About John Cable

John Cable is assistant professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. He earned the Ph.D. in history at Florida State University in 2020. His forthcoming book, Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi (University Press of Kansas), will be out in December 2023.

John Cable is assistant professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. He earned the Ph.D. in history at Florida State University in 2020. His forthcoming book, Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi (University Press of Kansas), will be out in December 2023.

NBN Episodes hosted by John:

Matthew Kruer, "Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America" (Harvard UP, 2021)

February 7, 2024

Time of Anarchy

Matthew Kruer
Hosted by John Cable

Matthew Kruer's book Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America (Harvard UP, 2021) offers a gripping account of …

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, "Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

March 20, 2023

Allotment Stories

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien
Hosted by John Cable

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien's book Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (U Minnesota Press, 2021) collects mo…

Elizabeth N. Ellis. "The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

December 14, 2022

The Great Power of Small Nations

Elizabeth N. Ellis
Hosted by John Cable

The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) tackles questions of Native power past and prese…

Michael John Witgen, "Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America" (UNC Press, 2021)

July 28, 2022

Seeing Red

Michael John Witgen
Hosted by John Cable

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.…

Kyle T. Mays, "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2021)

February 18, 2022

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Kyle T. Mays
Hosted by John Cable

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Kyle T. Mays, an Afro-Indi…

Kevin Bruyneel, "Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States" (UNC Press, 2021)

November 29, 2021

Settler Memory

Kevin Bruyneel
Hosted by John Cable

Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, a…

Marilyn Lake, "Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform" (Harvard UP, 2019)

November 16, 2021

Progressive New World

Marilyn Lake
Hosted by John Cable

The paradox of Progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and as…

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, "As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock" (Beacon Press, 2019)

October 27, 2021

As Long As Grass Grows

Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Hosted by John Cable

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of…