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Research paper thumbnail of Dark matter and dark energy

Research paper thumbnail of Persistence on the Edge: The Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb

Native South, 2000

pp. 190-203

Research paper thumbnail of Choctaw Frontier: Incursion and Settlement in Northwest Louisiana and East Texas, 1760-1836

North Louisiana History Vol. 51 No. 3-4 Summer-Fall 2020, 2020

The article focuses on history associated with Choctaw people faced their own population pressure... more The article focuses on history associated with Choctaw people faced their own population pressures, factional warfare, the search for better lands for hunting and farming. It mentions Choctaw were the most numerous of the Muskogean speaking peoples to cross from the east to the west bank of the Mississippi River and Choctaw western migrations in the decade after the resettlement of the Apalachees at Rapide along the Red River and Choctaw were integral to the French trade in deer trade.

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell CV 2022

Curriculum Vitae 2022, 2022

My dissertation examines the thematic maps of American Indian homelands, languages, and culture e... more My dissertation examines the thematic maps of American Indian homelands, languages, and culture elements created in the past 200 years. Starting with a widely-used map, William C. Sturtevant's Early Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks it utilizes a genealogical framework to trace the map's intellectual history, academic genealogy, and cartographic antecedents. I argue that social-scientific maps developed as part of a transatlantic circulation of ideas regarding natural science, philology, and the place of American Indians in the world.

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell Curriculum Vitae 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Making Their Own Freedom

Book review of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Redike... more Book review of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Rediker (2012)

Research paper thumbnail of Nicola Pizzolato. Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban Change in Detroit and Turin (book review) Traversea: A Journal of Transatlantic History Vol 4 (2014).

Book review of Nicola Pizzolato's Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical Strugg... more Book review of Nicola Pizzolato's Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban Change in Detroit and Turin.

Research paper thumbnail of Decolonizing North America (book reviews)

Drafts by Robert Caldwell

Research paper thumbnail of Tragedy and Farce: On the 2024 Presidential Race

This paper posits a short note on the political moment we are living in, and briefly compares it ... more This paper posits a short note on the political moment we are living in, and briefly compares it to Germany in the early 1930s. The U.S. 2024 election cycle is the worst in a very long time.

For nearly thirty years I worked hard to forge a political party that will fight for the working class and oppressed (first in the Labor Party then the Green Party). As I did this, I got an earful from self-described “leftists” who were trapped inside the Democratic Party arguing that "this election is the most important in our lifetime" and "the Republicans are Fascists." In the past, I laughed at them. No more.

Research paper thumbnail of Afro-Indigenous Futurisms Bibliography/ Reading List (In Progress)

N/A, 2023

Afrofutursim's artistic genesis might be traced to the jazz of Sun Ra. Since the 1990s, it has bl... more Afrofutursim's artistic genesis might be traced to the jazz of Sun Ra. Since the 1990s, it has blossomed into a cultural aesthetic, philosopy of science, and history that focuses on the intersection of the African diaspora with science and technology.

More recently, Grace Dillon's anthology Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012) draws on science fiction, worldbuilding, slipstream (cf Gerald Viznor) and others to explore how science-fiction can aid processes of decolonization.

Thus far, little is written about Afro-Indigenous futurisms, especially in the context of North America. The purpose of this bibliography and reading list is to explore the intersections of Afro-futurism and Indigenous Futurisms.

Research paper thumbnail of Democrat trifecta at a time of growing fascism

Short political essay on January 6, 2021.

Book Reviews by Robert Caldwell

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell on Cherny, 'Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend'

H-Net, 2024

Book Review of Robert Cherny's Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend. Working Class in Ameri... more Book Review of Robert Cherny's Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend. Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. xv + 443 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780252044748.

Research paper thumbnail of Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (Book Review)

The American Historical Review, 2024

Robert Caldwell reviews Ellis' The Great Power of Small Nations

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell on Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations (book review)

American Historical Review, 2024

Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Phi... more Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. 330. Cloth $39.95.
Robert B Caldwell, Jr.

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Cole, Peter, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area.

H-Net Reviews, 2023

Labor and Social(ist) Activism on the Docks Robert Caldwell. Review of Cole, Peter, Dockworker ... more Labor and Social(ist) Activism on the Docks

Robert Caldwell. Review of Cole, Peter, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews. August, 2023.

Research paper thumbnail of Dark matter and dark energy

Research paper thumbnail of Persistence on the Edge: The Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb

Native South, 2000

pp. 190-203

Research paper thumbnail of Choctaw Frontier: Incursion and Settlement in Northwest Louisiana and East Texas, 1760-1836

North Louisiana History Vol. 51 No. 3-4 Summer-Fall 2020, 2020

The article focuses on history associated with Choctaw people faced their own population pressure... more The article focuses on history associated with Choctaw people faced their own population pressures, factional warfare, the search for better lands for hunting and farming. It mentions Choctaw were the most numerous of the Muskogean speaking peoples to cross from the east to the west bank of the Mississippi River and Choctaw western migrations in the decade after the resettlement of the Apalachees at Rapide along the Red River and Choctaw were integral to the French trade in deer trade.

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell CV 2022

Curriculum Vitae 2022, 2022

My dissertation examines the thematic maps of American Indian homelands, languages, and culture e... more My dissertation examines the thematic maps of American Indian homelands, languages, and culture elements created in the past 200 years. Starting with a widely-used map, William C. Sturtevant's Early Tribes, Culture Areas, and Linguistic Stocks it utilizes a genealogical framework to trace the map's intellectual history, academic genealogy, and cartographic antecedents. I argue that social-scientific maps developed as part of a transatlantic circulation of ideas regarding natural science, philology, and the place of American Indians in the world.

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell Curriculum Vitae 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Making Their Own Freedom

Book review of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Redike... more Book review of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Rediker (2012)

Research paper thumbnail of Nicola Pizzolato. Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban Change in Detroit and Turin (book review) Traversea: A Journal of Transatlantic History Vol 4 (2014).

Book review of Nicola Pizzolato's Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical Strugg... more Book review of Nicola Pizzolato's Challenging Global Capitalism: Labor Migration, Radical Struggle, and Urban Change in Detroit and Turin.

Research paper thumbnail of Decolonizing North America (book reviews)

Research paper thumbnail of Tragedy and Farce: On the 2024 Presidential Race

This paper posits a short note on the political moment we are living in, and briefly compares it ... more This paper posits a short note on the political moment we are living in, and briefly compares it to Germany in the early 1930s. The U.S. 2024 election cycle is the worst in a very long time.

For nearly thirty years I worked hard to forge a political party that will fight for the working class and oppressed (first in the Labor Party then the Green Party). As I did this, I got an earful from self-described “leftists” who were trapped inside the Democratic Party arguing that "this election is the most important in our lifetime" and "the Republicans are Fascists." In the past, I laughed at them. No more.

Research paper thumbnail of Afro-Indigenous Futurisms Bibliography/ Reading List (In Progress)

N/A, 2023

Afrofutursim's artistic genesis might be traced to the jazz of Sun Ra. Since the 1990s, it has bl... more Afrofutursim's artistic genesis might be traced to the jazz of Sun Ra. Since the 1990s, it has blossomed into a cultural aesthetic, philosopy of science, and history that focuses on the intersection of the African diaspora with science and technology.

More recently, Grace Dillon's anthology Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012) draws on science fiction, worldbuilding, slipstream (cf Gerald Viznor) and others to explore how science-fiction can aid processes of decolonization.

Thus far, little is written about Afro-Indigenous futurisms, especially in the context of North America. The purpose of this bibliography and reading list is to explore the intersections of Afro-futurism and Indigenous Futurisms.

Research paper thumbnail of Democrat trifecta at a time of growing fascism

Short political essay on January 6, 2021.

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell on Cherny, 'Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend'

H-Net, 2024

Book Review of Robert Cherny's Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend. Working Class in Ameri... more Book Review of Robert Cherny's Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend. Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. xv + 443 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780252044748.

Research paper thumbnail of Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (Book Review)

The American Historical Review, 2024

Robert Caldwell reviews Ellis' The Great Power of Small Nations

Research paper thumbnail of Caldwell on Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations (book review)

American Historical Review, 2024

Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Phi... more Elizabeth N. Ellis. The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. 330. Cloth $39.95.
Robert B Caldwell, Jr.

Research paper thumbnail of Review of Cole, Peter, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area.

H-Net Reviews, 2023

Labor and Social(ist) Activism on the Docks Robert Caldwell. Review of Cole, Peter, Dockworker ... more Labor and Social(ist) Activism on the Docks

Robert Caldwell. Review of Cole, Peter, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area. H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews. August, 2023.