74 - Dr. Kevin Waite, Author of West of Slavery

December 08, 2022 00:36:04
74 - Dr. Kevin Waite, Author of West of Slavery
History of California Podcast
74 - Dr. Kevin Waite, Author of West of Slavery

Dec 08 2022 | 00:36:04

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Show Notes

Today we have Kevin Waite on the show. Kevin Waite is an associate professor at Durham Universisty and a political historian of the 19th-century United States with a focus on slavery, imperialism, and the American West. His first book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (UNC Press, 2021), is a study of slaveholding expansion in California and the Far Southwest. It explores how American Southerners extended their labour order and political vision across the continent, and in the process, triggered a series of conflicts that culminated in the Civil War. West of Slavery won the 2022 Wiley-Silver Prize from the Center for Civil War Research and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize as well as the SHEAR Manuscript Prize. It was named one of the "11 books that shaped how we think about California" by Boom: A Journal of California and one of the "Five Best Books" ever written on the Civil War in the American Far West by the Civil War Monitor. Please enjoy our conversation.

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