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.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….
05.06.2019
William Rawlings, A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff ; The Great Recession and the Death of Small-Town Georgia. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2013.
Occasionally, we unsuspectingly begin a book and discover that it opens a door onto our own family’s story…
12.05.2019
Where to Begin…Cherokee Removal?
Yesterday was stormy as I drove to Cartersville, Georgia to present a program entitled “The Native Peoples of…
10.05.2019
Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles; American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Professor Jasanoff has condensed the myriad monographs on what happened to the loyalist refugees after the American Revolution…