I have been posting on the religious dimensions of empire in American history, and I have stressed how the nation’s imperial expansion from earliest times must be seen in that imperial context. Over ...

Three books on early American history. Peter Mancall’s Contested Continent is a prodigious synthesis of recent scholarship on early American history. As Contested Continent demonstrates, historians ...

CU Adjunct Professor Peter H. Wood’s seminal 1974 book on race, rice and rebellion in Colonial America recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with an updated version If Peter H. Wood wants to stump ...