Ron Soodalter - Author Bibliography

BOOKS

Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader. New York: Atria, 2006 hardcover, 2007 paperback

The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California, 2009 (co-authored with Kevin Bales)

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War Ed., Tod Widmer. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2013, The New York Times

The 100 Greatest Western Movies of All Time Editors of American Cowboy Magazine. Guilford, CT: Twodot, 2011

ARTICLES IN PRINT

Column, America's Civil War: “The Tale of Three State Songs”

Feature Article, Smithsonian: “Captain Gordon’s Infamy”

Column, America’s Civil War: “O’ Shenandoah, You Roiling Raider!”

Feature Article, America’s Civil War: “One Man’s Terrorist”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Death in the Firebox: The South’s Lethal Coal Torpedo”

Column, America’s Civil War: “‘Steak for Supper, Boys!’ Wade Hampton and his Cattle-Rustling Rebels”

Feature Article, America’s Civil War: “In the Heat of Passion: the Murders of Three Generals”

Feature Article, True West: “A Race to End All Races”

Column, America’s Civil War: “‘Shoddy!’ Profiteering during the Civil War”

Feature Article, Portland: “Nathaniel Gordon and the African Slave Trade”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Lincoln Stumps New Hampshire!”

Feature Article, True West: “Here Come the Cavalry!”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Big John Baylor Takes New Mexico for the Confederacy”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Rebels on the Run: The Battle for High Bridge”

*Feature Article, Maryland Life: “Betsy Bonaparte, the Princess of Baltimore”

Feature Article, Maryland Life: “Lee’s Invasion of Maryland”

Feature Article, Civil War Times: “Hanging Captain Gordon”

Feature Article, Military History: “To the Brink in Cuba, 1873: The Virginius Affair”

Feature Article, Military History: “William Walker, the Man Who would be King”

Feature Article, Portland: “Confederates at the Gates: The Rebel Raid on Portland”

Feature Article, New York Archives: “These Pimps of Piracy”

Feature Article, American Cowboy: “The Art and Chaos of the Gunfight”

Cover Article, America’s Civil War: “The Rebel Raid on St. Albans, Vermont”

Feature Article, Chicago Front Desk: “Around We Go! The History of Chicago’s Iconic Ferris Wheel”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Murder with a Vengeance: The Legend behind the Lincoln Assassination”

Feature Article, America’s Civil War: “The Horses of Grant and Lee”

Column, America’s Civil War: “The Great Emancipator’s Mass Execution: Lincoln and the Sioux”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Old Blue Light Attends a Hanging”

Column, America’s Civil War: “‘Bitter’ Bierce and the Macabre Side of War”

Feature Article, Military History: “Cold Harbor”

Feature Article: Civil War Times: “Slave Ships”

Feature Article, Maryland Life: “Sing a Song of Treason! Maryland’s State Song”

Cover Article, Wild West: “Champion of the Johnson County War”

Column, America’s Civil War: “The Man who Surrendered Texas”

Feature Article, Missouri Life: Saving Missouri for the Union: The Battle of Boonville”

Feature Article, America’s Civil War: “Chaos by Committee: Lincoln and the War Committee”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Spurning the Northern Scum! Three Inappropriate State Songs”

Column, America’s Civil War: “‘March on,’ He Said!’ The Legend of Barbara Fritchie”

Feature Article, Civil War Times: “Martin Delany and the Cainhoy Massacre”

Feature Article, Maryland Life: “The Saga of Anna Ella Carroll”

Column, America’s Civil War: “Lincoln and the Cossack: John Turchin and the Sack of Athens”

Feature Article, Texas Highways: “George W. Littlefield: A Man of Many Parts”

Feature Article, Civil War Times: The Privateer Jeff Davis”

Column, America’s Civil War: “The Alligator: The U.S. Navy’s First Submarine”

Feature Article, Military History: “Massacre and Retribution: Destruction of the Iroquois”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “William Henry Jackson Documents the West”

Feature Article, Down East: “Portland’s Slave Trading Native Son”

Feature Article, Maryland Life: “The Legislature Goes to Jail”

Column, America’s Civil War: “The Legend of Little Drummer Boy”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “The Tom Dennison Machine”

Feature Article, America’s Civil War: “New York City Secedes!”

Feature Article, Wild West: “‘Watch your topknot!’ Scalping in the Old West”

Cover Article, Civil War Times: “Last Raid of a Rebel Pirate”

Column, New York Times: “Up in the Air! Balloons in the Civil War”

Column, New York Times: “The Short Life of a Rebel Privateer”

Column, New York Times: “The Battle of Ball’s Bluff”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “The Nebraska Fur Trade, Yesterday and Today”

Feature Article, Pennsylvania Magazine: “Rebels in the Streets!”

Feature Article, America's Civil War: "Union Troops Amok in Washington!"

Column, New Hampshire Magazine: "The Lincoln Tusk: A Bequest for Exeter"

Feature Article, Oklahoma Today: "the Two Bills: The Tilghman/Doolin Bond"

Feature Article, Military History: " 'They Must Be Removed!' The Second Seminole War"

Feature Article, Kentucky Monthly: " 'If Whiskey Don't Kill Me…' Kentucky White Lightning in Song, Saga, and History"

Feature Article, Maryland Life: "Maryland in the War of 1812"

Feature Article, Missouri Life: "Missouri during the War of 1812"

Feature Article, America's Civil War: "The Concept of Honor in the Civil War"

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “Ogallaly! The Wild Days of a Nebraska Cow Town”

Feature Article, Pennsylvania Magazine: “The War of 1812: Pennsylvania Takes a Stand”

Feature Article, Oklahoma Today: “Henry Starr: The Cherokee Badman”

Feature Article, Kentucky Monthly: “Kentucky in the War of 1812”

Feature Article, Wild West: “Dave Mather: ‘You Have Lived Long Enough!’”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “Solomon Butcher: Photographing the Prairie Life”

Feature Article, Kentucky Monthly: “Hell in Kentucky: The Bloody Saga of the Rebel Guerrilla Champ Ferguson”

Feature Article, Kentucky Monthly: “‘Yankee’ Bligh, Kentucky Manhunter”

Feature Article, Wild West: “Real Life on the Early Cattle Drives”

Book Review, Military History: "Ethan Allen: His Life and Times"

Book Review, Military History: "Cain at Gettysburg"

Book Review, Military History: "The Gods of Prophetstown"

Feature Article, Military History: "The Second Seminole War"

Feature Article, Military History: "The Battle of Chippawa"

Feature 3-Part Series, Kentucky Monthly: "The History of Kentucky Music"

Feature Article, Missouri Life: "Far West: The Ultimate Ghost Town"

Feature Article, Oklahoma Today: " 'Absalom, my Son!' Bass Reeves Tracks Down his Son"

Feature Article, Louisiana Life: "Roberdeau Wheat and the Louisiana Tigers"

Feature Article, Louisiana Life: "Ponchatoula! The First-hand Account of a Battle"

Column, New York Times: "Lincoln and the Sioux"

Column, New York Times: "Shoddy!"

Column, New York Times: "The Limits of Lincoln's Mercy"

Feature Article, Military History: "The Life and Career of Winfield Scott"

Feature Article, The Paper: "Contractors, Banks, and the Local Economy"

Feature Article, Maryland Life: “The Dred Scott Decision and the Cause of Emancipation”

Feature Article, The Paper: “Tourism in Cold Spring”

Feature Article, America’s Civil War: “The Southernmost Rebels: the Saga of the Confederados”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “Shoot the Buffalo! Grand Duke Alexis’s Celebrity Hunt”

Feature Article, Military History: “Charge! The Australian Light Horse at Beersheba”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “Women to the Fore! Early Feminism in Nebraska”

Cover Article, Nevada: “The Great Equalizer”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “Happy as a Big Sunflower! The Frontier Rambles of Rolf Johnson”

Feature Article, The Paper: “Rolling on the River: The Rebirth of the SS Columbia”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “An Oasis of Tolerance: From Slavery to Nebraska”

Feature Article, Oklahoma Today: “Outlawed by Mistake: The Saga of Ned Christie”

Feature Article, Kentucky Monthly: “A Blight on the State: Human Trafficking on Kentucky Today”

Feature Article, Oklahoma Today: “The Short, Unlikely Outlaw Careers of Cattle Annie and Little Britches”

Column, New York Times: “The Unsung Regiment: The Courageous Stand of the Colored 55th”

Feature Article, Louisiana Life: “General P.G.T. Beauregard: An Intimate Portrait”

Article, The Paper: “Human Trafficking in our Back Yards”

Article, The Paper: “Beacon: A Hundred-Year Retrospective”

Feature Article, Wild West: “Annie Oakley and the Scandal of the Century”

8-Part Series, Nevada: “A History of Nevada”

Feature Article, Nebraska Life: “Bright Eyes”

Column, New York Times: “Rebels Invade Pennsylvania!”

Column, New York Times: “Buford Saves the Union at Gettysburg”

*Winner, 2010 Gold Award, International and Regional Magazine Association (IRMA)