Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Virginia Anderson has taught early American history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1985. She is author of New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1992) and Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004). She is also coauthor of the textbook The American Journey (1998; 5th ed., 2009). Her new book project, The Martyr and the Traitor: Taking Sides in the American Revolution, explores the personal as well as political transformations that shaped individual lives in unexpected ways as the Revolutionary crisis unfolded.

Lecture topics:

• Bringing Livestock into the History of Early America
• Nathan Hale: Sociability and Patriotism in the American Revolution
• The Ordeal of Moses Dunbar, Connecticut Loyalist

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