R. Don Higginbotham
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Research Interests
Professor Higginbotham's research interests are primarily in American history to 1815, although his work on the American Revolution has led him to do several articles on the subject of comparative revolution -- America and Mexico, America and Vietnam, and the American Revolution and the Confederate Revolution. In addition to several books on the American Revolution, he has edited the Papers of James Iredell, a North Carolina and Federalist leader. His most recent publications are "The Martial Spirit in the Antebellum South," Journal of Southern History, 58 (1992), 1-26, "Formentors of Revolution: Massachusetts and South Carolina," Journal of the Early Republic, 14 (1994), 1-33, and "The Federalized Militia Debate: A Neglected Aspect of Second Amendment Scholarship," William and Mary Quarterly, 55 (1998), 39-58. He is currently working on a book on George Washington and his relationship to the American Revolution, an essentially non-military study. He examined his military relationship to the Revolution in George Washington and the American Military Tradition (1985). Higginbotham's George Washington Reconsidered: Selected Essays appeared in 2001. Washington: Uniting a Nation (2002) is his most recent work.
Graduate Students Advised by Don Higginbotham
Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 561 -- The American Colonial Experience
- HIST 564 -- Revolution and Nation-Making in America, 1763-1815
- HIST 831 -- Readings in Early American History, 1607-1763
- HIST 832 -- The American Revolutionary Era, 1763-1789
- HIST 833 -- The Federal Period, 1789-1820
- HIST 930 -- The American Revolution, 1763-1789
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Phone: (919) 962-1203
higginbo@email.unc.edu