Carolinas.
He has published seven books: The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies (2013), The Lost Rocks: The Dare Stones and the Unsolved Mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony (2010) Looting Spiro Mounds (2007), The Texas Indians (2004); Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory (2000); The Caddo Chiefdoms (1998); and Life Among the Texas Indians (1998).
In addition, La Vere has published a number of articles in periodicals, a number of which have earned him awards. Some of the articles he has written include: “The 1937 Chowan River ‘Dare Stone’; A Reevaluation;” “Minding Their Own Business: The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Business Committee of the Early 1900s;” and “Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821.”
The program will be held in the Library located in Building 7, the Student Resource Center. The public is invited.
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