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Native Americans

The Author’s Corner with W. Dale Weeks

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 23, 2023

W. Dale Weeks is Instructor of History at Blinn College. This interview is based on his new book, Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty (University of Oklahoma Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]

The Author’s Corner with John C. Winters

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 17, 2023

John C. Winters is Assistant Professor History at the University of Southern Mississippi. This interview is based on his new book, “The Amazing Iroquois” and the Invention of the Empire State (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth Ellis

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 30, 2022

Elizabeth Ellis is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. This interview is based on her new book, The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]

The Author’s Corner with Christen Mucher

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 10, 2022

Christen Mucher is Associate Professor of American Studies at Smith College. This interview is based on her new book, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Before American […]

The Author’s Corner with Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 20, 2022

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is Assistant Professor of History at Montana State University. This interview is based on her new book, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). JF: What led […]

The Author’s Corner with Lori J. Daggar

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 29, 2022

Lori J. Daggar is Associate Professor of History at Ursinus College. This interview is based on her new book, Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led […]

The Author’s Corner with Jeffers Lennox

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 12, 2022

Jeffers Lennox is Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University. This interview is based on his new book, North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]

The Author’s Corner with Kyle Mays

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 13, 2022

Kyle Mays is Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. This interview is based on his new book, City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of […]

The Author’s Corner with Matthew Dougherty

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 11, 2022

Matthew Dougherty is Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. This interview is based on his book, Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America (University of Oklahoma Press, […]

The Author’s Corner with Carla Cevasco

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 5, 2022

Carla Cevasco is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. This interview is based on her new book, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast (Yale University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Violent Appetites? CC: In grad […]

The Author’s Corner with Lance Greene

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 21, 2022

Lance Greene is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wright State University. This interview is based on his new book, Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (University of Alabama Press, 2022). […]

The Author’s Corner with Matthew Kruer

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 27, 2022

Matthew Kruer is Assistant Professor of Early North American History at the University of Chicago. This interview is based on his new book, Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2022). […]

The Author’s Corner with Anne F. Hyde

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 4, 2022

Anne F. Hyde is Professor of History and Editor of the Western Historical Quarterly at the University of Oklahoma. This interview is based on her new book, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American […]

The Author’s Corner with Samantha Seeley

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 21, 2022

Samantha Seeley is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond. This interview is based on her new book, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States (Omohundro Institute and University of […]

The Author’s Corner with Mark Chambers

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 11, 2022

Mark Chambers is Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University. This interview is based on his new book, Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840  (University of Tennessee Press, 2021). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with Fay Yarbrough

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 4, 2021

Fay Yarbrough is Professor of American History at Rice University. This interview is based on her new book, Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Choctaw Confederates? […]

What the heck is Rick Santorum talking about?

John Fea   |  April 26, 2021

Please do not get your American history from my former U.S. Senator. Here is part of a recent lecture to the Young America’s Foundation: Let’s just get some facts straight: Some, but not all, Europeans came to North America to […]

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