One of the most pressing questions among historians today is: Who was included and who was excluded in the promises of the American Revolution? This course will examine the recent historiography on the Revolutionary Era, broadly considered from the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 to the ratificati...
For more information, please also consult the guidance for current MA students in history or contact the director of the MA program Professor Stephen Robertson, srober30@gmu.edu. Who seeks an MA in history? Does one need a BA in history to seek an MA in history? What are the strengths of Mason...
Michael O'Malley is the author of Keeping Watch: A History of American Time; Face Value: the Entwined History of Race and Money in America, and The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music. Keeping Watch explores the transition from natural to mechanical sources for time, an...
Rosemarie Zagarri received her Ph.D. from Yale University and specializes in Early American history. She has published four books, the most recent of which is Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007; paperback, 2008). Her artic...
Finalists for the best paper from all sections of the capstone course, History 499: Senior Seminar during the previous calendar year. Theresa BoydDr. Gabrielle Tayac, fall 2022Canton Asylum: The "Resocialization" of Indigenous Women Michael DaughtryDr. George Oberle, fall 2022The Powhatan Pe...
Dr. Jessica Otis, Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University, has written a book titled, “By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England.” The book will be published by Oxford University Press in January 2024.Keith Wrightson, a historia...
When Dr. Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University's Department of History and Art History was conducting her research on 18th Century electoral politics for her first book, she never imagined that it would become urgently relevant to the preservation of democracy in 21st Century America. “My work...
