Curriculum Vitae
Herbert Sloan
Ann Whitney Olin Professor
of
History
Barnard College
 

University Education:
Ph.D. (1988), M. Phil. (1978), M.A. (1977) --Columbia University
J.D. (1972) -- University of Michigan
A.B. (1969) -- Stanford University

Publications:

Book Publications:
Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995; paperback edition,
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001)..
"The Fall and Rise of Nancy Randolph," work in progress, c.550 pp.

Journal Publications:

Articles:

"Presidents as Historians" in Richard A. Ryerson, ed., John Adams and the Founding of the Republic (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001), 266-83.

"Hamilton's Second Thoughts: Federalist Finance Revisited," in Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg, eds., Federalists Reconsidered (Charlottesville, Va., and London: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 61-76.

"A History of One's Own," Barnard (summer, 1996), 12-13.

"The Rights of the Living Generation: Jefferson and the Public Debt,"  Philosophy and Public Policy, 13 (1993), 19-23.

"The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living,'" in Peter S. Onuf, ed., Jeffersonian Legacies (Charlottesville, Va., and London: University Press of Virginia, 1993), 281-315.

"Politics, Culture, and the Revolution in Virginia: A Review of Recent Work" (with Peter Onuf), Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 91(1983), 259-84.

Reviews:

Review of Stephen F. Knott, Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth (Lawrence, Ks.: University of Kansas Press, 2002), Political Science Quarterly, 117 (2002-03), 669-70.      

Review of CD-Rom edition of Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders'Constitution, 5 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), in Common-Place [www.common_place.org](July 2002).

Review of David McCullough, John Adams (New York, Simon and Schuster, 2001), Newark Star Ledger, 3 June 2001. 

Review of Stuart Banner, Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political Roots, 1690-1860 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
1998), William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., LVII (2000), 445-48.

Review of Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlottesville, Va., and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997), Indiana Magazine of History, March 1998, 61-62.

Review of Joseph E. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997).  Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, 105 (1997), 350-51.

Review of Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (New York: Henry Holt, 1996),Political Science Quarterly, 112 (1997), 526.

Review of Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (Armonk, N.Y.: E. M. Sharp, 1995). Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography, 104 (1996), 404-05.   

"Searching for the Elusive Inner Jefferson," review of Andrew Burstein, The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist (Charlottesville, Va., and London: University Press of Virginia, 1995).  Washington Times, Books, Fall University Press Books Issue, 29 October 1995, p. B10.

"Long Paper Trail of Two Founders," review of James Morton Smith, ed., The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison, 1776-1826, 3 vols. (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1994).  Washington Times, 19 February 1995, Books, p. B8.  Reprinted as "Two Thousand Pages Prove That Genius Can Be Dull." Insight, 27 Mar. 1995, p.29.

Review of James Roger Sharp, American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1993)Political Science Quarterly, 109 (1994), 386-87. 

Review of Harvey Mansfield, Jr., America's Constitutional Soul (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press,1991).  Political Science
Quarterly, 107 (1992-93), 571-72.    

Review of David Richards, Foundations of American Constitutionalism (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).  Political Science
Quarterly, 105 (1990-91), 672-73.

Review of Marc Egnal, A Mighty Empire: The Origins of The American Revolution (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1988).  Business History
Review, 63 (1989), 942-43.

Review of Leonard Levy, Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution (New York and London: Macmillan, 1988).  Journal of the Early Republic, 9 (1989), 387-88.

Review of Jack McLaughlin, Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder (New York: Henry Holt, 1989).  Journal of the Early Republic, 9 (1989),
564-65.

Review of Brent Tarter, ed., Revolutionary Virginia: The Road to Independence, VII (Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1983).  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 92 (1984), 352-53.
 
Contributions to Reference Works:

"Julian Parks Boyd," in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999),

"George Washington," in Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer, eds., The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 7-22.

Conferences, Papers, Appearances:

Scholarly Venues:

Chair, panel on "Defending One's Manhood at Sea and at Home: The Struggles of Seafarers in Antebellum America," Organization Of American Historians, San Francisco, CA, March 2005 [scheduled]

Chair, panel on "The Problem of Slavery in the Early American Republic," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Providence, RI, July 2004

Comment on paper by Joanne Freeman, "Alexander Hamilton's Sense Of Humor," Conference on "Leadership in the Early Republic: Reassessing George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton," Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., April 2004

"John Randolph in St. Petersburg," St. Petersburg through American Eyes conference, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, November 2003

Comment, papers by Paul Cheney and Alan Potofsky, Conference on "The Atlantic Economy in the Era of the Eighteenth-Century Revolutions," Program in Early American Economy and Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, November 2003

Chair and Comment, panel on "National Choices, Local Voices: Identity, Interest, and Initiative in the Early U.S.," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Columbus, OH, July 2003

Chair, panel on "Shipwrecks, Violence and Profanity: Gender in the American Maritime World in the Age of Sail, 1750-1850," Organization of American Historians, Memphis, TN, April 2003.

"The Bankruptcy of Thomas Jefferson Reconsidered," Columbia University Seminar on Early American History, New York, February 2002.

Chair and Comment, papers by Leonard Sadowsky and James Lewis, Jr., panel on "Diplomacy and Disguise," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2001.

Comment on papers by Francis D. Cogliano, Paul Gilje, and Sarah Purcell, panel on "American Maritime Culture during the Revolution and Early Republic," Seventh Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2001.

Chair and comment on papers by Laura-Eve Moss and Gregory Edwards, panel on "New York, New York," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic,Buffalo, New York, July 2000.

Comment on papers by Susan Branson, Todd Estes, and Andrew Shankman, panel on "Money, Gender, and Power: Perspectives on Political Culture in the 1790s," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Lexington, Kentucky, July 1999.

Invited Participant, The First American Census in Methodological Perspective, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., November 1998.

Panelist, The Age of Federalism, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick: An Early Appraisal, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamstown, Mass., September 1998.

Panelist, Roundtable on Thomas Jefferson and American Civic Culture, Organization of American Historians, Indianapolis, Ind., April 1998.

Discussant for Mlada Bukovansky, "American Identity and Neutral Rights from Independence to the War of 1812," Mellon International Relations Theory-Diplomatic History Workshop, Columbia University, New York, November 1997.

Comment on papers by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg,panel on "From Sentiment to Seduction: The Language of Law and Affection," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, University Park, Pa., July, 1997.

"Introduction" (to The Fall and Rise of Nancy Randolph), Willan Social Science Seminar, Barnard College, New York, March 1997.

"Presidents as Historians: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson," Conference on John Adams and the Founding of the Republic, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, September 1996.

"The Apologia of Nancy Randolph," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Cincinnati, July 1995.

Panelist,Roundtable Discussion, "Federalists Reconsidered," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Cincinnati, July 1995.

Panelist,"Recent Jefferson Scholarship," Conference of Jefferson Scholars, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Va., June 1995.

Chair, Panel on "Politics, Political Economy, and History from the Bottom Up: The 1790s in the 1990s," First Annual Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1995.

"Nancy Randolph's Apology," Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, New York, May 1995.

"Nancy Randolph's Apology," Willan Social Science Seminar, Barnard College, New York, April 1995.

Chair, panel on "Political Leadership in the New Republic: The Strange Cases of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Boston, July 1994.

Comment, panel on "Foreign Policy and Political Economy in the Early Republic," American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 1994.

"The Search for a Usable Past: Thomas Jefferson as Autobiographer," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Chapel Hill, N.C., July 1993

"`The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living,'" Jeffersonian Legacies Conference, Charlottesville, Va., October 1992; video appearance in "Thomas Jefferson: Complex Legacy" (1993), Central Virginia Public Television's documentary drawn from the Legacies Conference.

"Doubting Thomas: Historians and Jefferson," Columbia University Seminar on Early American History and Culture, New York, December 1991.

"`Another Damned, Thick, Square Book': Historians and the Documentary Edition," Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Madison, Wisc., July 1991.

"Liberal or Republican? Many Jeffersons," Barnard Faculty Social Science Seminar, New York, April 1991.

"`The Earth Belongs to the Living': Jefferson, Constitutionalism, and the French Revolution," American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 1989.

"Jefferson's Farewell to Paris," Barnard Celebrates the French Revolution, New York, November 1989.

Chair, panel on "The Changing Character of the American Enlightenment," Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Worcester, Mass., October 1989.

Comment on Papers by John Kaminski and Donald Lutz, Bill of Rights Session, American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1989.

"Debt and the Reconstruction of Virginia Politics," Colonial Chesapeake Conference, Baltimore, April 1983.

General Audiences:

Thomas Jefferson and the Presidency, 17th annual Thomas Jefferson Symposium, University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, June 2004.

"Real Men Don't Buy Brocade: Some Thoughts on Jefferson as Consumer," 20th annual Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson Lecture, William Paterson University,Wayne, NJ, May 2004.

"The Constitution," American Social History Project Historians and Teachers Program, day-long workshop with Region 7 High School and Middle School teachers, Staten Island, New York, March 2004.

"Ends and Beginnings," Honors Assembly lecture, Barnard College, New York, May 2003.

"The Constitution Historically Considered," Gilder- Lehrman workshop for secondary school history teachers, Barnard College, New York, March 2003.

"'The Federalist' in Context," lecture to staff of Contemporary Civilization program, Columbia College, New York, February 2003.

"Alexander Hamilton's Dream--And Why It Failed," Fourth Annual Alexander Hamilton Lecture, Hamilton Society, Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York, April 2002

"Why Jefferson Died a Bankrupt," Staff Development Day, Social Studies Department, John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, New York, January 2002.

"Monticello after DNA: Reflections on a Controversy," Athena Society, Barnard College, New York, March 2001.

"The Fourteenth Amendment and the Million Youth March," STEP Program, Barnard College, New York, January 2000.

"Jefferson's Ideological Obsessions and Political Opposition," "The Problem of Generational Sovereignty," and "Closing Panel," Thomas Jefferson in France, University of Virginia 1999 Jefferson Symposium, Charlottesville, Va., June 1999.

"A Life Sentence," winter Transfer Students' Dinner, Barnard College, New York, January 1999.

Panelist, ABC Nightline discussion of Alexander Hamilton, aired 15 January 1999.

"A Few Good Books," fall Phi Beta Kappa initiation, Barnard College, New York, December 1997.

"Scholars and the Web," Barnard Library, Barnard College, New York, December 1997.

"The Return of Narrative: The Fall and Rise of Nancy Randolph," Associate Alumnae of Barnard College, Virginia Branch, Charlottesville, Va., October 1997.

Panelist, Atlantic Monthly "Post & Riposte" Forum on "(Re)Claiming Jefferson" (electronic discussion; http://www.theatlantic.com/atlweb/prauth/jeffer/ jeffer.htm), 12-26 March 1997.

"Ken Burns's Thomas Jefferson--and Mine," Lifelong Learners enrichment series, Division of Continuing Education, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, February 1997.

Panelist, "The Jefferson Debate: A Local Follow-up" [to broadcast of "Thomas Jefferson, A Film by Ken Burns"], WCVE, Central Virginia Public Broadcasting, Richmond, Va., February 1997.

"The Financial World of Thomas Jefferson," Evening Conversations Series, Monticello, Va., July 1996. [Video broadcast on C-Span 2, 18 August 1996, and subsequent dates.]

Panelist, Discussion of "The Contract and the Country: Politics and Policies, 1996," Barnard Alumnae Reunion,New York, May 1996.

Panelist, Discussion of "Sally and Tom (The American Way)," Castillo Theatre, New York, December 1995.

"Jefferson and His Debts," lecture to Monticello Guides, Visitors Center, Monticello, Va., June 1995

Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford Campbell Moot Court Prize, University of Michigan Law School Sons of the American Revolution Essay Prize for Master's Essay, Columbia Gladys Brooks Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, Barnard Emily Gregory Award for Teaching Excellence, Barnard

Teaching Experience:

Instructor in History, Columbia University, summer 1979 Taught survey of American History to 1865

Preceptor, Columbia College, 1979-1982 Taught Contemporary Civilization

Adjunct Instructor in History, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1983-1986 Taught Survey of American History to 1865, Survey of American History Since 1865

Visiting Instructor in History, 1986-1988, Assistant Professor of History, 1988-96, Associate Professor of History, 1996-2000, Professor of History,2000- , Ann Whitney Olin Professor, 2003- , Barnard College

Taught lecture courses on American Constitutional History, Survey of American Civilization to 1865, The Era of Independence in the Americas, and War and Society in America; undergraduate seminars on the Origins of the Constitution, the XIV Amend- ment, Plantation Societies in British America, American Autobiographies, and Introduction to Contemporary Historical Theory and Method; First-Year Seminars on Revolution and on Equality; First-Year Seminar Reacting to the Past.

Graduate Courses at Columbia:

The American Revolution [colloquium] (fall, 1996; spring, 2001). Politics, Culture, and Society in Eighteenth-Century America [colloquium] (fall, 1997; fall, 2001).

College Service:

First-Year Seminar, 1988-2001, 2003- Class Advising, 1989-91, 1992-97, 1998-2001, 2003- Committee on Programs and Academic Standing, 1989-91 Faculty Dining Room/Amenities Committee, 1990-91 Middle States Review Self-Study Subcommittee on Advising, 1990 First-Year English Oversight Committee, 1991-92 Judiciary Committee, 1992-94 Medalist Committee, 1992-95 Advisory Board, Barnard Center for Research on Women, 1993-96, 1997- Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard Section, Columbia University, Treasurer, 1993-94, Secretary, 1994-95, Vice-President, 1995-96, President, 1996-97 Senior Commencement Committee, 1994-96 Academic Computing [BLAIS] Committee, 1994-2001 Director of Security and Safety Advisory Committee, 1995 History-Political Science Space Committee, 1995-96 President's Ad Hoc Committee on Capital Facilities Planning, 1995-96 Office of Disability Services Review Committee, 1996-97 Faculty Planning Committee, 1996-2001 Chair, Twentieth-Century American Search Committee, History Department, 1996-97 First-Year Seminar Oversight Committee, 1997- Director of Security and Safety Advisory Committee, 1997

Director, First-Year Seminar Program, 1998-2001, 2003- President's Faculty Advisory Committee, 1998-2001 Barnard Center for Research on Women Director Search, 1998-99 Middle States Review Committee, 1998-2001 Co-chair, First-Year Foundations Committee, 1999- German History Search Committee, 2002-2003 Latin American History Search Committee, 2003- Editorial Board, The Scholar & Feminist Online, 2003- Committee on Instruction, 2003-

University Service:

Dissertation Defenses:

Jessica Stillman Edelman Young, "Rocking the Cradle: The First Generation of 19th Century American Career Women," 1988.

Jack Chatfield, "`Already We Are a Fallen Country': The Politics and Ideology of Connecticut Federalism,1797-1812," 1988.

David Mattern, "A Moderate Revolutionary: The Life of Major General Benjamin Lincoln," 1990.

Doron Ben-Atar, "Courting Disaster: The Origins of Jeffersonian Commercial Policy, Diplomacy, and Discourse," 1990.

Deborah Rosen, "Courts and Commerce: The Formative Period of Legal Practice in New York, 1690-1760," 1990.

Alison Duncan Hirsch, "`Instructions from a Woman':Hannah Penn and the Pennsylvania Proprietorship," 1991.

Midori Takagi, "Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782- 1865," 1993.

Alan Damon, "Benjamin Lincoln: A Life," 1994.

Karen Robbins, "James McHenry: His American Experience," 1994.

David Robarge, "John Marshall and His Time: A Virginia Lawyer and Southern Federalist in the Early Republic, 1750-1801," 1994.

Evan William Cornog, "The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828," 1995.

Shawn William Miller, "Brazil's Colonial Timber: Conservation, Monopoly and the Accumulation of Colonial Wealth, 1652-1822," 1996.

Benjamin Mutschler, "The Province of Affliction: Illness in New England, 1690-1820," 2000.

John Peter Nathaniel Austin, "The Literary Compilation in America: 1820-1850," [Department of English and Comparative Literature], 2000.

Robert Battistini, "At the Limits of Englightenment: Imaginative Prose in the Early Republic"[Department of English and Comparative Literature], 2001.

Rose Razaghian, "Establishing Financial Credibility in the United States, 1789-1860" [Department of Political Science], 2002.

Lisa Anne Whitney, "`Grace in which a man may swimme': The Rhetoric of Motion in the Sermons of John Cotton" [Department of English and Comparative Literature], 2002.

Kenryu Hashikawa, "Rural Entrepreneurship in New Jersey during the Early Republic," 2002.

Rohit T. Aggarwala, "Seat of Empire: New York, Philadelphia, and the Emergence of an American Metropolis, 1776-1837," 2002.

James Delbourgo, "Electricity, Experiment and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century America," 2002.

Thea K. Hunter, "Publishing Freedom, Winning Arguments: Somerset, Natural Rights and Massachusetts Freedom Cases 1772-1836," 2003.

Kristin Reade Wilcox, "Print and Gender: British and American Women Writers, 1770 to 1820" [Department of English and Comparative Literature], 2003.

Ashli White, "'A Flood of Impure Lava': Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791- 1820," 2003.

Matthew Taylor Raffety, "The Republic Afloat: Violence, Labor, Manhood, and the Law at Sea, 1789-1861," 2003.

Matthew Rebhorn, "Pioneering Performances: Staging the Frontier, 1829-1893" [Department of English and Comparative Literature], 2004.

Prospectus Defenses:

Benjamin Mutschler, "Cultures of Sickness, Cultures Of Health: Illness in New England, 1690-1820," 1996.

Eric Wakin, "The Gun in New York City: From Dueling to Civil War to Gangland," 1997.

Poth Andrew McStay, Jr., "Useful Knowledge," 1999.

Thea K. Hunter, "Publishing Freedom, Winning Arguments: Somerset, Natural Rights, and Massachusetts Freedom Cases, 1772-1836," 1999.

James Delbourgo, "Political Electricity: Experimentalism, Enthusiasm and Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World," 2000.

Matthew Taylor Raffety, "Democracy Afloat: Labor, Gender, and Ideology in Mutinies on American Vessels, 1815-1861," 2000.

Oral Examinations (Early American field):

Patricia Bilfauld, 1995

Itai Sneh, 1996

Michelle Morgan, 1996

Kevin Smead, 1996

Thomas Woods, 1996

Thorin Tritter, 1996

Erica Armstrong, 1997

Christopher Nicholson, 1997

Thomas Cangiano, 1997

Johanna Fernandez-Pena, 1997

Zachary Schrag, 1999

Mio Matsumoto, 2000

Martin Kenner, 2000

Jacob Appel, 2000

Nishani Frazier, 2000

Jennifer Tammi, 2001

Jennifer Fronc, 2001

Shannon Clark, 2001

Aline Voldoire, 2001

Monica Gisolfi, 2002

James Downs, 2002

Kareen Williams, 2002

James Tejani, 2003

Timothy White, 2003

Daniel Freund, 2003

Eduardo Canedo, 2004

Edward Wilkinson, 2004

Theresa Ventura, 2004

Jeremy Derfner, 2004

Kevin Murphy, 2004

Joshua Wolf, 2004

Linda Tvrdy, 2004

Susan James [2004-5]

Benjamin Soskis [2004-5]

Jeff Decker [2004-5]

Jason Petrulis [2004-5]

Gregory Baggett [2004-5]

Rachel Tamar Van [2004-5]

Courtney Fullilove [2004-05]

Elizabeth Pillsbury [2004-5]

Neil Young [2004-5]

Horace Grant [2004-5]

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies theses supervised (School of General Studies):

Beth Goodman, "The Fatherhood of Thomas Jefferson: Reading Between the Lines," 1996

Michael Wainston, "Carl Brent Swisher: The Development of an American Constitutional Scholar," 1998

Philip Romm, "Original Meaning of High Crimes and Misdemeanors," 1999

Executive Committee, University Seminar on Early American History and Culture, 1989- ; Program Chair, 1994-95; Acting Chair, 1996-97, 1999-

Papers of John Jay Advisory Committee, 1996- ; Search committee, editor, 2004-

Member, search committee, Senior Early Americanist position, History Department, 2000-

Judge, Philolexian Society Fifteenth Annual Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest, 2000

Juror, Bancroft Prize Committee, 2001-02

Professional Service:

External member, Institute of Early American History and Culture Fellowship Committee, 1996-1997

National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Learning proposal reviewer, 1997, 1998, 2000

Executive Committee, Advisory Board, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1999-

Educational Testing Service, SAT II: United States History Subject Test Committee, member, 2000-2005

Member, Program Committee, Society for Historians of The Early American Republic annual meeting, Berkeley, Cal., July 2002, annual meeting, Columbus, Ohio, July 2003, chair, annual meeting, Providence, R.I., July 2004.

Member, Advisory Committee, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2003- ; member, Mission Statement committee, 2003; member, advisory board, SHEAR/ Mellon Fellowship Program, 2004-

Member, Advisory Board, American Revolution Educational New Media Project, New-York Historical Society, 2003-

Member, Visiting Committee, The Papers of George Washington and The Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia, January 2004

Member, Advisory Board, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, Virginia, 2004-

Manuscript reviews for journals: Journal of the Early Republic; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; William and Mary Quarterly; Journal of Southern History; Eighteenth Century Studies

Manuscript reviews for publishers and public history consulting: Gallin House Press(series on the Bill of Rights for adolescents); Curriculum Concepts (elementary school American history textbook); University Press of Virginia; Blackwells; Yale University Press; Cambridge University Press; E. M. Sharpe; Cornell University Press; Worth Publishers (college American history textbook); Bedford Books; Houghton Mifflin (college colonial American history textbook); Kids Discover(George Washington issue); "Frontline"(consultant for teacher's guide to "Jefferson's Blood"); Columbia University Press; Oxford University Press

Areas of Teaching Competence: American colonial and revolutionary history; early national history; American legal and constitutional history; history of political thought

Reviews of Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995; paperback reprint, Charlottesville, Va., and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001)

Joseph E. Ellis, "Money and That Man from Monticello," Reviews in American History, 23 (Dec., 1995): 588-92.

F. Petrella, Choice (May, 1996): 1527-28.

Gene A. Smith, Journal of the Early Republic, 16 (1996): 318-19.

Ronald Hatzenbuehler, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 104 (1996): 406-07.

Douglas E. French, The Freeman, 46 (1996): 710-11.

Norman K. Risjord, The Journal of American History, 83 (1996): 980-81.

Richard B. Latner, The American Historical Review, 102 (1997): 883-84.

Richard R. John, The Journal of Economic History, 57 (1997): 561-62.

Cathy Matson, The William and Mary Quarterly, 54 (1997): 669-71.

R. J. Saulnier, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 27 (1997), 603-04.