Woody holton biography

Woody Holton is.
Abner Linwood Holton III, known as Woody Holton, is an American historian who is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
Abner Linwood Holton III (born May 15, 1959), known as Woody Holton, is an American historian who is the McCausland Professor of History at the University.

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Holton, Woody 1959–

(Abner Woodrow Holton)

PERSONAL:

Born June 15, 1959; partner's name Gretchen; children: Beverly. Education: Duke University, graduated.

ADDRESSES:

Office—University of Richmond, 28 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA 23171. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, former faculty member; University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, associate professor of history.

MEMBER:

American Antiquarian Society.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Merle Curtis Social History Award, Organization of American Historians, and Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, New York Sons of the Revolution, both for Forced Founders; National Book Award nomination, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution.

WRITINGS:

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1999.

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Hill & Wang (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

History professor Woody Holton is interested in how economic factors have

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Department of History

Education

B.A. in English, University of Virginia
Ph.D. in History, Duke University

Bio

Teaches Early American history, especially the American Revolution, with a focus on economic history and on African Americans, Native Americans, and women.

Professor Holton teaches graduate seminars on Colonial America and on the American Revolution. At the undergraduate level, he teaches the first half of the U.S. history survey and upper-level classes on Early American Women, the American Revolution, and Early African Americans. In the near future he will teach seminars on slave rebellions and on the history of capitalism in North America.

Holton’s 2009 book, Abigail Adams, which he wrote on a Guggenheim fellowship, won the Bancroft Prize. Holton is the author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007), a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize and the National Book Award. His first book, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), won the Organi

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Woody Holton, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, has written a nearly 800-page tome entitled Liberty is Sweet and sub-titled The Hidden History of the American Revolution. His previous books include a definitive biography of Abigail Adams and Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, a work I much admire. Even before this recent Holton book was released, it ignited controversy. Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project has touted it as evidence for the project’s claim that the Revolution was provoked by a British threat to slavery. After Holton argued in the Washington Post on July 4th, 2021, that “Whites’ fury at the British for casting their lot with enslaved people drove many to the fateful step of endorsing independence,” six leading Revolutionary historians responded in a critical open letter. Tom Mackaman was more scathing at the Trotskyist “World Socialist Web Site,” which previously had published attacks on the 1619 Project by several scholars. The resulting debate even spilled over into Twitter.

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