Author: Joseph Kitchens
Southern writer/historian focuses on Deep South and Georgia topics, especially of Native American Cherokees and Creeks, plantation life and cotton. Academically trained with a sense of humor and curiosity about how history impacts families and their everyday lives, even in the smallest places.30.07.2021
“Indian Territory”: A Few Common Misconceptions About the Southeastern Native Americans
Most of us have a tendency to “conflate” what we learn about specific periods of history so that…
24.07.2021
Georgia Road Trip: From Talking Rock and Tate to Thomasville and Cordele, Georgia
Entertaining my son, daughter and granddaughter during their summer visit from Thomasville, we found much to see at…
19.06.2021
Review: Robert Klara, FDR’s Funeral Train; A Betrayed Widow, A Soviet Spy, and A Presidency in the Balance. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
Historians are not the best at writing history as a rule and even the best writers often cannot…
04.06.2021
I Have Been Away and In Trouble
…not literally, but figuratively. My backyard has become my obsession and the scene of struggles I could not…
04.06.2021
REVIEW: William Hogeland, Autumn of the Black Snake; George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne and the Invasion That Opened the West. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Make no mistake, I choose not to review books unless I feel they are credible and well done,…
20.04.2021
Emily Discovers the Foxes
Dogs are my friends as a rule. Emily, our labrador youngster, is becoming a great one and has…
19.03.2021
Spring Comes To “Rocky Comfort,” Where the Mighty Have Fallen and Emily Terrifies the Squirrels
Spring is finally making a halting appearance in the north Georgia foothills and Covid may soon be winding…