Kevin Waite
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Waite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Waite |
| SIGNATURE | WAITE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University, Durham, England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Three-Cornered War
In July 1861 Col. John R. Baylor and his 250 rebel troops slipped across the border of west Texas into New Mexico, launching the first successful Confederate invasion of the Civil War. War in the far Southwest would rage for another half decade, as Confederates, Federals, and Native nations clashed in a series of battles that forever altered the balance of power across this vast swath of the American map. In a masterful and moving account, Megan …
The “Lost Cause” Goes West
California once housed over a dozen monuments, memorials, and place-names honoring the Confederacy, far more than any other state beyond the South. The list included schools and trees named for Robert E. Lee, mountaintops and highways for Jefferson Davis, and large memorials to Confederate soldiers in Hollywood and Orange County. Many of the monuments have been removed or renamed in the recent national reckoning with Confederate iconography. But …
The Loyal West
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America." American Nineteenth Century History, 19(1), pp. 118–119
Jefferson Davis and Proslavery Visions of Empire in the Far West
Jefferson Davis and Proslavery Visions of Empire in the Far West Kevin Waite (bio) Snatching odd moments during sentinel duty at Fort Fauntleroy in New Mexico, William Need penned an urgent message to Secretary of War Simon Cameron in September 1861. Thousands of miles from the killing fields of Manassas, Virginia, where the Union army had gone down in defeat several months earlier, an equally ominous development was unfolding along the borderlan…
Beating Napoleon at Eton
Despite the popular aphorism that ‘the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton’, historians have been slow to appreciate the value Georgian elites vested in their public schools and public school sport. In fact, the stereotype of these schools as anarchic and pedagogically insignificant still endures. I argue that the schools of this period came to enjoy a growing popularity precisely because of their rough nature. Contemporaries…
The Three-Cornered War
In July 1861 Col. John R. Baylor and his 250 rebel troops slipped across the border of west Texas into New Mexico, launching the first successful Confederate invasion of the Civil War. War in the far Southwest would rage for another half decade, as Confederates, Federals, and Native nations clashed in a series of battles that forever altered the balance of power across this vast swath of the American map. In a masterful and moving account, Megan …
Beating Napoleon at Eton
Despite the popular aphorism that ‘the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton’, historians have been slow to appreciate the value Georgian elites vested in their public schools and public school sport. In fact, the stereotype of these schools as anarchic and pedagogically insignificant still endures. I argue that the schools of this period came to enjoy a growing popularity precisely because of their rough nature. Contemporaries…
Beating Napoleon at Eton
Despite the popular aphorism that ‘the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton’, historians have been slow to appreciate the value Georgian elites vested in their public schools and public school sport. In fact, the stereotype of these schools as anarchic and pedagogically insignificant still endures. I argue that the schools of this period came to enjoy a growing popularity precisely because of their rough nature. Contemporaries…
Jefferson Davis and Proslavery Visions of Empire in the Far West
Jefferson Davis and Proslavery Visions of Empire in the Far West Kevin Waite (bio) Snatching odd moments during sentinel duty at Fort Fauntleroy in New Mexico, William Need penned an urgent message to Secretary of War Simon Cameron in September 1861. Thousands of miles from the killing fields of Manassas, Virginia, where the Union army had gone down in defeat several months earlier, an equally ominous development was unfolding along the borderlan…
The Loyal West
The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America." American Nineteenth Century History, 19(1), pp. 118–119
The “Lost Cause” Goes West
California once housed over a dozen monuments, memorials, and place-names honoring the Confederacy, far more than any other state beyond the South. The list included schools and trees named for Robert E. Lee, mountaintops and highways for Jefferson Davis, and large memorials to Confederate soldiers in Hollywood and Orange County. Many of the monuments have been removed or renamed in the recent national reckoning with Confederate iconography. But …
The Three-Cornered War
In July 1861 Col. John R. Baylor and his 250 rebel troops slipped across the border of west Texas into New Mexico, launching the first successful Confederate invasion of the Civil War. War in the far Southwest would rage for another half decade, as Confederates, Federals, and Native nations clashed in a series of battles that forever altered the balance of power across this vast swath of the American map. In a masterful and moving account, Megan …
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