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Dr Kevin Waite's Outputs (4)

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.

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.