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GENE ALLEN SMITH Department of History 1424 S GENE ALLEN SMITH Department of History http://personal.tcu.edu/gsmith/ 1424 S. Lake St. Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX 76104 TCU Box 297260 [email protected] (817) 312-7522 cell Fort Worth, TX 76129 FAX (817) 257-5650 (817) 257-6295 EDUCATION Ph.D. Auburn University 1991 Additional graduate study: University of Virginia, 1992. EXPERIENCE Teaching: Aug ’02- Present Professor Texas Christian University Aug ’19-July ’20 A.M. Pate, Jr., Professor March 2018 Visiting Professor of Debrecen University, Hungary American History Aug ’13- June ‘14 Class of 1957 Distinguished United States Naval Academy Professor in Naval Heritage Sept ’05 – Oct ‘05 Visiting Professor of Debrecen University, Hungary American History Aug ’97 – July ‘02 Associate Professor Texas Christian University Fall 1999 Faculty in Residence TCU London Center Aug ’94 – July ‘97 Assistant Professor Texas Christian University Aug ’91 – July ‘94 Assistant Professor Montana State University-Billings Jan '85 - June '91 Teaching Assistant Auburn University June '88 - June '91 Adjunct Instructor Southern Union State Junior College Sept '87 - June '88 Adjunct Instructor Central Alabama Community College Undergraduate Courses Taught: Graduate Seminars: U.S. to 1877 World History to 1400 Colonial America U.S. since 1877 World History since 1400 Revolutionary America Colonial America Technology & Civilization The Age of Jefferson American Revolution Technology & Environment U.S. Naval Development The Age of Jefferson American Naval History The Profession of History War of 1812 Administrative: Aug '02 – Present Director, Center for Texas Studies at TCU Apr '08 – July '14 Curator of History, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Aug '03 – Aug '04 Chair, University Intercollegiate Athletics Committee Jan '01 – Dec '03 Chair, Educational Programs TCU SACS Self-Study Aug '97 – July '00 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History Aug '98 – May '99 Chair, TCU Research and Creative Activities Committee Aug '95 – May '97 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History Aug '87 – June '88 Auburn University Fraternity Advisor in Student Affairs, 32 National Fraternities & 4,000 men PUBLICATIONS Books: In Harm’s Way: A History of the American Military Experience, with David Coffey and Kyle Longley. New York: Oxford University Press, in 2019. ISBN: 9780190210793 ed., From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Develop- ment of Cities and Territories, with Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4438-8536-2. “The Slave’s Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812,” New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-0-230-34208-8. ed., Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s, with Sylvia L. Hilton. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8130-3399-0. Paperback edition, 2011; ISBN 978-0-8130-3727-1. ed., A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827, New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2004. ISBN 0-9178-6050-0. Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55750-848-8. ed., Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15: With an Atlas, by Arsène Lacarrière Latour (1816). Gainesville: The Historic New Orleans Collec- tion and the University Press of Florida, 1999. Paperback edition, 2008. ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3335-8. Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821, with Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. ISBN 0- 8173-0880-6. Paperback edition, 2004. ISBN 0-8173-5117-5. Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and Merrimac, Abilene, TX: McWhiney Foundation Press, a Consortium member of Texas A&M University Press, 1996. ISBN 1-886661-15-4. “For the Purposes of Defense”: The Politics of the Jeffersonian Gunboat Program. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. ISBN 0-87413-559-1 Chapters: Daniel Coughlin, 105-106 in Wanted in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898-1903, edited by Leanna S. Schooley and Tom Kellam, (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2019). Brown Water, Blue Water: The Naval Battle for New Orleans, 101-116 in New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighteenth Naval History Symposium, edited by Lori Bogle and James Rentfrow, (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2018). “Objects of Scorn” Remembering African Americans and the War of 1812, 79-99 in The War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans, edited by Laura Lyons McLemore (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016). Naval War of 1812: Independence Confirmed, 1807-1815, 42-57 in America, Sea Power, and the World, edited by James C. Bradford (New York: Wiley Publishers, 2016). Arsène Lacarrière Latour: Architect, Military Engineer and Agent Provocateur in the Gulf of Mexico Borderlands, 105-124 in From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories, edited by Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez and Gene Allen Smith (London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016). The War on the Gulf Coast: American Ascendancy and a New Order, 103-116, in The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812, edited by Donald R. Hickey and Connie Clark (New York: Routledge, 2015). “Fighting for Freedom: African Americans and the War of 1812,” 94-107, in The War of 1812 (Washington, DC: National Park Service, 2013). “Wedged Between Slavery and Freedom: African American Equality Deferred,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/wedged-between- slavery-and-freedom.htm “Sanctuary in the Spanish Empire: An African American Officer Earns Freedom in Florida,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/sanctuary-in-the- spanish-empire.htm “American Liberty and Slavery in the Chesapeake: The Paradox of Charles Ball,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/american-liberty-and- slavery-in-the-chesapeake.htm “The Underground Railroad of 1812: Paths to Freedom along the Canadian Border,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/the-underground- railroad-changes-course.htm “Gambling for Freedom: Slaves Choosing Sides During the War of 1812,” 11-13, in We are One; The War of 1812: The Battles for St. Michaels, August 10 & 26, 1813 (St. Michaels, Maryland: Commissioners of St. Michaels, Maryland, 2013). Closing the Circle: TCU from Fort Worth to Fort Worth, 19-33, in A Century of Partner- ship: Fort Worth and TCU, Mary L. Volcansek, ed. (TCU Press, 2011). “Motivated Only by the Love of Humanity”: Arsène Lacarrière Latour and the Struggle for the Southwest, 298-320, in Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s, Gene Allen Smith, and Sylvia L. Hilton, eds. (University Press of Florida, 2010). Foreign Wars of the Early Republic, 1798-1816, 39-58, in A Companion to American Military History, James C. Bradford, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009). Defining the Nexus of Empire: The Louisiana Purchase and Texas Borderlands, 1803-1821, 21-30, in Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps, (Texas Christian University Press, 2007). A Means to an End: Gunboats and Thomas Jefferson’s Theory of Defense, 201-211, in Naval Warfare, 1680-1850, Richard Harding, ed. (Ashgate Publishers, 2006). A “Species of Milito-Nautico-Guerilla-Plundering Warfare”: Admiral Alexander Cochrane’s Naval Campaign Against the United States, 1814-15, 173-204, with C.J. Bartlett, in Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754-1815, Julie Flavell and Stephen Conway, eds. (University Press of Florida, 2004). Giving Jackson Victory: Thomas ap Catesby Jones, the Battle of Lake Borgne, and British Frustration Along the Gulf, 91-108, in A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of the Louisiana Florida Parishes, 1699-2000, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., ed. (Louisiana State University Press, 2004). Nexus of Empire: Louisiana, Great Britain, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 35-44, 273-275, in The Louisiana Purchase and Its People: Perspective from the New Orleans Conference, Paul C. Hoffman, ed. (Louisiana Historical Assoc. and Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana—Lafayette, 2004). Arsène Lacarrière Latour: Immigrant, Patriot-Historian, and Foreign Agent, 83-98, in The Human Tradition in United States History: The Early American Republic, Michael A. Morrison, ed. (Scholarly Resources, 2000). “To Conquer without War”: The Philosophy of Jeffersonian Expansion in the Spanish Gulf Borderlands, 1800-1820, 7-19, in Louisiana: The Purchase and its Aftermath, 1800-1830, Delores E. Labbé, ed. (Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998). Articles: “The Tripoli Monument: Commemorating Our Forgotten Past,” in Journal of Maritime Archaeology (August 2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-020-09271-z “Defeat at Fort Bowyer: The Failed British Campaign for the Gulf Coast During the War of 1812,” in Alabama Heritage 113 (Summer 2014): 8-17. “Fighting for Freedom: African Americans Fighting the War of 1812” in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Fall 2012): 206-227. “To Touch or Not to Touch: That is the Question!” Journal of Museum Education 36 (Summer 2011): 137-146. “A Most Unprovoked, Unwarrantable, and Dastardly Attack”: James Buchanan, Paraguay, and the Water Witch Incident of 1855, with Larry Bartlett, The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord 19 (July 2009): 269-290. Preventing the “Eggs of Insurrection” from Hatching: The U.S. Navy and Control of the Mississippi River, 1806-1815, in The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord 18 (July-October 2008): 92-103. Fighting a War on Terror or, “Our Country Right, or Wrong!” Reviews in American History 35 (September 2007): 358-365. “Zebulon Pike, the Empire of Liberty, and Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny,” in the San Luis Valley Historical Review 34 (2007): 7-21. “’A bloody expedition and so much the better’: A British Midshipman Records the War of 1812 in Maine and Louisiana,” Journal of the War of 1812 8 (Spring/Summer 2004): 39-46.
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