I remain interested in the long history of white supremacist ideology and politics, and I was a lead co-author of a 2018 report on the history of the Ku Klux Klan at UW-Madison (pdf). Ben Tillman won the Ellis Hawley prize from the Organization of American Historians and was a New York Times Notable Book. My first book, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (Chapel Hill, 2000), explored the evolving politics of white supremacy in the post-Civil War South through the career of “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman, a slaveholder’s son who devoted himself to restoring his class’s social, political, and economic dominance. My work in Native American history builds on the questions of nineteenth-century politics and citizenship that I explored in my earlier scholarship on the South and New England.
Winther Award for the year’s best article in the Western Historical Quarterly. My recent work explores the transformations of American citizenship in the Civil War era through the experiences of the Ho-Chunk people. This work includes a book, Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the 19 th-Century United States (UNC Press, 2023), and several recent articles: “ White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and the Two Citizenships of the Fourteenth Amendment” in The Journal of the Civil War Era and “ Jurisdiction, Civilization, and the Ends of Native American Citizenship: The View from 1866,” which won the Oscar A. I am particularly interested in work that spans the antebellum, Civil War, and postbellum eras, and in the connections between the histories of slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction and the dynamics of Native American life and U.S. I am a historian of race, indigeneity, politics, and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States.
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