C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
As part of its mission to engage as wide an audience as possible, both academic and non-academic, and to uphold the literary craft of the historian, the Center’s staff and visiting fellows are actively engaged in research and writing about American history.
In the years since its founding, publications originating at the Starr Center have
included several books on the American experience as well as dozens of articles in
such publications as The New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, National Geographic, The American Scholar, American Heritage, Smithsonian, and many others.
The following are some selected works that have been published by the Starr Center’s staff and fellows during the past few years.
Books:
-
Tigerland, 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of
Healing (Alfred. A Knopf, 2018) by 2017-2018 Patrick Henry Fellow Wil Haygood
-
The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin’s House (Ballantine, 2017) by 2013-2014 Patrick Henry Fellow Daniel Mark Epstein.
-
Crane Pond: A Novel of Salem (Europa, 2016) by 2013-2014 Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library fellow Richard
Francis.
-
One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History (Little, Brown and Company, 2015) by 2011- 2012 Patrick Henry Writing Fellow Peter
Manseau.
-
Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America, (Simon & Schuster, 2015) by 2010 Hodson-Brown Fellow David O. Stewart
-
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act (Bloomsbury Press, 2014) by 2013 Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellow Clay Risen.
-
The New York Times: Disunion (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2013) edited by former Starr Center Director Ted
Widmer.
-
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) by 2008-2009 Patrick Henry Writing Fellow Henry
Wiencek.
-
1861: The Civil War Awakening (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011) by Starr Center Director Adam GoodheartNew York Times Bestseller! -
Betsy Ross and the Making of America (Henry Holt and Co., 2010) by 2009-2010 Patrick Henry Writing Fellow Marla Miller
-
Voices of the Chesapeake Bay (Geared Up Publications, 2008; Schiffer Books, 2012) by Starr Center Program Manager
& Oral History Manager Michael Buckley
-
The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke (Doubleday, 2018) by 2016-2017 Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library fellow Andrew
Lawler.
-
The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) by former Starr Center student fellow John R. Bohrer ’06.
-
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Chicago Review Press, 2017) by 2010-2011 Patrick Henry Fellow Ned Sublette.
-
To Swear like a Sailor: Maritime Culture in America, 1750-1850 (Cambridge, 2014) by 2008 Starr Center fellow Paul Gilje.
-
Family Bonds: Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) by former Starr Center Deputy Director
Ted Maris-Wolf.
-
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton & Co., 2014) by 2012 Frederick Douglass Fellow Alan TaylorWinner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History! -
Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence 1774-1776 (Basic Books, 2013) by Starr Center Senior Fellow Richard Beeman
-
Brown’s Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) by former Starr Center Associate Director
Jill Ogline Titus.
-
American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America (Simon & Schuster, 2011) by 2010 Hodson-Brown Fellow David O. Stewart
-
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (Random House, 2009) by Starr Center Senior Fellow Richard BeemanWinner of the 2010 George Washington Book Prize!