Patriots Before Revolution with Amy Watson

October 16 at 9amPT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm BST

Join NACBS to celebrate Amy Watson’s recent publication Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763. Peter Mancall will join Amy Watson in discussion.

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Amy Watson is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the History of the Early Modern Americas at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. Her research has also been supported by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, among others. She has published in The William and Mary Quarterly and The Scottish Historical Review. Patriots Before Revolution: The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763 (Yale, 2025) is her first book.

Peter C. Mancall is Distinguished Professor; the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities; Professor of History, Anthropology, and Economics; and the Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is the author of seven books including Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018); Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson (2009); Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007); Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995); and, most recently, The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer (2019). He is currently writing Troubled Continent, which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States. He is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and the Royal Historical Society and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.  

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