Tennessee WordSmith: List of Previous Historical Essays

I first started blogging almost a decade ago, first on my author's homepage and then, beginning in 2011, here. It was something I did to promote my writing, and most of the posts reflect that: announcing award nominations and new releases, interviews, promoting other writers in my genre(s), and a lot of blogs about the western genre, including book and film reviews.

But every once in awhile I also would write, sometimes at length, about history, culture, and world events, bringing to bear my perspective as a historian of race and a labor activist. Such essays were rare, but in the last couple of years have largely replaced self-promotion in this space.

For those who may have read some of these and found them interesting, I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of such essays in case you want to read further. And here they are, in reverse chronological order.

A Brief History of Voting in America -from 1776 to January 6

Southern Culture, Southern Honor, Southern Fatalism
Confederate Monuments and History
U.S. Marshals and 19th Century Violence
A Question about Race and Politics

East Meets Western: Cowboys, Samurai, and Shaolin Monks

No, There Were No "White Slaves" in America (July 17, 2016)

England, Japan, and Race (July 17, 2016)

Black Lives Matter: Historical Perspective (July 14, 2016)
On Independence Day (July 11, 2016)

White Servants, Black and Indian Slaves: The Turning Pointof American History (June 5, 2016)