OAH Distinguished Lecturer Profile
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 ed 2003), Americans: A Collision of Histories (1996), and, most recently, Enjoy the Same Liberty: African Americans and the Era of the American Revolution (2011). 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 a University Distinguished Professor in the Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University.
How to understand Washington's take on the history he was making, including an entirely fresh reading of his infatuation with Joseph Addison's play Cato, which many scholars have cited but few, apparently, have actually read.
