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    Alaina E. Roberts, Ph.D.

    historian, California girl, gym rat

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    Academic Publications

    Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 16, No. 1 /

    In 2025, an Echo of the 1800s: The Fight for Black Citizenship in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations

    Journal of Southern History vol. 91, no. 4 /

    A Pedagogy of Empathy and Self-Interest in Teaching Multiracial History

    Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 15, No. 2 /

    'We Are Cherokee': Exhibiting Material Culture as an Act of Reconciliation

    Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 13, No. 1 /

    Black Slaves and Indian Owners: The Continuous Rediscovery of Indian Territory

    Southern Cultures Vol. 28, No. 3 /

    At the Intersection of Chickasaw Identity and Black Enslavement 

    Democracies in America: Keywords for the 19th Century and Today /

    Settlement

    American Indian Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 3 /

    When Black Lives Matter Meets Indian Country: Using the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations as Case Studies for Understanding the Evolution of Public History and Interracial Coalition

     Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era vol. 20, no. 2 /

    No More Nations within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty-Making in 1871

    Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 10, No. 2 /

    A Different Forty Acres: Land, Kin, and Migration in the Late Nineteenth Century West

    Western Historical Quarterly vol. 49, no. 1 /

    Field Notes: A Hammer and a Mirror: Tribal Disenrollment and Scholarly Responsibility

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