Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic

Contributors

Contributors John L. Brooke, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at the Ohio State University, is completing a manuscript entitled ‘‘Columbia: Civil Life in the World of Martin Van Buren’s Emergence, 1776–1821.’’ Andrew R. L. Cayton is Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His most recent books are Ohio: The History of a People (2002) and, with Fred Anderson, The Dominion of War: Liberty and Empire in North America, 1500–2000 (forthcoming). Saul Cornell is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Second Amendment Research Center of the John Glenn Institute at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788–1828 (1998). Seth Cotlar is Assistant Professor of History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. He is currently finishing a book on the rise and fall of transatlantic radicalism in the early republic. His article, ‘‘Joseph Gales and the Making of the Je√ersonian Middle Class,’’ appeared in James Horn, Jan Ellen Lewis, and Peter Onuf, eds., The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (2002). Reeve Huston teaches history at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York (2000), which won both the Dixon Ryan Fox prize of the New York State Historical Association and the Theodore Saloutous Prize of the Agricultural History Society. He is currently at work on a study of conflicts between party leaders, plebeian activists, evangelical reformers, female and black activists, and Indian leaders over the meaning and practice of ‘‘democracy ’’ between 1815 and 1840. Nancy Isenberg is co-holder of the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in NineteenthCentury American History at the University of Tulsa. She is author of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (1998) and co-editor, with Andrew Burstein, Contributors 414 of Mortal Remains: Death in Early America (2002). She is currently working on a biography of Aaron Burr. Richard R. John is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he specializes in the cultural and institutional history of the United States. He has written widely on topics in the history of American communications and is the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995). He is currently completing a history of American telecommunications between the 1830s and the 1910s. Albrecht Koschnik teaches early American history at Florida State University. His publications include ‘‘The Democratic Societies of Philadelphia and the Limits of the American Public Sphere, circa 1793–1795,’’ William and Mary Quarterly (2001). He is currently completing a manuscript dealing with voluntary associations, partisanship, gender, and the public sphere in Philadelphia between the American Revolution and the late 1830s. Richard Newman teaches African American and environmental history at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism (2002) and the forthcoming Black Founder: Richard Allen and the Early Republic. He is the co-editor of Pamphlets of Protest: Early African American Protest Writing, 1790–1860 (2001) and the forthcoming Palgrave Environment Reader. He is also an educational consultant to the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York. Je√rey L. Pasley is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri’s main campus in Columbia. He is author of ‘‘The Tyranny of Printers’’: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic (2001), which won the Association for Education in Mass Communication and Journalism’s best history book award for 2002. Andrew W. Robertson is Associate Professor of History at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790– 1900 (1995). He has been Principal Investigator of the First Democracy Project at the American Antiquarian Society. He is currently at work on a book about early republican political culture and voting, ‘‘The Second American Republic, 1787–1825.’’ Contributors 415 William G. Shade is Professor Emeritus of History at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He has taught at five universities in the United States and in Ireland, England, and Russia, where he most recently served as Nikolay V. Sivachev Distinguished Chair in American History at Moscow University. He has written over forty articles and authored or edited thirteen books, including Democratizing the Old Dominion...