Fields of Interest:
My principal areas of interest are the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, and humans in nature. My current research is for a book tentatively entitled Independence: The Beginnings of the United States, which is an attempt to place the American Revolution within an eighteenth century world historical context.
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- HIS 100: Gateway: The World of Thomas Jefferson
- HIS 145: Early America, 1600-1800
- HIS 333W/433: U.S. Colloquium I
- HIS 345W/445: Just Wars
- Intensive Readings on Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America
Representative Publications:
- The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition (2008).
- Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness (2002).
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Related Writings (2001).
- The Natures of John and William Bartram (1996).
- Bloody Dawn: Race and Violence in the Antebellum North (1996).
- William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings (edited, 1996).
- Bloody Dawn: Race and Violence in the Antebellum North (1991).
- The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (1986).
