Through the nineteenth century, Britain experienced an extended period of naval anxiety. At the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the nation was secure in its position as the preeminent naval power in Europe, having concluded nearly a century’s series of French wars, and having specifically...
Baptists are often construed as a regionally based denomination, demarcated between Northern and Southern sects that adhere to disparate ideologies and theological principles. Baptist historiography and its often distinct regional focus helped develop this image. Baptist historical literature...
Recently, there has been an influx of scholarship that primarily focuses on the economic motivations and/or effects of privateering. In this way, privateers become exceedingly one-dimensional characters in American history. This thesis attempts to present privateers in a new light by highlighting...
This thesis will be a comparative study of the nonimportation agreements of three colonies: Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia. It will detail how proponents of nonimportation in the various colonies went about enforcing and advocating for the temporary cessation of the importation of British...
"Unthinkable" Resistance: The Work of Phillis Wheatley and the Discourse of "Race" in Late Eighteenth Century America Though much has been written about Phillis Wheatley's life and works, the balance of Wheatley scholarship has submerged her in historiographical context rather than treat...