Dr Kevin Waite's 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