Hotchkis Professor Emeritus
Education
BA, University of Washington
PhD, Yale University
Representative Publications
Washington’s Revolution: The Making of America’s First Leader (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015).
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; paperback ed., 1998).
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, paperback ed., 1986).
The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) reprinted in paperback (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteenth-Century New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
