Mary E. Young
Professor Emeritus
454 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
yngm@mail.rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.2054
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1955
Courses Offered
(subject to change)
Spring 2009
HIS 172: Indians and Other Americans
Spring 2010
HIS 172: Indians and Other Americans
Fields of Interest
American history in the early national and Jacksonian periods; American Indians.
I am currently working on a book, "The American Republic and the Cherokee Nation"--perspectives on the removal of the Cherokee from Appalachia to Oklahoma from the points of view of the federal government, the surrounding states, missionaries, and the Cherokee Nation. I am also interested in questions of violent and non-violent conflict resolution on the Indian frontier.
Representative Publications:
- "John Ross: Cherokee Chief and Defender of the Nation," in Michael Morrison, ed., The Human Tradition in Antebellum America (2000).
- "Conflict Resolution on the Indian Frontier," Journal of the Early Republic (1996).
- "The Dark and Bloody but Endlessly Inventive Middle Ground of Indian Frontier Historiography," Journal of the Early Republic (1993).
- "The Exercise of Sovereignty in Cherokee Georgia," Journal of the Early Republic (1990).
- "Racism in Red and Black: Indians and Other Free People of Color in Georgia Law, Politics, and Removal Policy," Georgia Historical Quarterly (1989).
- "Tribal Reorganization in the Southeast, 1800-1840," in The Struggle for Political Autonomy (1989).
- "Pagans, Christians, and Backsliders, All: A Secular View of the Metaphysics of Indian-White Relations," in Calvin Martin, ed., The American Indian and the Problem of History (1987).
- "The Indian Question Revisited," Marxist Perspectives (1978).
- "The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic," American Quarterly (1981).
- "The West and American Cultural Identity: New Themes and Old Variations," Western Historical Quarterly (1970).
- The Frontier in American Development: Essays in Honor of Paul Wallace Gates, ed. with D. Ellis, et al. (1969).
- Redskins, Ruffleshirts and Rednecks: Indian Land Allotments in Alabama and Mississippi, 1830-1860 (1961).