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Juliana Barr

Associate Professor of History
History
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
211 Classroom Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Los Adaes, the First Capital of Spanish Texas

Journal Article JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY · 2021 Cite

Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America

Journal Article JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY · 2021 Cite

Scaling Time in Pursuit of Native Sovereignty in American History

Journal Article SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL · 2018 Cite

Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians

Book · April 20, 2015 They are “virgin land” stories, and they grossly distort California Indian history. I want to conclude by touching back explicitly to the theme of this book: Why you can't teach U.S. history without Indians. The fundamental truth is that, of course,& ... Cite

Contested Spaces of Early America

Book · March 24, 2014 This will not merely help us to understand early America equally from an Indian perspective; it also allows us to come to grips with the everyday realities of those long-ago worlds.26 The history of American space is an old one, with narrative ... ... Cite

The English Frontier in North America

Book Review Reviews in American History · December 2012 Full text Cite

The Red Continent and the Cant of the Coastline

Journal Article The William and Mary Quarterly · 2012 Full text Cite

Beyond the "Atlantic World": Early American History as Viewed from the West

Journal Article OAH Magazine of History · January 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands

Book · November 30, 2009 Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. ... Cite

Review of The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen

Book Review Pacific Historical Review · 2009 Cite

Review of A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez

Book Review The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History · 2009 Cite

How Do You Get from Jamestown to Santa Fe? A Colonial Sun Belt

Journal Article The Journal of southern history · 2007 Cite

From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands

Journal Article Journal of American History · June 1, 2005 Full text Cite

A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the “Land of the Tejas

Journal Article The William and Mary Quarterly · 2004 Cite

Review of Comanches in the New West, 1895-1908 by Stanley Noyes and Daniel J. Gelo

Book Review Journal of the West: an illustrated quarterly of Western American history and culture · 2001 Cite