From 26 July to 1 August, 2009, Barbara Alice Mann ventured to Australia, brought in as the honored guest of the University of Newcastle, in the state of New South Wales, near Sydney, Australia. Based on her well-known book, George Washington’s War on Native America (2005, pb 2008), as well as advance buzz on The Tainted Gift:The Disease Method of Frontier Advance (2009), currently in production, she was there as a member of a hand-selected group of international scholars studying massacres of Native peoples around the world during colonial period from 1780 to 1820. On 30 July, as part of her tenure, Mann gave a well-received lecture, “Conquest of Empire,” to the humanities faculty of the University. In addition, she workshopped with her colleagues, planning a book on the same topic, for which she will be writing three chapters. Mann’s chapters will center on the “Creek War,” also called “The Red Sticks War,” of 1813-1814. This book will come out in 2012. In addition, along with each of her colleagues, she will produce an 8,000-word article for a special issue of a British Commonwealth journal on colonialism, to be published in 2010. Much as she enjoyed working with her international colleagues, Mann says that she most enjoyed her visit with the aboriginal peoples of Australia, comparing notes, drinking tea, and eating delicacies.