James P PateIndependent scholar JAMES P. PATE is an emeritus professor of history at the University of West Alabama, where he served as a department chair, dean, and vice president. He also served as a dean at Southeastern Oklahoma State, vice president at Northastern State University, and campus dean at the University of Mississippi-Tupelo. He is a graduate of Delta State University and earned an MA and PhD from Mississippi State. He has previously edited "When This Evil War is Over" The Correspondence of the Francis Family, 1860-1865, Cherokee Newspapers, 1828-1906, and The Reminiscences of George Strother Gaines. His contributions to research, preservation, and archaeological investigations at the Fort Tombecbé/Fort Confederation complex led to the transfer of the significant eighteenth-century French-British-Spanish site to the University of West Alabama. Read More Read Less