Books

• Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (1987) (ISBN 9780807841723)
• The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (1989) (ISBN 9780812212983)
• The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 (1972) (ISBN 9780813112695)
• The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U. S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from the Federalist Papers (2010) (ISBN 9780143118107)
• Patrick Henry: A Biography (1974) (ISBN 978-0070042803)
  • Finalist for the National Book Award
    National Book Award
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     for Biography
• Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (2010) (ISBN 9780812976847)
  • George Washington Book Prize
    George Washington Book Prize
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  • Literary Award of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
    Athenaeum of Philadelphia
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• The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (2004) (ISBN 9780807841723)

Future Books

• Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor: Americans Choose Independence (2011)

Articles

• "Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment", in The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin (Dilys P. Winegrad, ed., 1990) (ISBN 0812213262)
• "The Debate Over Ratification in Virginia", Proceedings of the Leon Jaworski Constitutional Institute (American Bar Association, 1993)
• "Deference, Republicanism and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth Century America", William and Mary Quarterly
  William and Mary Quarterly
  The William and Mary Quarterly is a quarterly history journal published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. It covers the history of colonial North America and the "Atlantic world" from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, including the Caribbean, West...
  
  , 3rd series (1993)
• "Republicanism and the First American Party System", in Parties and Politics in American History (L. Sandy Maisel, and William G. Shade, eds., 1994) (ISBN 0815316909)
• "Small Things Remembered: Writing The History of Everyday Life in Early America", American Quarterly
  American Quarterly
  American Quarterly is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association. The journal covers topics of both domestic and international concern in the United States and is considered a leading resource in the field of American studies. The current editor-in-chief is...
  
  , 42 (March 1990)
• "The Colonial Period of American History", in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (ISBN 978-1593398378)
• "The First American Party System", in the Encyclopaedia of Political Parties and Elections in the United States (L. Sandy Maisel, ed., 1991) (ISBN 978-0824079758)
• "Self-Evident Fictions: Divine Right, Popular Sovereignty, and the Myth of the Constituent Power in the Anglo-American World", University of Texas Law Review, 67 (June 1989)
• "The Revolutionary Character of the American Constitution", The Valley Forge Journal, III (1987)
• "The Democratic Faith of Patrick Henry", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 95 (1987)
• "Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution", in Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography (Merrill Petersen, ed., 1986) (ISBN 978-0684180694)
• "The Political Response to Social Conflict in the Southern Backcountry: A Comparative View of Virginia and the Carolinas During the Revolution", in An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry in the American Revolution (Ronald Hoffman and Thad Tate, eds., 1985) (ISBN 978-0813910512)
• "Cultural Conflict and Social Change in the Revolutionary South: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia", with Rhys Isaac, Journal of Southern History, XLVI (November 1980)
• "The Social Functions of the Law in Colonial America", Reviews in American History
  Reviews in American History
  Reviews in American History is an academic journal founded in 1973. Each issue presents substantive reviews of more than two-dozen new books on the topic of American history. It also features retrospectives on influential titles of the past...
  
  , X (1982)
• "A New Era in Female History", Reviews in American History, IX (September 1981)
• "Robert Munford and the Political Culture of Frontier Virginia", Journal of American Studies
  Journal of American Studies
  The Journal of American Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States. It includes a book review section. Though academic in nature, the journal is intended also for general readers with an...
  
  , XII (1978)
• "The New Social History and the Search for 'Community' in Early America", American Quarterly, XXIX (1977)
• "Social Change and Cultural Conflict in Virginia: Lunenburg County, 1746-1774", William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, XXXV (1978)
• "The Colonial Frontier", in America's Historylands (Daniel J. Boorstin
  Daniel J. Boorstin
  Daniel Joseph Boorstin was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.- Biography:...
  
  , ed., 1977) (ISBN 978-0870440038)
• "Trade and Travel in Post-Revolutionary Virginia: A Diary of an Itinerant Peddler", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 84 (1976)
• "Labor Forces and Race Relations: A Comparative View of the Colonization of Brazil and Virginia", Political Science Quarterly
  Political Science Quarterly
  Political Science Quarterly is an American scholarly journal covering government, politics and policy, published continuously since 1886 by the Academy of Political Science. It is the oldest political science journal in the United States....
  
  , LXXVI (1971)
• "Unlimited Debate in the Senate: The First Phase", Political Science Quarterly, LXXXIII (1968)

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar
  Fulbright Program
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• Harold Harmsworth Visiting Professorship of American History at Oxford University
  University of Oxford
  The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
  
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  National Endowment for the Humanities
  The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
  
  Senior Fellowship

External links

• Page at the University of Pennsylvania Department of History