Seth Cotlar
Professor
History
Willamette University
United States of America
Biography
Professor Cotlar specializes in the history of the United States in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. His first book - Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Trans-Atlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic - won the Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He is currently working on a new book project, a cultural history of nostalgia in modernizing America, 1776-1865. He recieved B. A. from Brown University and Ph. D. from Northwestern University.
Research Interest
Historiography, History of American Radicalism, The Abolition of Slavery
Publications
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Cotlar S. Joseph Gales and the Making of the Jeffersonian Middle Class. 2002.
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Cotlar S. The View from Mount Vernon versus the People Out of Doors: Context and Conflict in the Ratification Debates. The William and Mary Quarterly. 2012 Apr 1;69(2):369-72.
