Denver Brunsman
Denver Brunsman
Associate Professor
Early American Republic, British Atlantic World
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Denver Brunsman writes on the politics and social history of the American Revolution, early American republic, and British Atlantic world. His courses include “George Washington and His World,” taught annually at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. His book, The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (University of Virginia Press, 2013), received the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies in the Americas and Atlantic world. His honors include the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence and induction into the George Washington University Academy of Distinguished Teachers as well as research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Newberry Library, Chicago; the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan; the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania; and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.
- Britain
- Colonial and Revolutionary America
- Early Modern World
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Military History
HIST 1310: Introduction to American History
HIST 2305: Majors Introductory Seminar in the United States
HIST 3303: Revolutionary America
HIST 3304: George Washington and His World
HIST 6001: Graduate Seminar in the British Atlantic World
HIST 6303: Graduate Seminar in Revolutionary America
Books
George Washington and the Establishment of the Federal Government (Bedford Document Collections e-book). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2020.
Co-author, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (enhanced 7th edition). Boston: Cengage, 2020.
Co-author, Leading Change: George Washington and Establishing the Presidency George Washington’s Mount Vernon for iTunes, 2017.
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. Walker Cowen Memorial Prize, University of Virginia Press; Honorable Mention, John Lyman Book Award (“U.S. Maritime History”), North American Society for Oceanic History.
Co-editor, The American Revolution Reader. New York: Routledge, 2013.
Co-editor, Border Crossings: The Detroit River Region in the War of 1812. Detroit: Detroit Historical Society, 2012. State History Book Award, Historical Society of Michigan; Leadership in History Award, American Association for State and Local History.
Co-editor, Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development (6th edition). New York: Routledge, 2011.
Co-editor, Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805. Detroit: Detroit Historical Society, 2009.
Articles
“Pirates vs. Press Gangs: The Battle for the Atlantic.” História (São Paulo) 38 (Jan. 2019): 1-16.
“‘Executioners of Their Friends and Brethren’: Naval Impressment as an Atlantic Civil War.” In The American Revolution Reborn, edited by Patrick K. Spero and Michael W. Zuckerman, 82-104. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
“De-Anglicization: The Jeffersonian Attack on an American Naval Establishment.” In Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic, edited by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. Silverman, 205-25. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
“James Madison and the National Gazette Essays: The Birth of a Party Politician.” In A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, edited by Stuart Leibiger. Malden, MA.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
“Subjects vs. Citizens: Impressment and Identity in the Anglo-American Atlantic.” Journal of the Early Republic 30 (Winter 2010): 557-86.
“Men of War: British Sailors and the Impressment Paradox.” Journal of Early Modern History 14 (Spring 2010): 9-44.
“The Knowles Atlantic Impressment Riots of the 1740s.” Early American Studies 5 (Fall 2007): 324-66.
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2004