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.05.08.2021
New Echota and the Cherokee Removal Story
The old capital of the Cherokee Nation is part restoration, part reconstruction. It includes a small and beautifully…
31.07.2021
Appalachian Hiker and Autism
It took him more than six months to hike the long trail from Amicalola Falls in Georgia to…
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,…