Outputs (21)

Understanding and teaching Native American history: Methods and resources (2022)
Book
Ray, K., & DeSanti, B. (Eds.). (2022). Understanding and teaching Native American history: Methods and resources. University of Wisconsin Press

'Our Concerns with Indians are now greatly extended’: Cherokees, Westward Indians, and Interpreting the Quebec Act from the Ohio Valley, 1763-1774 (2020)
Book Chapter
Ray, K. (2020). 'Our Concerns with Indians are now greatly extended’: Cherokees, Westward Indians, and Interpreting the Quebec Act from the Ohio Valley, 1763-1774. In O. Hubert, & F. Furstenberg (Eds.), The Quebec Act of 1774: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies (304-333). McGill-Queen's University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228004639

About this book:

A compelling re-examination of the Quebec Act.

Brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. It weaves together perspectives from spa... Read More about 'Our Concerns with Indians are now greatly extended’: Cherokees, Westward Indians, and Interpreting the Quebec Act from the Ohio Valley, 1763-1774.

Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016 (2018)
Book
Ray, K. (2018). Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016. Tennessee Historical Society

Volume VII of the Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly begins with the ending year of Volume VI, which covered 1971-1991. The Biographical Directory series is based on the two-year legislative session; this volume covers the 97th... Read More about Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016.

Constructing a Discourse of Indigenous Slavery, Freedom, and Sovereignty in Anglo-Virginia, 1600-1750 (2017)
Journal Article
Ray, K. (2017). Constructing a Discourse of Indigenous Slavery, Freedom, and Sovereignty in Anglo-Virginia, 1600-1750. Native South, 10, 19-39. https://doi.org/10.1353/nso.2017.0002

'The Indians of every denomination were free, and independent of us’: White Southern Explorations of Indigenous Slavery, Freedom, and Society, 1772-1830 (2016)
Journal Article
Ray, K. (2016). 'The Indians of every denomination were free, and independent of us’: White Southern Explorations of Indigenous Slavery, Freedom, and Society, 1772-1830. American Nineteenth Century History, 17(2), 139-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2016.1215019

In arguing against Indian slavery, plaintiff’s attorneys in the 1772 Virginia General Court case Robin v Hardaway faced a dilemma: how could they condemn enslavement while mollifying public conviction that Indigenous “savagery” made them dangerous to... Read More about 'The Indians of every denomination were free, and independent of us’: White Southern Explorations of Indigenous Slavery, Freedom, and Society, 1772-1830.

Leadership, Loyalty, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary American Southwest: The State of Franklin as Case Study (2015)
Journal Article
Ray, K. (2015). Leadership, Loyalty, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary American Southwest: The State of Franklin as Case Study. The North Carolina historical review, 92(2), 123-144

Cherokees, Empire, and the Tennessee Corridor in the British Imagination, 1670-1730 (2015)
Book Chapter
Ray, K. (2015). Cherokees, Empire, and the Tennessee Corridor in the British Imagination, 1670-1730. In K. Ray (Ed.), Before the Volunteer State: New Thoughts on Early Tennessee, 1540–1800 (35-64). University of Tennessee Press

Searching for John Sevier: Myth, memory, and the history of early Tennessee history (2015)
Book Chapter
Ray, K., & Barksdale, K. (2015). Searching for John Sevier: Myth, memory, and the history of early Tennessee history. In K. Ray (Ed.), Before the volunteer state: New thoughts on early Tennessee, 1540–1800 (201-216). University of Tennessee Press

Before the Volunteer State: New thoughts on early Tennessee history, 1540-1800 (2015)
Book
Ray, K. (2015). K. Ray (Ed.). Before the Volunteer State: New thoughts on early Tennessee history, 1540-1800. University of Tennessee Press

Most general studies of Tennessee history begin with the arrival of Anglo-American settlers in the 1760s, with only a brief overview of the state’s “prehistory.” This welcome volume rethinks this narrative by placing Tennessee’s origins firmly in the... Read More about Before the Volunteer State: New thoughts on early Tennessee history, 1540-1800.

Cherokees and Franco-British Confrontation in the Tennessee Corridor, 1730-1760 (2014)
Journal Article
Ray, K. (2014). Cherokees and Franco-British Confrontation in the Tennessee Corridor, 1730-1760. Native South, 7, 33-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/nso.2014.0004