First Americans: A History of Native Peoples

Kenneth W. Townsend earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, two years after joining the faculty of the Department of History at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In addition to his teaching and university service responsibilities, Townsend served as Chair of the Department of History and established the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Coastal Carolina University, acting as its director for two years. He is the author of World War II and the American Indian (2000), South Carolina (On the Road Histories) (2008), and varied articles.

1. Native North America before European Contact 2. Native Peoples and European Newcomers 982–1585 3. Spanish Borderlands, 1527–1758 4. Europeans and the Eastern Woodlands to 1689 5. Native Americans and European Empire, 1700–1763 6. The Indians’ Revolution, 1763–1814 7. Removal, 1801–1846 8. Western Indians and the United States, 1800–1850 9. The Civil War Years, 1861–1865 10. Conflicting Postwar Directions, 1865–1877 11. The Struggle for Cultural Identity, 1877–1910 12. Progressivism and World War I: Charting Their Own Course in the Twentieth Century, 1900–1920 13. Postwar Directions for Native Americans, 1918–1929 14. The Great Depression, 1929–1940 15. American Indians Join the War Effort, 1940–1945 16. Redefining the Status of Native Americans in Post-World War II America, 1943–1962 17. Indian Activism in the Age of Liberalism, 1961–1980 18. Self-Determination to Decolonization: Native Americans into the Twenty-First Century 19. "We're Still Here"