Michael Magliari

Research

Dr. Magliari currently is conducting research on Indian slavery and unfree labor in California and the American Southwest during the Gold Rush and Civil War eras.

Publications

Professor Magliari, with Michael J. Gillis, is the co-author of John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900 (Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003).  He is also a co-author of the revised fifth edition of The Elusive Eden: A New History of California (Waveland Press, 2020).  His most recent articles include “‘A Species of Slavery’: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree Indian Labor in the American West” Journal of American History (December 2022) and “The California Indian Scalp Bounty Myth: Evidence of Genocide or Just Faulty Scholarship?” California History (Summer 2023).  His previous articles have appeared in scholarly anthologies as well as the Pacific Historical Review, Agricultural History, and California History (please see attached c.v.).  In addition to numerous entries in the American National Biography and other encyclopedias, he has published over 70 book reviews in such journals as the Journal of American History, Ethnohistory, Pacific Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, California History, Agricultural History, Labor History, American Studies Journal, Journal of the West, Journal of World History, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Journal of Military History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Technology and Culture, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Southern California Quarterly, Historian, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Western Legal History, and Public Historian.