Eliga Gould
Eliga Gould (2022-2023) is a professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. His 2012 book, Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire (Harvard University Press) won the Library Journal Best Book of the Year, the SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) Book Prize and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. His other works include The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (UNC Press, 2000); Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World, co-edited with Peter S. Onuf (Johns Hopkins, 2005).
Professor Gould’s current book project: Crucible of Peace: The Turbulent History of America’s Founding Treaty (Oxford, forthcoming 2023), examines the least studied of the United States’ founding documents: the Treaty of 1783 that ended the American Revolutionary War.