Articles and Book Chapters

“A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change,” The Atlantic, April 2, 2024

“How Native Nations Survived the Imperial Republic,” in The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the U.S.-Mexican War, ed. Noelani Arista, Michael A. Blaakman, and Emily Conroy-Krutz (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

“The International War on the Gulf Coast,” in The American Revolution: A World War, ed. David K. Allison and Larrie D. Ferreiro (Smithsonian Press, 2018).

Afterword, European Empires in the American South, ed. Joseph Ward (University Press of Mississippi, 2018). Link.

“Writing Translations, Writing History: Colonial American Voices and the Problem of Verticality,” co-authored with John DuVal, Provocations section, Early American Literature 53 (February 2018).

“Living in a Reordered World, 1680-1763,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History, ed. Frederick Hoxie (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 58-76.

“Independence for Whom?: Expansion and Conflict in the South and Southwest,”in The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent, ed. Andrew Shankman (Routledge, 2014), pp. 97-115.

“The Mississippian Peoples’ Worldview,” in Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies, ed. Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard Talbert (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010), pp. 89-107.

“Are Sauvages Savages, Wild People, or Indians in a Colonial American Reader?,” co-authored with John DuVal, Translation Review 79 (Winter 2010), pp. 1-16. Link.

“Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisiana,” William and Mary Quarterly 65 (April 2008), pp. 267-304. Link.

“Cross-Cultural Crime and Osage Justice in the Western Mississippi Valley,” Ethnohistory (Fall 2007), pp. 697-722. Link.

“Interconnectedness and Diversity in ‘French Louisiana,'” in Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, ed. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley, 2nd ed. (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), pp. 133-162. Republished as “French Louisiana in the Native Ground,” in Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands, ed. Pekka Hämäläinen and Benjamin H. Johnson (Wadsworth, 2012).

“Debating Identity, Sovereignty, and Civilization: The Arkansas Valley after the Louisiana Purchase,” Journal of the Early Republic (Spring 2006), pp. 25-59. Link.

“Choosing Enemies: The Prospects for an Anti-American Alliance in the Louisiana Territory,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2003), pp. 233-252. Link.

“’A Good Relationship, & Commerce’: The Native Political Economy of the Arkansas River Valley,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Spring 2003), pp. 61-89. Link.

“The Education of Fernando de Leyba: Quapaws and Spaniards on the Border of Empires,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Spring 2001), pp. 1-29. Link.