Andrew Denson
Biographic Data
| ID | 682723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Denson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Denson |
| SIGNATURE | DENSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Carolina University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aggression and Sufferings
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Reviewed by: Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley Andrew Denson (bio) Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley University of North Carolina Press, 2021 in race, removal, and the right to remain, historian Samantha Seeley explores the politics of migration and exclusion in the United States during the early national p…
Modernity through Letter Writing
In her new book, historian Claudia B. Haake examines a large body of English-language letters and petitions written by Cherokees and Senecas to U.S. officials during the struggle over the Indian removal policy. Written communication, Haake observes, became a crucial form of diplomacy during the removal era, as English literacy expanded among Cherokees and Senecas and as federal officials grew increasingly reluctant to authorize expensive delegati…
Indians on the Move
The Cherokee Diaspora
Journal Article The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Settlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers Get access The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Settlement, and Identity. The Lamar Series in Western History. By Gregory D. Smithers. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. vii + 358 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Western Ca…
Christopher D. Haveman. Rivers of Sand
In Rivers of Sand, Christopher D. Haveman offers a methodically detailed history of Creek Indian removal from the U.S. Southeast during the 1820s and 1830s. Describing Creek removal as an example of American ethnic cleansing, Haveman examines the complicated mixture of coercion, fraud, and political negotiation that led to the relocation of more than twenty thousand Creek (Muscogee Nation) people to new lands west of the Mississippi River. He als…
Monuments to Absence
The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. White…
Serving the Nation
In Serving the Nation, Julie L. Reed examines the development of the Cherokee Nation’s social welfare system from the removal era through allotment and Oklahoma statehood. She describes institutions like the Cherokee Orphan Asylum and the Cherokee National Prison, while tracing the evolution of Cherokee government policies regarding mental illness, disability, and public health. This system, she argues, demonstrated the persistence of Cherokee co…
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906
Book Review| January 01 2015 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906. By Parins, James W.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. $34.95 cloth.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 179–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2821774 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Reframing the Indian Dead
Yellow fever was a regular visitor to the Old South, and Charleston had the displeasure of bearing the brunt of yellow fever mortalities, rivaled only by New Orleans and Savannah in death rates. European immigrants who settled in Charleston died at higher rates than native white Southerners for a variety of reasons, mostly related to lack of resistance to the disease but also indicative of social class and gender. Yellow fever also threatened peo…
Sustaining the Cherokee Family
Book Review| January 01 2013 Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation. By Stremlau, Rose. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. $24.95 paper.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 163–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642842 V…
Native Americans in Cold War Public Diplomacy
This essay examines the depiction of Native Americans by the US Information Agency (USIA), the bureau charged with explaining American politics to the international public during the Cold War. In the 1950s and 1960s, the USIA broadcast the message that Americans had begun to acknowledge their nation's history of conquest and were working to redress old wrongs through an activist government. That message echoed the agency's depiction of the Africa…
The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees
Book Review| April 01 2010 The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees . Edited by Rowena McClinton. (2 vols., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Vol. Vol. 2, vi + 640 pp., appendixes, glossary, bibliographical essay, indexes. $99.95 cloth.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 336–337. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-071 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Exiles and Pioneers
Book Review| July 01 2009 Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West, John P. Bowes. Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (4): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543480 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree
Book Review| April 01 2009 Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation . By Izumi Ishii. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. $45.00 cloth.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 333–335. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-075 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Denson; Bad F…
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855
The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855 Get access The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855. By Unrau William E.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv + 201 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Western Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Page 213, https://doi.org/10.…
Demanding the Cherokee Nation
Journal Article Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900 Get access Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900. By Denson Andrew. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. x + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, £41.95.) Rennard Strickland Rennard Strickland University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western His…
Muskogee's Indian International Fairs
Although most of its organizers were white businessmen, the Indian International Fair provided some Native American leaders with opportunities to broadcast their own political positions regarding Indian Territory and tribal autonomy. This essay describes and explains the fair, while drawing connections with the literature on Indian exhibits in American expositions
Monuments to Absence
The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. White…
Muskogee's Indian International Fairs
Although most of its organizers were white businessmen, the Indian International Fair provided some Native American leaders with opportunities to broadcast their own political positions regarding Indian Territory and tribal autonomy. This essay describes and explains the fair, while drawing connections with the literature on Indian exhibits in American expositions
Muskogee's Indian International Fairs
Although most of its organizers were white businessmen, the Indian International Fair provided some Native American leaders with opportunities to broadcast their own political positions regarding Indian Territory and tribal autonomy. This essay describes and explains the fair, while drawing connections with the literature on Indian exhibits in American expositions
Demanding the Cherokee Nation
Journal Article Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900 Get access Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900. By Denson Andrew. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. x + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, £41.95.) Rennard Strickland Rennard Strickland University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western His…
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855
The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855 Get access The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855. By Unrau William E.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv + 201 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Western Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 2008, Page 213, https://doi.org/10.…
Exiles and Pioneers
Book Review| July 01 2009 Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West, John P. Bowes. Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2009) 28 (4): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543480 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree
Book Review| April 01 2009 Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation . By Izumi Ishii. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. $45.00 cloth.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 333–335. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-075 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Denson; Bad F…
The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees
Book Review| April 01 2010 The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees . Edited by Rowena McClinton. (2 vols., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Vol. Vol. 2, vi + 640 pp., appendixes, glossary, bibliographical essay, indexes. $99.95 cloth.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (2): 336–337. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-071 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Native Americans in Cold War Public Diplomacy
This essay examines the depiction of Native Americans by the US Information Agency (USIA), the bureau charged with explaining American politics to the international public during the Cold War. In the 1950s and 1960s, the USIA broadcast the message that Americans had begun to acknowledge their nation's history of conquest and were working to redress old wrongs through an activist government. That message echoed the agency's depiction of the Africa…
Sustaining the Cherokee Family
Book Review| January 01 2013 Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation. By Stremlau, Rose. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. $24.95 paper.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 163–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642842 V…
Reframing the Indian Dead
Yellow fever was a regular visitor to the Old South, and Charleston had the displeasure of bearing the brunt of yellow fever mortalities, rivaled only by New Orleans and Savannah in death rates. European immigrants who settled in Charleston died at higher rates than native white Southerners for a variety of reasons, mostly related to lack of resistance to the disease but also indicative of social class and gender. Yellow fever also threatened peo…
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906
Book Review| January 01 2015 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906. By Parins, James W.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. $34.95 cloth.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (1): 179–180. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2821774 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
The Cherokee Diaspora
Journal Article The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Settlement, and Identity. By Gregory D. Smithers Get access The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Settlement, and Identity. The Lamar Series in Western History. By Gregory D. Smithers. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. vii + 358 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.) Andrew Denson Andrew Denson Western Ca…
Christopher D. Haveman. Rivers of Sand
In Rivers of Sand, Christopher D. Haveman offers a methodically detailed history of Creek Indian removal from the U.S. Southeast during the 1820s and 1830s. Describing Creek removal as an example of American ethnic cleansing, Haveman examines the complicated mixture of coercion, fraud, and political negotiation that led to the relocation of more than twenty thousand Creek (Muscogee Nation) people to new lands west of the Mississippi River. He als…
Monuments to Absence
The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. White…
Serving the Nation
In Serving the Nation, Julie L. Reed examines the development of the Cherokee Nation’s social welfare system from the removal era through allotment and Oklahoma statehood. She describes institutions like the Cherokee Orphan Asylum and the Cherokee National Prison, while tracing the evolution of Cherokee government policies regarding mental illness, disability, and public health. This system, she argues, demonstrated the persistence of Cherokee co…
Indians on the Move
Modernity through Letter Writing
In her new book, historian Claudia B. Haake examines a large body of English-language letters and petitions written by Cherokees and Senecas to U.S. officials during the struggle over the Indian removal policy. Written communication, Haake observes, became a crucial form of diplomacy during the removal era, as English literacy expanded among Cherokees and Senecas and as federal officials grew increasingly reluctant to authorize expensive delegati…
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain
Reviewed by: Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley Andrew Denson (bio) Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States by Samantha Seeley University of North Carolina Press, 2021 in race, removal, and the right to remain, historian Samantha Seeley explores the politics of migration and exclusion in the United States during the early national p…
Aggression and Sufferings
History (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Cherokee (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Ethnology (6 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (6 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works)