Kevin R C Gutzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin R C Gutzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin R C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gutzman |
| SIGNATURE | GUTZMAN K R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Connecticut State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adams and Calhoun
The Words that Made Us
John M. Murrin. Rethinking America
John M. Murrin’s former student Andrew Shankman notes in introducing this collection of some of Murrin’s influential essays that “none of the thirty-three essays [in The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (2012)] dealt with the ideological world recovered by Bailyn, Wood, and Pocock and that had played such a vital part in Murrin’s radical, imperial, Whig synthesis.” In fact, Murrin bemoans at more than one point in this book that scholar…
American Honor
Craig Bruce Smith's study of “honor, virtue, and ethics” in the era of the American Revolution is an attempt to show how those principles were democratized and nationalized circa 1776 and how they underlay the founding of the United States (p. 2). In chapters on colonial resistance and wartime ethics, he shows how they changed during the Revolution. Though seemingly intuitive, Smith's account falls upon difficulties. Omitting attention to the rel…
Robert L. Tsai. America’s Forgotten Constitutions
Journal Article Robert L. Tsai. America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community. Get access Robert L. Tsai. America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 352. $35.00. Kevin R. C. Gutzman Kevin R. C. Gutzman Western Connecticut State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series
The last months of 1813 and first half of 1814 saw the Madison presidency and the War of 1812 continue their downward trajectory. First the U.S. Army's ill-led efforts on the Canadian frontier ground to a halt, and then Napoleon I's unanticipated fall from power freed up Britain's enormous military resources to be focused on the American war—if the British wanted them to be. President James Madison held out hope that the sudden disappearance of t…
Accommodating Revolutions
Albert H. Tillson Jr.’s history of the Northern Neck of Virginia in the era of the American Revolution extends what is already known about the revolution to a particular portion of the Old Dominion that had not been chronicled before. Readers already familiar with the accounts given by Rhys Isaac, Woody Holton, Mechal Sobel, T. H. Breen, and the like will not find new theses but will find further validation of established ones. Tillson's chapters…
Virginia's American Revolution
Revolutionary and early national Virginians consistently insisted that the Old Dominion would be a self-governing entity. It would not be ruled by a distant oppressive regime in London or by a federal government located in New York, Philadelphia, or even Washington, D.C. In Virginia's American Revolution, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, an associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, also argues that Virginia's nineteenth-century …
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Journal Article James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights Get access James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. By Labunski Richard. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 336 pp. $28.00, isbn0-19-518105-0.) Kevin R. C. Gutzman Kevin R. C. Gutzman Western Connecticut State UniversityDanbury, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, …
Edmund Randolph and Virginia Constitutionalism
Scholars have long been under the impression that the doctrines enunciated in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 and the Virginia Report of 1800 originated with the authors of those documents, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Yet this article demonstrates that it was not either of those two future presidents who concocted what Andrew Jackson would dub “the Virginia Doctrine.” That distinction belongs to Governor Edmund Rand…
The Slaveholding Republic
This volume analyzes how the government of the United States effectively became an agent of the interest, despite the fact that the nation had been founded upon ideals potentially hostile to the institution of slavery. The anomaly of a slaveholding republic began to unravel with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first president not wholly obedient to that interest. Written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Don Fehrenbacher, this bo…
Straussians
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered
IN 1798, AFTER A DECADE OF POLITICAL DEFEATS, VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS faced gravest scenario contemplated in their ideology: federal government, no longer headed by a Virginian Cincinnatus who had proven himself willing to relinquish power, stood on a war footing. Despite what Republicans understood as nation's moral obligation, Federalists finally had taken sides in European wars in opposition to republican France. This decision had led them also t…
A Troublesome Legacy
The passing of generation of men who founded American republic was not a tranquil one. Growing agitation over sectional issues, which had arisen periodically since before Declaration of Independence, gradually made their achievement appear increasingly unstable. In 1836, as he lay dying, James Madison, last survivor among revolutionary statesmen, was especially gloomy. He therefore offered as Advice to My Country that the Union of States be cheri…
A Troublesome Legacy
The passing of generation of men who founded American republic was not a tranquil one. Growing agitation over sectional issues, which had arisen periodically since before Declaration of Independence, gradually made their achievement appear increasingly unstable. In 1836, as he lay dying, James Madison, last survivor among revolutionary statesmen, was especially gloomy. He therefore offered as Advice to My Country that the Union of States be cheri…
Virginia's American Revolution
Revolutionary and early national Virginians consistently insisted that the Old Dominion would be a self-governing entity. It would not be ruled by a distant oppressive regime in London or by a federal government located in New York, Philadelphia, or even Washington, D.C. In Virginia's American Revolution, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, an associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, also argues that Virginia's nineteenth-century …
The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series
The last months of 1813 and first half of 1814 saw the Madison presidency and the War of 1812 continue their downward trajectory. First the U.S. Army's ill-led efforts on the Canadian frontier ground to a halt, and then Napoleon I's unanticipated fall from power freed up Britain's enormous military resources to be focused on the American war—if the British wanted them to be. President James Madison held out hope that the sudden disappearance of t…
Edmund Randolph and Virginia Constitutionalism
Scholars have long been under the impression that the doctrines enunciated in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 and the Virginia Report of 1800 originated with the authors of those documents, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Yet this article demonstrates that it was not either of those two future presidents who concocted what Andrew Jackson would dub “the Virginia Doctrine.” That distinction belongs to Governor Edmund Rand…
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered
IN 1798, AFTER A DECADE OF POLITICAL DEFEATS, VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS faced gravest scenario contemplated in their ideology: federal government, no longer headed by a Virginian Cincinnatus who had proven himself willing to relinquish power, stood on a war footing. Despite what Republicans understood as nation's moral obligation, Federalists finally had taken sides in European wars in opposition to republican France. This decision had led them also t…
A Troublesome Legacy
The passing of generation of men who founded American republic was not a tranquil one. Growing agitation over sectional issues, which had arisen periodically since before Declaration of Independence, gradually made their achievement appear increasingly unstable. In 1836, as he lay dying, James Madison, last survivor among revolutionary statesmen, was especially gloomy. He therefore offered as Advice to My Country that the Union of States be cheri…
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Reconsidered
IN 1798, AFTER A DECADE OF POLITICAL DEFEATS, VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS faced gravest scenario contemplated in their ideology: federal government, no longer headed by a Virginian Cincinnatus who had proven himself willing to relinquish power, stood on a war footing. Despite what Republicans understood as nation's moral obligation, Federalists finally had taken sides in European wars in opposition to republican France. This decision had led them also t…
The Slaveholding Republic
This volume analyzes how the government of the United States effectively became an agent of the interest, despite the fact that the nation had been founded upon ideals potentially hostile to the institution of slavery. The anomaly of a slaveholding republic began to unravel with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first president not wholly obedient to that interest. Written by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Don Fehrenbacher, this bo…
Straussians
Edmund Randolph and Virginia Constitutionalism
Scholars have long been under the impression that the doctrines enunciated in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 and the Virginia Report of 1800 originated with the authors of those documents, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Yet this article demonstrates that it was not either of those two future presidents who concocted what Andrew Jackson would dub “the Virginia Doctrine.” That distinction belongs to Governor Edmund Rand…
James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights
Journal Article James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights Get access James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. By Labunski Richard. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 336 pp. $28.00, isbn0-19-518105-0.) Kevin R. C. Gutzman Kevin R. C. Gutzman Western Connecticut State UniversityDanbury, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, …
Virginia's American Revolution
Revolutionary and early national Virginians consistently insisted that the Old Dominion would be a self-governing entity. It would not be ruled by a distant oppressive regime in London or by a federal government located in New York, Philadelphia, or even Washington, D.C. In Virginia's American Revolution, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, an associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, also argues that Virginia's nineteenth-century …
Accommodating Revolutions
Albert H. Tillson Jr.’s history of the Northern Neck of Virginia in the era of the American Revolution extends what is already known about the revolution to a particular portion of the Old Dominion that had not been chronicled before. Readers already familiar with the accounts given by Rhys Isaac, Woody Holton, Mechal Sobel, T. H. Breen, and the like will not find new theses but will find further validation of established ones. Tillson's chapters…
The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series
The last months of 1813 and first half of 1814 saw the Madison presidency and the War of 1812 continue their downward trajectory. First the U.S. Army's ill-led efforts on the Canadian frontier ground to a halt, and then Napoleon I's unanticipated fall from power freed up Britain's enormous military resources to be focused on the American war—if the British wanted them to be. President James Madison held out hope that the sudden disappearance of t…
Robert L. Tsai. America’s Forgotten Constitutions
Journal Article Robert L. Tsai. America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community. Get access Robert L. Tsai. America’s Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. viii, 352. $35.00. Kevin R. C. Gutzman Kevin R. C. Gutzman Western Connecticut State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
John M. Murrin. Rethinking America
John M. Murrin’s former student Andrew Shankman notes in introducing this collection of some of Murrin’s influential essays that “none of the thirty-three essays [in The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (2012)] dealt with the ideological world recovered by Bailyn, Wood, and Pocock and that had played such a vital part in Murrin’s radical, imperial, Whig synthesis.” In fact, Murrin bemoans at more than one point in this book that scholar…
American Honor
Craig Bruce Smith's study of “honor, virtue, and ethics” in the era of the American Revolution is an attempt to show how those principles were democratized and nationalized circa 1776 and how they underlay the founding of the United States (p. 2). In chapters on colonial resistance and wartime ethics, he shows how they changed during the Revolution. Though seemingly intuitive, Smith's account falls upon difficulties. Omitting attention to the rel…
The Words that Made Us
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