Charles Hudson

Emeritus
chudson@uga.edu

I continue my long-term inquiry into the social history of the native peoples of the Southeastern United States. After having spent several years reconstructing the explorations of Hernando de Soto, Tristan de Luna, and Juan Pardo, I now have some understanding of what polities lived where in the sixteenth-century Southeast. I am now beginning a project that will examine how these sixteenth-century native polities disintegrated and how the survivors reorganized themselves into the peoples and polities who are thought of as the Indians of the Old South, e.g. the Creeks, Choctaws, Chicasaws, Cherokees, and so on.

Presently I am completing three books: (1) Co-edited with Robbie Ethridge, Early Social History of the Southeastern Indians (tentative title); (2) Co-edited with John C. Guilds, The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms (tentative title); and (3) Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa. The latter is a historical novel set in 1560, at the time when members of the Tristan de Luna expedition visited the chiefdom of Coosa in northwestern Georgia. It is a didactic novel whose purpose is to convey an imaginative (but disciplined) reconstruction of the world-view of a sixteenth-century chiefdom in the American South.

Recent publications:

• Hudson, Charles. 1997. Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• Hudson, Charles and Carmen Chaves Tesser (eds.). 1994. The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• Milanich, Jerald and Charles Hudson. 1993. Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
• Hudson, Charles. 1990. The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568, with Documents Relating to the Pardo Expeditions Transcribed, Translated and Annotated by Paul E. Hoffman. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Hudson, Charles (editor). 1985. Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Sourcebook. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
• Hudson, Charles (editor). 1979. Black Drink: A Native American Tea. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• Hudson, Charles. 1976. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
• Hudson, Charles (editor). 1975. Four Centuries of Southern Indians. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• Hill, Jr., Samuel S., with Edgar T. Thompson, Ann Firor Scott, Charles Hudson, and Edwin S. Gaustad. 1972. Religion and the Solid South. Nashville, New York: Abingdon Press.
• Hudson, Charles (editor) 1971. Red, White, and Black: Symposium on Indians in the Old South, Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings No. 5. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
• Hudson, Charles 1970. The Catawba Nation. Athens: University of Georgia Press.