Gene Allen Smith 

Education

• Ph.D. – Auburn University

• M.A. – Auburn University

• B.A. – Auburn University

Major Publications

• Co-editor. John Paul Jones Selected Papers, with James C. Bradford, under Revision.

• Co-editor. TCU’s First 100 Years: Images and Stories, Fort Worth, with Jackson W. Pearson. (TCU Press, 2023).

• Co-editor. Coloring Texas History: A Texas History Coloring Book, with LeAnna Schooley. (TCU Press, 2022).

• Co-editor, A Fortified Sea: The Defense of the Caribbean during the Eighteenth Century, with Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez. (University of Alabama Press, 2023).

• Co-author.  In Harm’s Way: A History of the American Military Experience, with David Coffey and Kyle Longley. (Oxford University Press, 2019).

• Co-editor. From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories, with Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).

• Author, “The Slave’s Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812,” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

• Co-editor. Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s, with Sylvia L. Hilton. (University Press of Florida, 2010).

• Editor. A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827, (The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2004).

• Author. Thomas ap Catesby Jones: Commodore of Manifest Destiny, (Naval Institute Press, 2000).

• Editor., Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15: With an Atlas, by Arsène Lacarrière Latour (1816). (The Historic New Orleans Collection and the University Press of Florida, 1999. Paperback edition, 2008)

• Co-Author. Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821, with Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. (The University of Alabama Press, 1997, 2004).

• Author.  Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between the Monitor and Merrimac, (McWhiney Foundation Press, a Consortium member of Texas A&M University Press, 1996).

• Author.  “For the Purposes of Defense”: The Politics of the Jeffersonian Gunboat Program. (University of Delaware Press, 1995).

Chapters

• “Naval War of 1812: Independence Confirmed, 1807-1815,” 42-57, in America, Sea Power, and the World, edited by James C. Bradford and John Bradford (Wiley Publishers, 2022).

• “Daniel Coughlin,” 105-106 in Wanted in America: Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Police Department, 1898-1903, edited by Leanna S. Schooley and Tom Kellam, (TCU Press, 2019).

• “Brown Water, Blue Water: The Naval Battle for New Orleans,” 101-116 in New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers From the Eighteenth Naval History Symposium, edited by Lori Bogle and James Rentfrow, (Naval War College Press, 2018).

• “‘Objects of Scorn’ Remembering African Americans and the War of 1812,” 79-99, in The War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans, edited by Laura Lyons McLemore (Louisiana State University Press, 2016).

• “Naval War of 1812: Independence Confirmed, 1807-1815,” 42-57, in America, Sea Power, and the World, edited by James C. Bradford (Wiley Publishers, 2016).

• “Arsène Lacarrière Latour: Architect, Military Engineer and Agent Provocateur in the Gulf of Mexico Borderlands,” 105-124, in From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean: Military Engineers in the Development of Cities and Territories, edited by Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez and Gene Allen Smith (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).

• “The War on the Gulf Coast: American Ascendancy and a New Order,” 103-116, in The Routledge Handbook of the War of 1812, edited by Donald R. Hickey and Connie Clark (Routledge, 2015).

• “Fighting for Freedom: African Americans and the War of 1812,” 94-107, in The War of 1812 (National Park Service, 2013).

• "Wedged Between Slavery and Freedom: African American Equality Deferred,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/wedged-betweenslavery-and-freedom.htm

• “Sanctuary in the Spanish Empire: An African American Officer Earns Freedom in Florida,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/sanctuary-in-thespanish-empire.htm

• "American Liberty and Slavery in the Chesapeake: The Paradox of Charles Ball,” U.S. National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/american-liberty-andslavery-in-the-chesapeake.htm

• “The Underground Railroad of 1812: Paths to Freedom along the Canadian Border,” U.S.National Park Service Website: http://www.nps.gov/stories/the-undergroundrailroad-changes-course.htm

• “Gambling for Freedom: Slaves Choosing Sides During the War of 1812,” 11-13, in We are One; The War of 1812: The Battles for St. Michaels, August 10 & 26, 1813 (Commissioners of St. Michaels, Maryland, 2013).

• “Closing the Circle: TCU from Fort Worth to Fort Worth,” 19-33, in A Century of Partnership: Fort Worth and TCU, Mary L. Volcansek, ed. (TCU Press, 2011).

• “‘Motivated Only by the Love of Humanity’: Arsène Lacarrière Latour and the Struggle for the Southwest,” 298-320, in Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s-1820s, Gene Allen Smith, and Sylvia L. Hilton, eds. (University Press of Florida, 2010).

• “Foreign Wars of the Early Republic, 1798-1816,” 39-58, in A Companion to American Military History, James C. Bradford, ed. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009).

• “Defining the Nexus of Empire: The Louisiana Purchase and Texas Borderlands, 1803-1821,” 21-30, in Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps, (Texas Christian University Press, 2007).

• “A Means to an End: Gunboats and Thomas Jefferson’s Theory of Defense,” 201-211, in Naval Warfare, 1680-1850, Richard Harding, ed. (Ashgate Publishers, 2006).

• “A ‘Species of Milito-Nautico-Guerilla-Plundering Warfare’: Admiral Alexander Cochrane’s Naval Campaign Against the United States, 1814-15,” 173-204, with C.J. Bartlett, in Britain and America Go to War: The Impact of War and Warfare in Anglo-America, 1754-1815, Julie Flavell and Stephen Conway, eds. (University Press of Florida, 2004).

• “Giving Jackson Victory: Thomas ap Catesby Jones, the Battle of Lake Borgne, and British Frustration Along the Gulf,” 91-108, in A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of the Louisiana Florida Parishes, 1699-2000, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., ed. (Louisiana State University Press, 2004).

• "Nexus of Empire: Louisiana, Great Britain, and the Imperial Struggle for North America,” 35-44, 273-275, in The Louisiana Purchase and Its People: Perspective from the New Orleans Conference, Paul C. Hoffman, ed. (Louisiana Historical Assoc. and Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana—Lafayette, 2004).

• “Arsène Lacarrière Latour: Immigrant, Patriot-Historian, and Foreign Agent,” 83-98, in The Human Tradition in United States History: The Early American Republic, Michael A. Morrison, ed. (Scholarly Resources, 2000).

• “‘To Conquer without War’: The Philosophy of Jeffersonian Expansion in the Spanish Gulf Borderlands, 1800-1820,” 7-19, in Louisiana: The Purchase and its Aftermath, 1800-1830, Delores E. Labbé, ed. (Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1998).

Articles

• “The Tripoli Monument: Commemorating Our Forgotten Past,” in Journal of Maritime Archaeology (August 2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-020-09271-z

• “Defeat at Fort Bowyer: The Failed British Campaign for the Gulf Coast During the War of 1812,” in Alabama Heritage 113 (Summer 2014): 8-17.

• “Fighting for Freedom: African Americans Fighting the War of 1812” in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Fall 2012): 206-227.

• “To Touch or Not to Touch: That is the Question!” Journal of Museum Education 36 (Summer 2011): 137-146.

• “A Most Unprovoked, Unwarrantable, and Dastardly Attack”: James Buchanan, Paraguay, and the Water Witch Incident of 1855, with Larry Bartlett, The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord 19 (July 2009): 269-290.

• “Preventing the ‘Eggs of Insurrection’ from Hatching: The U.S. Navy and Control of the Mississippi River, 1806-1815,” in The Northern Mariner/le marin du nord 18 (July-October 2008): 92-103.

• “Fighting a War on Terror or, ‘Our Country Right, or Wrong!’” Reviews in American History 35 (September 2007): 358-365.

• “Zebulon Pike, the Empire of Liberty, and Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny,” in the San Luis Valley Historical Review 34 (2007): 7-21.

• “’A bloody expedition and so much the better’: A British Midshipman Records the War of 1812 in Maine and Louisiana,” Journal of the War of 1812 8 (Spring/Summer 2004): 39-46.

• "The Continuing Battle of New Orleans,” The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 20 (Winter 2002): 2-5.

• “‘Our Flag was display’d within their Works’: The Treaty of Ghent and the Conquest of Mobile,” Alabama Review 52 (January 1999): 3-21.

• “Experimenting with Reform: Thomas ap Catesby Jones and the First Ordnance Survey, 1833-1834,” New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the 13th Naval History Symposium, William M. McBride and Eric P. Reed, eds. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998): 81-92.

• “‘A Little Sharp Looking Frenchman’ and his Battle of New Orleans,” The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly 16 (Winter 1998): 2-6.

• “Griffin Dobson: Virginia Slave, California Freeman,” Virginia Cavalcade, 46 (Autumn 1997): 278-287.

• “‘To Effect a Peace through the Medium of War’: Jefferson and the Circumstances of Force in the Mediterranean,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers 1996, 26 (1996): 155-160.

• “Ninety-Nine to One: Was the Quasi-War an American Naval Victory?” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers 1995, 25 (1995), 253-259.

• “A Means to an End: Gunboats and Thomas Jefferson’s Theory of Defense,” The American Neptune, 55 (Spring 1995): 111-121.

• “Floating a Republican Idea: Jefferson’s Gunboats at New Orleans,” Military History of the West, 24 (Fall 1994): 91-110. Awarded the 1994 General Jay A. Matthews, Jr., Prize for the best article in volume 24 of Military History of the West.

• "‘A Force of Being’: North Carolina and Jefferson’s Gunboat Navy,” Tributaries: A Publication of the North Carolina Maritime History Council, No. 4 (October 1994): 30-35.

• “Storm Over the Gulf: America’s Destiny Becoming Manifest,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850: Selected Papers 1994, 24 (1994): 510-516.

• “Thomas ap Catesby Jones and the First Implementation of the Monroe Doctrine,” Southern California Quarterly, 86 (Summer 1994): 139-152.

• “Thomas Oliver Larkin’s Paradise Lost,” Journal of the West, 33 (July 1994): 96-104.

• “U.S. Navy Gunboats and the Slave Trade in Louisiana Waters, 1808-1811,” Military History of the West, 23 (Fall 1993): 135-147.

• “‘To Conquer Without War’: The Philosophy of Jeffersonian Expansion in the Spanish Gulf Borderlands, 1800-1820,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Proceedings, 23 (1993): 415-422.

• “‘For the Purposes of Defense’: Thomas Jefferson’s Naval Militia,” The American Neptune, 53 (Winter 1993): 30-38. Awarded Honorable Mention for the 1994 U.S. Navy Department's Rear Admiral Ernest J. Eller Prize in Naval History.

• “Thomas Paine’s Naval Proposal to the Directory in 1797 and Jefferson’s Implementation of the Plan in the United States,” Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850, Proceedings, 22 (1992): 290-298.

• “‘A Perfect State of Preservation’: Thomas Jefferson’s Dry Dock Proposal,” Virginia Cavalcade, 39 (Winter 1990): 118-128. Republished in Warrior Newsletter, 2 April 1990.

• "The War that Wasn’t: Thomas ap Catesby Jones and the Seizure of Monterey,” California History, 66 (June 1987): 104-113, 155-156.

Contributions to Reference Works

• Catesby ap Roger Jones, 1:333-334, for The Civil War: Naval Encyclopedia, Spencer C. Tucker, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2011).

• War of 1812, 504-506, for Slavery in the United States: A Social, Political, and Historical Encyclopedia, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2007).

• James Monroe, 507, for Encyclopedia of World Trade since 1450, John J. McCusker, ed. (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005).

• Thomas ap Catesby Jones, 2:559-60; Battle of Lake Borgne, 2:606-07; Incident at Monterey, California (19 October 1842), 2:707; and Catesby ap Roger Jones, 2:557-58, for the Naval Warfare: An International Encyclopedia, Spencer C. Tucker, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2002).

• Jean Lafitte, 177-78; Battle of New Orleans, 250-52; Mississippi River, 226; and War of 1812, 347-49, for The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2002).

• Catesby ap Roger Jones, 3:1088; Monitor, USS vs. Virginia, CSS, 3:1348-1349; Monitor, 3:1346-1347; and Virginia, 3:2034-2036, for the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2000).

• War of 1812, 259, in The Chronology of World Slavery, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 1999).

• George Armistead, 1:596-598; Alexander Campbell Wilder Fanning, 7:701-702; Paul Hamilton, 9:928-930; and Thomas ap Catesby Jones, 12:251-252; in American National Biography, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

• Thomas ap Catesby Jones, 212-213; Monterey Incident of 1842, 270-271; and Thomas O. Larkin, 223, in The United States and Mexico at War, Donald S. Fraiser, ed. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998).

• Baratarian Pirates, 33-35; Fort Bowyer, 59-60; Roger Jones, 270; Thomas ap Catesby Jones, 270-271; William Jones, 271-273; Jean Lafitte, 286-287; Louisiana, 305-306; Mississippi River, 356;

• Mobile, 357-58; Daniel Patterson, 404-405; and Prospect Bluff, West Florida, 434-435, in the Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, eds. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 1997).

Exhibitions Curated

• Fort Worth Champions. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, February 14, 2011-September 6, 2011.

• Let’s Take the Streetcar: Journeying Through Fort Worth’s Past. Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, November 21, 2009-October 17, 2010.

Awards

• Who's Who in America; Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers; Who’s Who in American Education; One Thousand Great Intellectuals Leading Educators of the World

• Class of 1957 Distinguished Chair in Naval Heritage, 2013-14, 2022-23 Academic Year. United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

• Distinguished Service Award for Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2022.

• Commissioned an Honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy, July 2021, Austin, Texas.

• AddRan College of Liberal Arts (TCU) Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar, September 2016, 2010.

• U.S. Army War College, National Security Seminar, June 2016, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.

• 1994 General Jay A. Matthews, Jr., Prize for the best article in volume 24 of Military History of the West for “Floating a Republican Idea: Jefferson's Gunboats at New Orleans,” (Fall 1994), 91-110.

• USMA-ROTC MILITARY HISTORY FELLOWSHIP, Summer 1994, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

• Honorable Mention for the 1994 U.S. Navy Department's Rear Admiral Ernest J. Eller Prize in Naval History for the article “‘For the Purposes of Defense’: Thomas Jefferson's Naval Militia,” The American Neptune, 53 (Winter 1993): 30-38.

• Winston & Helen Cox Fellow, 1993-1994. Eastern Montana College Most Outstanding Faculty.

• Eastern Montana College Faculty Merit Award, Spring 1993.

• Auburn University History Graduate Student Liaison, 1988-1990

• Jack Bauer Award for Scholarship and Service, May 2011. Given by the North American Society for Oceanic History.