Don Hickey is a retired professor of history who now concentrates on writing and public speaking.
Called “the dean of 1812 scholarship” by the New Yorker, Don has published twelve books and more than a hundred articles. He is best known for Nebraska Moments: Glimpses of Nebraska’s Past (1992) and The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (rev. ed., 2012). His latest book is Tecumseh’s War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America (2023). For promoting the public’s understanding of history, Don received the prestigious Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the USS Constitution Museum in 2013.
