Season One Trailer: The Crisis

Fred Anderson received his B.A. with Highest Distinction from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His publications include Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000) and, with Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America,1500-2000 (2005).

Shira Lurie is an Assistant Professor of U.S. History at Saint Mary's University. She is the author of "The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic" with UVA Press. Her writing has been published in The Journal of the Early Republic, the Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and Inside Higher Ed. She received a PhD in History from the University of Virginia.

Serena Zabin is a Professor of History and Chair of the History Department (since 2020) at Carleton College; she is also President of the Society of the History of the Early American Republic. Professor Zabin is the author of the prizewinning The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), which was also named an Amazon Editor’s Choice for History in 2020. The research for this book covers four countries and was supported by numerous grants, including the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Wendy Bellion is Associate Dean for the Humanities and Sewell Biggs Chair in American Art History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of several books and many articles about art and material culture in the early national United States, including Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment (2019). Her research explores the intersections of visual culture and political culture within the British Atlantic World.

I was born in the United States and grew up in Massachusetts, where I acquired a life-long interest in the American Revolution. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, I gained my PhD in history at University College London. I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1999. I now live in Scotland with my husband, who is British. I have lectured in American history at Dundee and Edinburgh Universities, where I specialized in the Revolutionary era. My first book, "When London Was Capital of America", explores the period just before the American Revolution through the experiences of individual colonists in London. "The Howe Dynasty" (2021) was a Finalist for the 2022 George Washington Book Prize, and a New York Times Editor's Choice, August 2021.

I am a professor of history at Notre Dame. Before that I taught at the University of Virginia. I have earned degrees from Notre Dame, Columbia, Northwestern, and Oxford. I have published five solo-authored books and edited a few more. Last year, I was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford. This year I was admitted as an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

After completing my PhD residence in the 1970s my day jobs involved executive leadership in libraries, publishing, archives, and museums - but after defending my dissertation in 1980 I continued to publish scholarship and reviews in the major history journals like my contemporaries in degree-granting institutions.

I've been interested in Early American and British history since college. I'm passionate about seeing things fresh from extensive research in primary sources - as a result many of my articles and books have, as they say, broken new ground.

Christian Ayne Crouch is Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of History and American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. She is the author of the award-winning Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France (Cornell 2014). Her scholarship has considered topics in Atlantic military culture, French imperial legacies, intersection in Native and African-American history. Her current book project, "Queen Victoria's Captive: A Story of Ambition, Empire, and a Stolen Ethiopian Prince," explores the human and material consequences of the 1868 Mandala Campaign in Ethiopia in Atlantic context.

Author of six books about Early America, including In the Devil’s Snare (Salem witchcraft), 1774 (coming of the American Revolution) and Liberty’s Daughters (women in the Revolution). Retired after teaching for 49 years, primarily at Cornell university.

Maeve Kane is an associate professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she teaches Indigenous and early American history. Kane received her BA from Macalester College and her MA and PhD from Cornell University. Her first book, Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across Three Centuries (Cornell 2023), argues that Haudenosaunee women used clothing and material culture to maintain an enduring Haudenosaunee identity in the face of American colonial pressures to assimilate and disappear. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humantities, the Mellon Foundation, the New-York Historical Society, the Newberry Library, and the American Philosophical Society. Her other writing has appeared in the journals Ethnohistory and The Journal of Early American History, and she is the co-author of a forthcoming American women's history textbook covering the peopling of the Americas to 2021, American Women: A New Narrative (Wiley-Blackwell 2024).