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335 Acknowledgments I wish I could acknowledge adequately the influence of scholars I have never met. Without the work of G. J. Barker-Benfield, Pamela Clemit, Mark Philp, Barbara Taylor , Janet Todd, and Wil Verhoeven, among many others, I could never have imagined Love in theTime of Revolution, let alone written it. Luckily, I can thank the many people who helped shape this book in conversation as well as in print. In the late 1990s, while driving Mary Kelley to the airport after a lecture at Miami University, I mentioned the reaction of my teenage daughter Elizabeth to her presentation about women and writing in the early American Republic. After listening to Mary, Elizabeth had decided to start a journal, a practice she sustained for many years. I hope Love in the Time of Revolution persuades Mary that Elizabeth was not the only one paying attention. For opportunities to present early versions of various parts of this book, I am grateful to the colloquium series of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia; Dan Richter and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; the Clark Library and the History Department at University of California, Los Angeles; the 2009 annual conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; the Early Modern Collective at Miami University; and my fellow panelists at a session at the 2011 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Houston. The remarkably supportive staff of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, helped with last-minute queries, even though they clearly had nothing to do with the book Fred Anderson and I were supposed to be writing. On these and other occasions, I have benefited from the questions and comments of such generous scholars as Virginia Anderson, Gail Biederman, Kon Dierks, Carolyn Eastman, Niki Eustace, François Furstenberg, Carolyn Goffman, Dan Goffman , Ed Gray, Susan Gray, David Hancock, Dan Howe, Bryan Waterman, Gordon Wood, and Rosie Zagarri. I especially want to mention the whip-smart advice of Michael Meranze and the enormously helpful readers’ reports of Sarah Knott and Catherine O’Donnell. It’s been a pleasure working with everyone at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. I particularly thank Virginia Montijo Chew for her skillful and patient editing of a long manuscript. Students rarely appreciate the impact they have on their teachers. Those in my classes at Ball State University in the 1980s and Miami University since 1990 gave me the confidence to take chances in and out of the classroom. Shevaun Watson and Beth Avila taught me how to think about the relationship between history and literature . Kalie Wetovick worked hard in the summer of 2011 checking notes and compil- 336 / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ing the bibliography. The twenty-five undergraduates who joined me in the spring of 2011 in reading some late-eighteenth-century texts demonstrated the truth that teachers learn more from their students than the other way around. RebeccaWanzo, an undergraduate at Miami in the late 1990s who is now on the faculty at Washington University in Saint Louis, encouraged me in ways she would probably dispute, most crucially by asking me why I didn’t write in the same style in which I taught. Colleagues pay more attention to one another than we think we do. I was fortunate to know Michael O’Brien early in my career at Miami University; he taught me pretty much all I know about writing history that I hadn’t already learned from Jack Thomas as a graduate student at Brown University. My late colleague Jack Temple Kirby showed me it was possible to have eclectic scholarly interests and to age gracefully. I am lucky that Charlotte Newman Goldy, Steve Norris, Erik Jenson, and Amanda McVety share their love of fiction, theater, and film almost daily. I am even luckier that Amanda, a gifted stylist, enjoys talking about the craft of writing history . I have also learned much about reading literature from cris cheek, Fran Dolan, Sara First, Katharine Gillespie, Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, Matthew Gordon, Irene Kleiman,Tim Melley, Susan Morgan, Marj Nadler,Tatiana Seijas, Allan Winkler, and Gretchen Ziolkowski. In addition to being wonderful friends, Carla Gardina Pestana and Wietse de Boer are model scholars who regularly exceed the professional standards to which I aspire. Although they bear no responsibility for its final form, four people had a...

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