Nicholas Guyatt

Nicholas Guyatt teaches American history at Cambridge University and is the author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Basic).

Missionaries of the Middle East

Missionaries of the Middle East Missionaries of the Middle East

How 19th-century American evangelicals came to have second thoughts about doing missionary work in the Ottoman empire.

Feb 25, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’ A Peculiar Revolt: On Marcus Rediker’s ‘The Amistad Rebellion’

Public sympathies and political outcomes over the Amistad Africans drifted in opposite directions.

Nov 7, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

A Test of Loyalties: The Exiles of the American Revolution A Test of Loyalties: The Exiles of the American Revolution

Between a fifth and a third of the white population remained loyal to Britain in 1776. Why?

Jun 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Movement and Rootedness

Movement and Rootedness Movement and Rootedness

Ira Berlin and Steven Hahn want to counter the ways that the integrationist story of the American past casts aside alternative understandings of black history.

May 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery Orchids and Lilacs: Darwin, Lincoln and Slavery

What are the intellectual costs of recasting Lincoln and Darwin into heroes for our troubled times?

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Adams Ribbed Adams Ribbed

A John Adams portrait seen through the sympathetic lens of HBO is more than the historical figure ever hoped for.

May 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

Father Knows Best Father Knows Best

Have you attacked the Founding Fathers lately? Know anyone who has? Gordon Wood knows you're out there, on a campaign to dehumanize Washington, Jefferson and their peers.

Sep 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Guyatt

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