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Tiffany Yecke Brooks

Tiffany Yecke Brooks holds a PhD in American and dramatic literature from Florida State University and has spoken and published widely on early portrayals of race in trans-Atlantic performance, as well as the emerging American identity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. She currently teaches nonfiction writing at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma and has written or co-written a number of books, including Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution and Remember Liss.

Stories from this author

The Cato who aided Hercules Mulligan might have been a man enslaved by the powerful Schuyler family.

Did an Enslaved Chocolatier Help Hercules Mulligan Foil a Plot to Assassinate George Washington?

New research sheds light on the possible identity of Cato, the Black man who conveyed the tailor’s lifesaving intelligence to the Americans during the Revolutionary War

As recent archival finds and reappraisals of well-known documents show, Liss forged her own path to freedom—and may have even spied on the British while doing so.

Did an Enslaved Woman Try to Warn the Americans of Benedict Arnold’s Treason?

New research sheds light on Liss, who was enslaved by the family of a Culper Spy Ring leader and had ties to British spymaster John André