American Studies

Martin Crawford is Emeritus Professor of Anglo-American History.  He retired from full-time teaching in 2009 after thirty-five years at Keele where he specialized in Southern and Civil War history.  His publications include: The Anglo-American Crisis of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Times and America 1850-1862 (University of Georgia Press, 1987); William Howard Russell's Civil War: Private Diary and Letters, 1861-1862 (University of Georgia Press, 1992); Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South (University Press of Virginia 2001); and two co-edited two essay collections: with Alan J. Rice, Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform (University of Georgia Press, 1999); and with Richard Godden, Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars (University of Georgia Press, 2006).  Published essays include one of the first critical investigations into Charles Frazier’s bestselling Cold Mountain [“Cold Mountain Fictions: Appalachian Half-Truths,” Appalachian Journal (2003)].  His current research is on the history of the Potters’ Joint-Stock Emigration scheme of the 1840s.  

An active member of the American Studies community for many years, he was editor of the BAAS Pamphlet series from 1989 to 1993, and from 2000-2006 served as founding editor of the journal American Nineteenth Century History.  He is currently chair of BrANCH (British American Nineteenth Century Historians).