David Waldstreicher

Biographic Data

ID550400
NAMEDavid Waldstreicher
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEWaldstreicher
SIGNATUREWALDSTREICHER D
AFFILIATIONSBennington College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS38
TOTAL CITATIONS53
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution by Timothy Messer-Kruse (review)

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2025

  • Democracy in Darkness

    Open AccessDavid WaldstreicherARTICLEThe English Historical Review2025

  • Madison's Militia

    Open AccessDavid WaldstreicherARTICLEJournal of American History2024

  • Reinventing the Wheel of Early U.S. Nationalism

    Open AccessDavid WaldstreicherARTICLEDiplomatic History2020

    Like many studies of hoary, controversial, and yet difficult-to-define subjects, monographs on U.S. nationalism tend to scoff at, condescend to, or even ignore earlier approaches—even, perhaps especially, the ones most similar to their own. Wittingly or not, historians often echo the nationalists themselves in claiming to have begun the world anew and set themselves apart from Europe, from theory, and/or from their musty forebears of every mistak…

  • Benjamin E. Park. American Nationalisms

    Open AccessDavid WaldstreicherARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Fifty-seven years ago in the pages of this journal, David M. Potter tried to clear up confusion by analyzing how sectionalism and nationalism could work together, for example in the coming of the Civil War (“The Historian’s Use of Nationalism and Vice Versa,” AHR 67, no. 4 [July 1962]: 924–950). In a 2001 article, Andrew W. Robertson posited a dialectic of partisan nationalisms with international reference points (“‘Look on This Picture . . . And…

  • Rites of Rebellion, Rites of Assent

    David WaldstreicherCHAPTERColonial America and the Early…2017

    During the past decade a great change has occurred in the way American historians see parades and other celebratory rituals. No longer do parades merely provide seductive introductory vignettes and grace the dust jackets of community studies: what had been a window is now at the center of the frame. Despite all the recent attention to public ritual and performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the role of celebratory activities in th…

  • Gold Braid and Foreign Relations

    David WaldstreicherDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017

    This is a unique study of the officer diplomats of the Old Navy that covers 500 cases over an 85-year period, ending with Commodore Robert W. Schufeldt and the negotiation of America's first treaty with Korea

  • Revolution in the Quarterly? A Historiographical Analysis

    Michael A Mcdonnell, David Waldstreicher et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2017

    Interpretive patterns in the scholarship on the American Revolution have been less linear and dual than tripartite and cyclical, spiraling through whig, progressive, imperial, neo-whig, neo-progressive, and, most recently, neo-imperial alternatives. As the Quarterly relaunched in 1944, a transition in the cycle was already under way, from an imperial- and progressive-school détente to a neo-whig ascendancy, even as calls for synthesis abounded: e…

  • Reading the Runaways

    David WaldstreicherARTICLE2017Cited by: 37

    David Waldstreicher, Reading the Runaways: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture, and Confidence in Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 2, African and American Atlantic Worlds (Apr., 1999), pp. 243-272

  • Aiming for Pensacola

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEJournal of American History2016

    This fine monograph joins many other recent works in putting the Gulf South at the center of slavery's rise and fall. It differs, however, by taking an unusually long view of what might be called the world fugitive slaves made. Matthew J. Clavin is interested in slave resistance and in the persisting “liminality” of the South at its borders (p. 5). Pensacola, because it passed back (and forth) between empires, was a port town, had strategic signi…

  • The Slaves' Gamble

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEJournal of American History2014Cited by: 3

    Journal Article The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 Get access Gene Allen Smith. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv, 257 pp. $27.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1189–1190, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau026 Published: 01 March 2014

  • The Beardian Legacy, the Madisonian Moment, and the Politics of Slavery

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEAmerican Political Thought2013Cited by: 1

  • Companion to Benjamin Franklin

    David WaldstreicherBOOKCompanion to Benjamin Franklin2012

  • A Companion to Benjamin Franklin

    Open AccessDavid WaldstreicherBOOKCompanion to Benjamin Franklin2012

    This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders. Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the field Pays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, journalism, colonial American society, and them…

  • Seeing Jefferson Anew

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Journal Article Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours Get access Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours. Ed. by John B. Boles and Randal L. Hall. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. viii, 216 pp. $35.00, ISBN978-0-8139-2993-4.) David Waldstreicher David Waldstreicher Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…

  • Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery

    Staughton Lynd, Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2011Cited by: 5References: 2

    Staughton Lynd, David Waldstreicher, Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 597-630

  • Reflections on Economic Interpretation, Slavery, the People Out of Doors, and Top Down versus Bottom Up

    Staughton Lynd, Staughton Lynd Staughton Lynd et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2011References: 7

    Staughton Lynd, David Waldstreicher, Reflections on Economic Interpretation, Slavery, the People Out of Doors, and Top Down versus Bottom Up, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (October 2011), pp. 649-656

  • Two Cheers for the "Public Sphere"… and One for Historians' Skepticism

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2005

    H ISTORIANS treat theory the way rattlesnakes approach small mammals. They either strike to kill or swallow whole. The latter often amounts to death by citation.1 Judging from the halting quality of the debate over the early American public sphere, amid what appears to be an increasing number of citations to Habermas, it might seem as if the theory (or is it a description? a model?) of the public sphere is half swallowed and half dead. A few sust…

  • Beyond the Founders

    Donald J Ratcliffe, Jeffrey L Pasley et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

  • The Founding Fathers in Early American Historiography

    Trevor Burnard, William Howard Adams et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2005

  • History's Memory

    David WaldstreicherARTICLEBiography2003

    Ellen Fitzpatrick. History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880-1980. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. 318 pp. ISBN 0-674-00731-X, $39.95

  • Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation

    David Waldstreicher, Jürgen Heideking et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002Cited by: 1

  • Founders Chic As Culture War

    David WaldstreicherARTICLERadical History Review2002Cited by: 3References: 2

    Book Review| October 01 2002 Founders Chic As Culture War Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York: Knopf, 2000.Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.David McCullough, John Adams. New York: Simon and Schuster,2001. David Waldstreicher David Waldstreicher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Revie…

  • North over South

    David Waldstreicher, Stephanie M Grant et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 2

    Journal Article North over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era. By Susan-Mary Grant. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. xiv, 250 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1025-1.) Get access David Waldstreicher David Waldstreicher University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Page 1078…

  • Anti-Foundational Founders

    Open AccessDavid WaldstreicherARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2001References: 4

    The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. By Saul Cornell. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1999. 327 pages. $55.00 (cloth). $18.95 (paper). DURING THE 1990S, NO HISTORIAN OF EARLY AMERICA MORE PUBLICLY OR forthrightly argued for the value of postmodern theory than Saul Cornell. 1 In a series of provocative confer…