Department of History

Kathryn H. Braund (Professor) was educated at Auburn University (MA, 1980) and the Florida State University (PhD, 1986). Her research focuses on the ethnohistory of the Creek and Seminole Indians in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Her first book was Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815 (1993). The second edition of Deerskins and Duffels was released in 2008. She is the co-author, with Gregory A. Waselkov, of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (1995). She is editor of an annotated version of Bernard Romans's A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (1999) and an annotated edition of James Adair's 1775 classic History of the American Indians (2005).

Published articles include: "The De Soto Map and the Luna Narratives: An Overview of Other Sixteenth-Century Sources," and "The Battle of Mabila: Competing Narratives," in The Search for Mabila (Alabama, 2009); "'Like to Have Made A War Among Ourselves'": The Creek Indians and the Coming of the War of the Revolution" in Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s (2009); "'Like a Stone Wall Never to be Broke'": the British Indian Boundary Line with the Creek Indians, 1763-1773," in Britain and the American South: Encounters and Exchanges from Colonial Times to Rock 'N Roll, Proceedings of the 26th Porter L. Fortune Jr. History Symposium (2003); "The Creek Indians, Blacks, and Slavery," Journal of Southern History 57 (1991): 601-636; "Guardians of Tradition and Handmaidens to Change: Women's Roles in Creek Economic and Social Life During the Eighteenth Century," American Indian Quarterly, 14 (1990): 239-258; and "The Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Gulf Coast as Viewed from the Townsquare," in Anglo-Spanish Confrontation on the Gulf Coast During the American Revolution (1982).

Fields of Vision: Essays on the Travels of William Bartram, 1739-1823, co-edited with Charlotte M. Porter is being published by the University of Alabama Press and is scheduled for release in the fall of 2009. Dr. Braund is currently working on a book on the Creek War of 1813-1814 and is the president of the Bartram Trail Conference.

• 1986 PhD, Florida State University
• 1980 MA, Auburn University

Books

• Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indians, Anglo-Americans and the Deerskin Trade, 1685-1815, revised edition with a new introduction (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
• James Adair's History of the American Indians, edited for reprint edition with introductory essays and annotations (University of Alabama Press, 2005)
• A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, by Bernard Romans, Edited by Kathryn E. Braund (University of Alabama Press, 1999)
• William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, by Kathryn Braund and Gregory A. Waselkov, Indians of the Southeast series (University of Nebraska Press, 1995)
• Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Indians of the Southeast series (University of Nebraska Press, 1993 [hard cover] and 1996 [paper edition])

Articles

• "The Congress Held in a Pavilion: John Bartram and the Creek Indian Congress at Picolata, East Florida," in Nancy Hoffmann and John C. Van Horne, eds., America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram, 1699-1777. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 243 (APS, 2004)
• "'Like a Stone Wall Never to be Broke': the British-Indian Boundary Line with the Creek Indians, 1763-1773," in Joseph Ward, ed., Britain and the American South: Encounters and Exchanges from Colonial Times to Rock 'N' Roll (University of Mississippi Press, 2003)
• "William Bartram and the Creek Indians," in Elliott O. Edwards, ed., Celebration of Travels 1791: Proceedings of the Bartram Trail Conference and Symposium, (Savannah, 1993), 45-58
• "The Creek Indians, Blacks, and Slavery," Journal of Southern History 57 (November 1991):601-636. Article reprinted in German journal Frontier History
• "Guardians of Tradition and Handmaidens to Change: Women's Roles in Creek Economic and Social Life During the Eighteenth Century," American Indian Quarterly 14 (Summer 1990):239-258
• "'Hog Wild and 'Nuts': Billy Boll Weevil Comes to the Alabama Wiregrass," Agricultural History 63 (Summer 1989):15-39
• "The Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Gulf Coast as Viewed from the Townsquare," in William S. Coker and Robert R. Rea, eds., Anglo-Spanish Confrontation on the Gulf Coast During the American Revolution (Pensacola, 1982) 90-105

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