About Boyd Cothran Boyd Cothran is associate professor of history at York University. Books by Boyd Cothran The Edwin Fox How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914 by (author) Boyd Cothran & Adrian Shubert Remembering the Modoc War Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence by (author) Boyd Cothran