Kevin Waite is an assistant professor of history at Durham University in England and the author of West of Slavery: The Transcontinental Crisis of the Civil War Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). His scholarly articles and chapters have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era, California History, the Cambridge History of the American Civil War, and the Oxford Handbook on Reconstruction. Kevin also writes regularly for popular media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, the New Republic, TIME, and the Washington Post.
Kevin Waite
May 21, 2020
