Outputs (31)

The Brittle West: Secession and Separatism in the Southwest Borderlands during the Civil War Era (2023)
Journal Article
Waite, K. (2023). The Brittle West: Secession and Separatism in the Southwest Borderlands during the Civil War Era. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 127(1), 8-28. https://doi.org/10.1353/swh.2023.a900767

What Slavery Looked Like in the West (The Atlantic) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). What Slavery Looked Like in the West (The Atlantic)

The sinister reason why camels were brought to the American West (National Geographic) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). The sinister reason why camels were brought to the American West (National Geographic)

The Southerners Who Dreamed of a Slaveholding Empire (Jacobin) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K., & Dilawar, A. (2021). The Southerners Who Dreamed of a Slaveholding Empire (Jacobin)

Why California’s slavery reparations task force has the power to transform us all (The Los Angeles Times) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). Why California’s slavery reparations task force has the power to transform us all (The Los Angeles Times)

The little-known story of how slavery infiltrated California and the American West (The Conversation) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). The little-known story of how slavery infiltrated California and the American West (The Conversation)

California's Vigilante Tradition (Los Angeles Review of Books) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). California's Vigilante Tradition (Los Angeles Review of Books)

The bloody history of anti-Asian violence in the West (National Geographic) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). The bloody history of anti-Asian violence in the West (National Geographic)

America's Western Problem (History Today) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). America's Western Problem (History Today)

West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (2021)
Book
Waite, K. (2021). West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire. The University of North Carolina Press

The Forgotten History of the Western Klan (The Atlantic) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). The Forgotten History of the Western Klan (The Atlantic)

Build a memorial to the victims of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinese Massacre (The Los Angeles Times) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). Build a memorial to the victims of the 1871 Los Angeles Chinese Massacre (The Los Angeles Times)

Congress is still littered with insurrectionists (Slate) (2021)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2021). Congress is still littered with insurrectionists (Slate)

UCSF should save this California monument to Black history (San Francisco Examiner) (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (in press). UCSF should save this California monument to Black history (San Francisco Examiner)

California finally sweeps away most of its tributes to the Confederacy. What took so long? (The Los Angeles Times) (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2020). California finally sweeps away most of its tributes to the Confederacy. What took so long? (The Los Angeles Times)

Why is UC San Francisco threatening to destroy a monument to California's Black history? (The Los Angeles Times) (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K., & Broxton, J. (in press). Why is UC San Francisco threatening to destroy a monument to California's Black history? (The Los Angeles Times)

The other slavery part of Utah's history (Salt Lake Tribune) (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K., & Gordon, S. B. (2020). The other slavery part of Utah's history (Salt Lake Tribune)

The Lost Cause Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California (2020)
Journal Article
Waite, K. (2020). The Lost Cause Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California. California History, 97(1), 33-49. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.1.33

California once housed over a dozen monuments, memorials, and place-names honoring the Confederacy, far more than any other state beyond the South. The list included schools and trees named for Robert E. Lee, mountaintops and highways for Jefferson D... Read More about The Lost Cause Goes West: Confederate Culture and Civil War Memory in California.

California's forgotten slave history (The Los Angeles Times) (2020)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K., & Gordon, S. B. (2020). California's forgotten slave history (The Los Angeles Times)

Custer's Last Stands: Remaking an American Frontier Legend in Hollywood Film (2019)
Book Chapter
Waite, K. (2019). Custer's Last Stands: Remaking an American Frontier Legend in Hollywood Film. In J. H. Inscoe, & E. M. (Eds.), Writing History with Lightning: Representations of Nineteenth Century America on Film. Louisiana State University Press. https://doi.org/10.31390/cwbr.21.2.13

War in Indian Country (2019)
Book Chapter
Waite, K. (2019). War in Indian Country. In A. Sheehan-Dean (Ed.), The Cambridge History of the American Civil War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316563168

Why it's always Infrastructure Week (Washington Post) (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2019). Why it's always Infrastructure Week (Washington Post)

California's Forgotten Confederate History (The New Republic) (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2019). California's Forgotten Confederate History (The New Republic)

The missing statues that expose the truth about Confederate monuments (Washington Post) (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2018). The missing statues that expose the truth about Confederate monuments (Washington Post)

Early California lawmakers also preached #resistance -- against immigration (The Los Angeles Times) (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2018). Early California lawmakers also preached #resistance -- against immigration (The Los Angeles Times)

Kanye West's rants on slavery align alarmingly well with popular views of American history (The Los Angeles Times) (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2018). Kanye West's rants on slavery align alarmingly well with popular views of American history (The Los Angeles Times)

The largest Confederate monument in American can't be taken down (Washington Post) (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2017). The largest Confederate monument in American can't be taken down (Washington Post)

Robert E. Lee WAS a man of honor. That's the problem (Washington Post) (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2017). Robert E. Lee WAS a man of honor. That's the problem (Washington Post)

The struggle over slavery was not confined to the South, L.A. has a Confederate memorial problem too (The Los Angeles Times) (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Waite, K. (2017). The struggle over slavery was not confined to the South, L.A. has a Confederate memorial problem too (The Los Angeles Times)

Jefferson Davis and Proslavery Visions of Empire in the Far West (2016)
Journal Article
Waite, K. (2016). Jefferson Davis and Proslavery Visions of Empire in the Far West. The journal of the Civil War era, 6(4), 536-565. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2016.0072

Beating Napoleon at Eton: Violence, Sport and Manliness in England's Public Schools, 1783-1815 (2014)
Journal Article
Waite, K. (2014). Beating Napoleon at Eton: Violence, Sport and Manliness in England's Public Schools, 1783-1815. Cultural and Social History, 11(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800414x13983595303390

Despite the popular aphorism that ‘the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton’, historians have been slow to appreciate the value Georgian elites vested in their public schools and public school sport. In fact, the stereotype of the... Read More about Beating Napoleon at Eton: Violence, Sport and Manliness in England's Public Schools, 1783-1815.