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.20.07.2019
Jack Weatheford, Indian Givers; How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988. (Paperback edition from Crown Publishers, Ballantine Books Edition 1990.)
Brilliant. When I became the director of the Native American-focused Funk Heritage Center at Reinhardt University, I knew…
17.07.2019
Dog Deprivation Trauma (DDT)
Doc, I Need a Dog My second post-birthday visit to the shrink was last Monday. Naturally, I…
17.07.2019
Fire in the Woods
Historian in a Room Full of Forest Rangers In another life I was the founding executive director…
10.07.2019
Peachie the Labrador: Our Youngest Daughter is a Dog
The human kids are grown and only our yellow labrador, Peachie, remains at home. We brought Peachie to…
05.07.2019
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: Harper Press, 2016.
The Melting Pot of Grievances; Finding Context for Hillbilly Elegy We are drawn to conflict. In our literature,…
04.07.2019
Impressions of the Great War by a Young Georgia Poet Part I
“…like a sauropod in a tarpit…”
01.07.2019
White Tail Empire: The Deerskin Trade in the Southern Colonies (Part One: How the Trade Worked)
Trade in the southern backcountry was largely based on Britain’s need for hides-deerskins to be specific. That trade…
17.06.2019
Heart of A Longleaf
by Joseph Kitchens Old friend, show me the old pictures. Tell me the old stories. Talk to…
13.06.2019
A Real, Inspiring and Imperfect Father
09.06.2019
Lexington Cemetery; General Morgan’s Statue Rededicated
It is early June. Like many grandparents, we are on the road for our granddaughter’s high school graduation….