American History Series: Deliverance Politics
During the War Between the States, the North and South each sought deliverance from the opposing side
American History Series
American History Series: Abolition and Racial Equality
A genealogy of anti-racism traces the roots of racial equality back to the Deep North in the Second Great Awakening
American History Series: Review: Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
A book review of Jack P. Greene’s Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
American History Series: Review: America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation
A book review of David Goldfield’s America Aflame: How The Civil War Created a Nation
American History Series: The Radical Whig Tradition
What are the ideological origins of the American Revolution?
American History Series: From Puritan To Yankee
Who are the Yankees? What are their origins?
American History Series: The Origins of New England and Virginia
A comparison of the historical development of the New England and Chesapeake colonies
American History Series: Charles G. Finney, William Lloyd Garrison and Northern Perfectionism
Why is the Northeast so weird? An introduction to The Yankee Question in American culture and politics
American History Series: Who Is Uncle Sam?
Uncle Sam and the rise of racial equality in the American North
American History Series: Review: The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
A book review of William W. Freehling’s The Road to Disunion: Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861
American History Series: Review: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A book review of Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
American History Series: Review: Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
A book review of Gordon S. Wood’s Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Southern History Series: Review: An Empire Divided
A book review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
American History Series: Review: American Insurgents, American Patriots
A book review of T.H. Breen’s American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People