Professor Kelly will be on leave during the academic year 2004-2005.
Please contact him at the following email address:
or at the following address and phone #:
2125 Watts Rd.
Houston, Texas
713.661.9848
Professor Kelly will be on leave during the academic year 2004-2005.
Please contact him at the following email address:
or at the following address and phone #:
2125 Watts Rd.
Houston, Texas
713.661.9848
Patrick J. Kelly, Associate Professor (Ph.D., New York University 1992), U.S. History,
focusing on the long-term national and international impact of the U.S. Civil War.
Publications: Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare State, 1865-1900 (Harvard University Press, 1997), and "The Election of 1896 and the Restructuring of Civil War Memory," which appears in Civil War History, September, 2003 and in The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Fellowships: National Endowment for the Humanities "Extending the Reach" Fellowship, 2001, University of Texas at San Antonio Faculty Research Award, 2002, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship (awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies), 2003, Texas State Historical Society, John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History, 2003.
Current Project: Los Algodones (The Time of Cotton): War, Rebellion and Trade along the Mexico - Trans-Mississippi Frontier, 1860-1867 (Louisiana State University Press, forthcoming.)
Los Algodones examines the transnational network of trade that developed between the Trans-Mississippi
Confederacy and Mexico during the 1860s. During this turbulent decade cotton was transported from
the Trans-Mississippi into northeastern Mexico, where it was then traded for war materiel and consumer
goods arriving from Europe, New York and Boston, or allowed to circulate freely among the markets of
the industrialized Atlantic world. My examination of this trade will illustrate the ways in which the
economics of the mid-19th century industrial Atlantic, driven by the cultivation, trade and
production of cotton, shaped and reshaped conceptions of nation and region in this fiercely contested
territorial space. The 1860s borderlands cotton trade organized the social, political, economic and
military relations of overlapping nations, regions and peoples -- Anglo-American (both Confederate and
Yankee), African-American, Mexican and Mexican-American, Native American and French -- in a
territorial space larger than Western Europe and centered by the Rio Grande River.