Edward Countryman won the Bancroft Prize for A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 (1981). He also has written The American Revolution (1985, revised edition in progress) and Americans: A Collision of Histories (1996). His teaching interest in film studies led to Shane (1999), with Evonne Von Heussen Countryman. He has taught in New Zealand and Britain and is now University Distinguished Professor in the Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University.

Lecture topics:

• Getting to Know George Washington
• Paying the Price for America's Rising Glory
• The Price of Cotton: Mississippi in 1850
• Booting Up The Empire State: New York, 1776-1825
• The Continental Turn and the Origins of the American Revolution
  
• Black Americans and the Era of Independence

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