Eliga Gould
Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He has written extensively on the American Revolution, emphasizing the entangled history that Americans shared with the rest of the Americas, as well as with Africa, Europe, and the wider world. His books include The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (2000), winner of the Jamestown Prize from the Omohundro Institute; Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (2005), co-edited with Peter S. Onuf; Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (2012), which won the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year; and the first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World (2021), co-edited with Paul Mapp and Carla Gardina Pestana. He has held long-term fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University, and the Fulbright-Hays Program to the United Kingdom. In 2025-26, he will be Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford. His current book project, provisionally entitled Peace and Independence: The Turbulent History of the United States’ Founding Treaty, is about the least studied of the nation’s founding documents.