He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009. His article, “From Subjects to Citizens: Two Pierres and the French Influence on the Transformation of the Illinois Country,” appears in the anthology French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630–1815 (Michigan State University Press, 2013). He is currently working on a book for NIU Press entitled From Furs to Farms: Land, Race, and Sovereignty in the Mississippi Valley, 1762–1825. In this video, Reda describes the realities of tar and feathering during the American Revolution. Reporting the Revolutionary War section: Revolutionary War in the West and George Rogers Clark.