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I had the opportunity to share portions of the dissertation project this April at the Tenth Annual Rice-Unicamp-Mora Seminar, hosted by Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicampi), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Sharing this story in this setting, in an audience of … Continue reading →

The Yowani Choctaw had emigrated into Texas in the mid-eighteenth century, assimilating into the larger Caddo cultural and political body. Lino Sánchez y Tapía created this illustration to accompany naturalist Jean Luis Berlandier’s, and army officers’ Manuel de Pier y … Continue reading →

Hello, and welcome! I’m Bryson Kisner, a Ph.D. candidate in rice University’s History Department. I primarily study the nineteenth-century U.S. and the U.S. South through the lenses of environmental and borderlands history. I also dabble in longer periodizations and broader … Continue reading →