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Andrew Graybill

Andrew Graybill is a professor of history and the director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is currently working, with Ari Kelman, on his next book, The Indian Wars for America: A Very Short Introduction.

Power of the Peoples

Power of the Peoples

American history was shaped as much by Native Americans as by their colonizers

by Andrew Graybill | Thursday, September 01, 2022
Territories of Conquest

Territories of Conquest

A new history of the bloodletting that opened the frontier

by Andrew Graybill | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Beyond the Colonies

Beyond the Colonies

What else happened during the year of independence?

by Andrew Graybill | Monday, June 09, 2014
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Tour de Horse

A masterly retelling of a death on the Plains

by Andrew Graybill | Wednesday, December 01, 2010

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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