Robert E May
Biographic Data
| ID | 825399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E May |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | May |
| SIGNATURE | MAY R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kevin Waite. West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
Journal Article Kevin Waite. West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. Get access Kevin Waite. West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. 372. Paper $29.95. Robert E. May Robert E. May Purdue University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volum…
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner
Reviewed by: South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L. Baumgartner Robert E. May (bio) South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. By Alice L. Baumgartner. (New York: Basic Books, 2020. Pp. 384. Cloth, $32.00.) Alice L. Baumgartner's remarkable book provides new perspectives on African American agency in Civil War causation. It also underscores Mexico's antislavery record in…
The Cowboy Capitalist: John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa
Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858 - by Fowler, Will
Todd W. Wahlstrom. The Southern Exodus to Mexico: Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
Positing that prior historians have miscast the post–Civil War southern migration to Mexico, Todd W. Wahlstrom argues in this revisionist work for an entrepreneurial take on southern colonists in Mexico and for positioning them within borderlands and transnational contexts. Rather than serving up die-hard rebels escaping Yankee rule and possible punishment for disloyalty who fantasize about recreating a labor system approximating slavery in a sub…
The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim
Considers why the Confederacy never received foreign aid and traces the Civil War's impact on European and Latin nations and dependencies.
A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
A Wicked War provides an unusual synthesis of the U.S. -Mexican War by interweaving five biographies, with some "six degrees of separation" interconnections among them, through a narrative, beginning with the U.S. annexation of Texas and ending with the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Presumably, the book's title omits two of these key protagonists-John J. Hardin, the former U.S
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly from evidence that slaveholders, with Douglas's assistance, planned to follow up successes in Kansas by bringing Cuba, Mexico, and Central America int…
Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Journal Article Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States Get access Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. By Lazo Rodrigo. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 252 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn0-8078-2930-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn0-80785594-4.) Robert E. May Robert E. May Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Reconsidering Antebellum U.S. Women's History: Gender, Filibustering, and America's Quest for Empire
Around midnight on an early October evening in 1858, Congressman John H. Reagan of Texas battled off his fatigue and penned an antifilibustering letter to James W. Latimer, a copublisher of the Dallas Herald. A day earlier, the Herald had printed Latimer's column supporting the pretensions of the American filibuster William Walker to the presidency of Nicaragua. Walker, who had conquered much of the Central American state in 1855–56 before being …
Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
William C. Davis's biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett provides a definitive picture of South Carolina's most prominent secessionist and arguably the best known in the nation during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Dubbed the Father of Secession, Rhett attached himself to South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun, but grew more zealous than his mentor on the secession issue. Rhett first raised the possibility of secession in 1826, well …
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
Long Gray Lines: The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915
Long Gray Lines: Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915. By Rod Andrew Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 169. Illustrations, appendix. $29.95.) Long Gray Lines makes significant contribution to the ongoing historical debate over the existence of unique southern tradition by examining the development, support, and longevity of schools and programs in the American South from 1839 to 1915. Supported by exte…
Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861
Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism
Six scholars consider important aspects of American antebellum expansion in this collection of studies newly available in paperback.Robert W. Johannsen of the University of Illinois at Urbana offers fresh insight into the meaning of the term manifest destiny, arguing for a broader definition.John M. Belohlavek of the University of South Florida takes a close look at the expansionist attitudes of Caleb Cushing, a Massachusetts politician, diplomat…
The Time O' All Times? Masters, Slaves, and Christmas in the Old South
Building the Continental Empire: American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War
In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers began to perceive the advantages of colonial union and the possibility of creating an empire within the British Empire that would provide security an…
The Limitations of Classroom Media: Ken Burns' Civil War Series as a Test Case
The Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim
When Two Worlds Collide: Progressive Spirits in the Nineteenth-Century South
US Expansionism and Cuban Annexationism in the 1850s
The Fire-Eaters
Young American Males and Filibustering in the Age of Manifest Destiny: The United States Army as a Cultural Mirror
Journal Article Young American Males and Filibustering in the Age of Manifest Destiny: The United States Army as a Cultural Mirror Get access Robert E. May Robert E. May professor of history Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 857–886, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078794 Published: 01 December 1991
Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848
The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore. American Presidency Series
Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Journal Article Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States Get access Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. By Lazo Rodrigo. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 252 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn0-8078-2930-7. Paper, $19.95, isbn0-80785594-4.) Robert E. May Robert E. May Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism
Six scholars consider important aspects of American antebellum expansion in this collection of studies newly available in paperback.Robert W. Johannsen of the University of Illinois at Urbana offers fresh insight into the meaning of the term manifest destiny, arguing for a broader definition.John M. Belohlavek of the University of South Florida takes a close look at the expansionist attitudes of Caleb Cushing, a Massachusetts politician, diplomat…
Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Journal Article The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1834–1861. By Robert E. May. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Robert E. Shalhope Robert E. Shalhope University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 781–782, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899959 …
Reconsidering Antebellum U.S. Women's History: Gender, Filibustering, and America's Quest for Empire
Around midnight on an early October evening in 1858, Congressman John H. Reagan of Texas battled off his fatigue and penned an antifilibustering letter to James W. Latimer, a copublisher of the Dallas Herald. A day earlier, the Herald had printed Latimer's column supporting the pretensions of the American filibuster William Walker to the presidency of Nicaragua. Walker, who had conquered much of the Central American state in 1855–56 before being …
Building the Continental Empire: American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War
In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers began to perceive the advantages of colonial union and the possibility of creating an empire within the British Empire that would provide security an…
The Presidency of James K. Polk
The southern dream of a Caribbean empire, 1854-1861
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Journal Article The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1834–1861. By Robert E. May. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1973. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Robert E. Shalhope Robert E. Shalhope University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 781–782, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899959 …
The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860
The Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Dixie's Martial Image: A Continuing Historiographical Enigma
Notes1. Official Record of the Debates and Proceedings at the Southern Commercial Convention Assembled at Knoxville, Tennessee, August 10th, 1857 (Knoxville, 1857), 14.2. C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877–1913 (Baton Rouge, 1951), 159. My focus is upon white violence and militancy because this has been the major preoccupation of scholars and because it was white Southerners who generally guided the region's approach to foreign wars…
Lobbyists for Commercial Empire: Jane Cazneau, William Cazneau, and U.S. Caribbean Policy, 1846-1878
ALTHOUGH AMERICAN TERRITORIAL expansionism from the Revolution to the Civil War is usually portrayed as westward in direction and intent, continental empire encompassed far more than territorial growth to the Pacific. When the acquisitions of the Floridas, the southern Louisiana territories, Texas, and the Gadsden region are considered in conjunction with American interest in annexing northern Mexico and Yucatan during the Mexican War plus Cuba i…
Antebellum Americans "Meet" their Southern Neighbors
United States Foreign Relations, 1820-1860
John A. Quitman and His Slaves: Reconciling Slave Resistance with the Proslavery Defense
Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865
The Great Western Land Pirate: John A. Murrell in Legend and History
The Mind of a Secessionist: Social Conservatism or Romantic Adventure
Revisiting the Old Dominion's Impending Crisis
John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader
John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader
Journal Article John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader. By Robert E. May. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. xxi + 465 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95.) Get access John McCardell John McCardell Middlebury College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Page 947, https://doi.or…
Invisible Men: Blacks and the U.S. Army in the Mexican War
(1987). Invisible Men: Blacks and the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. The Historian: Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 463-477
The Presidency of James K. Polk
John A. Quitman: Old South Crusader
Magnificent Distances: The Chase of Old Rough and Ready
Squatter Sovereignty as the Freeport Doctrine: A Note on the Territorial Controversy in the U. S. House of Representatives in the Winter of 1855-1856
Robert E. May, Squatter Sovereignty as the Freeport Doctrine: A Note on the Territorial Controversy in the U. S. House of Representatives in the Winter of 1855-1856, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 53, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 304-306
A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy
Journal Article A Long Shadow: Jefferson Davis and the Final Days of the Confederacy. By Michael B. Ballard. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986. xi + 200 pp. $22.50.) Get access Robert E. May Robert E. May Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 524–525, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900085 Published: 01 September 1987
Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848
The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore. American Presidency Series
Walker
Walker. Prod. by Angel Flores Marini. Directed by Alex Cox. 1987. 95 mins Robert E. May Robert E. May Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1105–1106, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079148 Published: 01 December 1990
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