Gene A. Smith
American historian
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- PhD History University of Washington
- Masters History University of Washington
- Bachelors History University of Washington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gene A. Smith is an American historian. He is a professor of History and the director of the Center for Texas Studies at Texas Christian University. He is the author of several books. Early life Smith was born on Saturday, September 7, 1963, in Fort Payne, Alabama, and grew up in Albertville, Alabama. Playing sports and serving in the Civil Air Patrol as a teen, he graduated from Albertville High School in 1981. Growing up a University of Alabama fan, he instead chose to attend Auburn University for academic reasons—to become a veterinarian. Ultimately, a course in chemistry put him on the path to becoming a historian. Serving in Theta Xi Fraternity, he eventually became Vice-President and that service, assisted him to become the Auburn University Fraternity Advisor during the 1988-1989 academic years. He earned a bachelor's degree at Auburn University in 1984, followed by a master's degree in 1987 and a PhD in 1991.
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- An American Profession of Arms: The Army Officer Corps, 1784-1861@@@The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (1993) (34)
- One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U.S. Navy, 1890–1990 (1995) (33)
- A new chronology for Shakespeare's plays (2016) (26)
- Maritime history as world history (2004) (22)
- The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1981) (19)
- Nexus of empire : negotiating loyalty and identity in the revolutionary borderlands, 1760s-1820s (2011) (15)
- The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785–1800: O'Brien, Conor Cruise: Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 385 pp., Publication Date: November 1996 (1997) (14)
- The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 (2013) (13)
- Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I (2007) (6)
- The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution (2005) (3)
- To Touch or Not to Touch: That is the Question! (2011) (3)
- American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family-Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth (1992) (3)
- Ironclad Captain: Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841–1864: Slagle, Jay: Kent: Kent State University Press 440 pp., Publication Date: February 1997 (1998) (3)
- Mounted warriors : from Alexander the Great and Cromwell to Stewart, Sheridan, and Custer (2009) (2)
- Fighting a War on Terror or "Our Country, Right or Wrong!" (2007) (2)
- The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History (review) (2012) (2)
- Origins of the American Navy: Sea Power in the Colonies and the New Nation (1994) (1)
- “A Most Unprovoked, Unwarrantable, and Dastardly Attack”: James Buchanan, Paraguay, and the Water Witch Incident of 1855 (2009) (1)
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (2014) (0)
- The Papers of George Washington: Retirement Series. Vol. I: March–December 1797. Ed. by W. W. Abbot. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998. xxviii, 566 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8139-1737-9.) (1999) (0)
- In Katrina's Wake: The U.S. Coast Guard and the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005 (2010) (0)
- The Tripoli Monument: Commemorating Our Forgotten Past Gene Allen Smith, Texas Christian University (2020) (0)
- A Promising Reset (2015) (0)
- Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and Its Aftermath (review) (2003) (0)
- Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers who Transformed a Nation by Julie M. Fenster (review) (2018) (0)
- The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World (review) (2006) (0)
- The American Military Tradition: From Colonial Times to the Present: Carroll, John M. and Colin F. Baxter, eds.: Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 246 pp., Publication Date: January 1993 (1993) (0)
- A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814 (review) (2007) (0)
- Entangling Migration History (2016) (0)
- Robert M. Owens.Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy.:Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy (2008) (0)
- The Roundabout Route to the “New Purchase” (2015) (0)
- The British Quest for a Fresh Start (2015) (0)
- Don't Give Up the Ship!: Myths of the War of 1812 (review) (2007) (0)
- The Elusive Boundary and the Creek-Choctaw War (2015) (0)
- Tennesseans at War, 1812‐1815: Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans. By Tom Kanon. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014. 272 pp. (2015) (0)
- Federalists Reconsidered: Ben-Atar, Doron, and Barbara B. Oberg, eds.: Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 310 pp., Publication Date: March 1999 (1999) (0)
- Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America’s Revolutionary Era by Mike Bunn (2021) (0)
- American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence. By Jane Hampton Cook. (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 500. $26.99.) (2015) (0)
- Book Review: Inside the US Navy of 1812–1815 by William S. Dudley (2022) (0)
- Gilbert C. Din. War on the Gulf Coast: The Spanish Fight against William Augustus Bowles. (2013) (0)
- Preventing the “Eggs of Insurrection” from Hatching: The U.S. Navy and Control of the Mississippi River, 1806-1815 (2008) (0)
- Creek Ferment and the Plan of 1764 (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews: The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age, by Jeffrey M. Dorwart with Jean K. Wolf. (2003) (0)
- War on the Gulf Coast (2015) (0)
- The Generals: Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Pakenham, and the Road to the Battle of New Orleans (review) (2006) (0)
- Defending the Old Dominion: Virginia and Its Militia in the War of 1812 by Stuart L. Butler (review) (2014) (0)
- Foreign Wars of the Early Republic, 1798–1816 (2010) (0)
- Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic by David Head (review) (2016) (0)
- The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History by John S. Sledge (review) (2020) (0)
- Defiant Peacemaker: Nicholas Trist in the Mexican War (1998) (0)
- Robert M. Owens. Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2007. Pp. xxx, 311. $34.95 (2008) (0)
- J. C. A. Stagg. Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776–1821. (Lamar Series in Western History.) New Haven: Yale University Press. 2009. Pp. x, 307. $50.00 (2009) (0)
- The Deadlocked Election of 1800: Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance. By James Roger Sharp. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Pp. xiv, 239. $34.95.) (2012) (0)
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