He has also written for a number of magazines, including New Statesman, BBC History Magazine, and History Today, and appeared on radio ( BBC Book Café, BBC 6Music, BBC World Service, BBC Radio Norfolk) and television ( Heir Hunters, Myth Hunters). Alongside those books, he has written numerous articles on a wide variety of topics - outlaws and highwaymen, country music, antebellum religious movements - for various journals and collections. So far, they have published new editions of What Katy Did, Five Little Peppers and will soon release an anthology of Lydia Maria Child's writing for children. With his colleague Hilary Emmett, he also edits a series of books for the UEA Publishing Project that are co-produced in collaboration with UEA students. Sarah Churchwell, Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers, from Charlotte Temple to The Kite Runner (Continuum, 2012) with Dr Ross Hair, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music : America Changed Through Music (Routledge, 2016) and most recently, Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America (Louisiana State University Press, 2021).
He is also the editor of a variety of collections: Blacklegs, Card Sharps and Confidence Men: Nineteenth-Century Mississippi River Gambling Stories (Louisiana State University Press, 2010) with Prof. His latest book, Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain (Louisiana State University Press, 2019), is a pioneering account of Twain's intimate and long-lasting creative engagement with the Mississippi which also details the thriving cultural life of the Mississippi in this period and highlights a diverse collection of voices each telling their own story of the river. His second book, Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century (Continuum, 2011), was an exploration of the life and culture of one of America's most fascinating cities during a crucible period in its history. Much of his research is focussed around the social and cultural history of the Mississippi River. His first book, River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi Before Mark Twain (Louisiana State University Press, 2007) was an interdisciplinary examination of the different roles played by the Mississippi in antebellum American culture.
Thomas Ruys Smith is an academic and writer who specialises in the study of nineteenth-century America. He is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and co-editor of the journals Comparative American Studies and New Area Studies.
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