Office: Morton Hall 233
Phone: 910-962-3315
Email at: lavered@uncw.edu or lavered@yahoo.com
Dr. David La Vere, a former United States Marine infantryman, is an ethnohistorian and a Professor of History here at UNCW. His specialty is American Indian history, particularly the Indians of the Southern Plains and the Southeastern part of the United States. He has published four books:
The Texas Indians. (Texas A&M University Press, 2004)
Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory. (University of
Oklahoma Press, 2000). Winner 2001 Oklahoma Book Award for Best Non-Fiction.
Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives. (Texas A&M University Press, 1998)
The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 800 AD - 1835. (University of Nebraska
Press, 1998)
La Vere's new book, Looting of Spiro Mounds: An American King Tuts Tomb, will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press in February 2007.
La Vere has also written several historical articles, including “Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Relations in the Greater Southwest.” They Made Us Many Promises: The American Indian Experience. Edited by Phillip Weeks. Wheeling, IL.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2002; "The Comanche-Kiowa Business Council of the Early 1900s" in Native Pathways: Economic Development and American Indian Culture. Edited by Brian C. Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill. University Press of Colorado. At Press and "Between Kinship and Capitalism: French-Spanish Rivalry in the Colonial Louisiana-Texas Indian Trade" in the Spring 1998 edition of The Journal of Southern History.
La Vere teaches classes on American Indian History, Southeastern Indians, American Indians in the 20th Century, History of the American West, Antebellum America, and, of course, basic American history surveys.
Click to see photo of UNCW Chancellor Rosemary DePaolo presenting First Lady Laura Bush with a copy of La Vere's recent book, The Texas Indians, in August 2004.
Click here to see a photo of Dr. La Vere with Josh Bernstein, host of the History Channel's show, Digging for the Truth. Dr. La Vere served as an on-camera commentator on the show about North Carolina's Lost Colony of Roanoke.
HST 500 - HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHODOLOGY
STUDENT HELP:
Dr. La Vere's "Guide for Writing Book Reviews"
HST 337 - AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE 20th CENTURY
HST 336 - AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY
HST 338 - THE INDIAN WARS
HST
354 - THE ANTEBELLUM U.S.
HST
522 - GRADUATE SEMINAR IN AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY
HST 440/518 - THE INDIAN WARS
HST 290-001/002 - THE PRACTICEOF HISTORY
Book written by La Vere:
