Drew. R. McCoy is an American historian and specialist in American political and intellectual history. McCoy was educated at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

(A.B. 1971) and the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

(M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976). He has taught American history at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, and, most recently,

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the ...

, where he is currently the Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor of History. His focus is on early American history from the colonial era through the

Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...

era of the mid-nineteenth century. His two books cover a general study of political economy in Revolutionary and Early National America, and a partial biography of

James Madison James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father. He served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for h ...

that, by focusing on his retirement, explores the transmission of republican values across generations in nineteenth-century America. He was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize by the

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in 1989, and the New England Historical Association Book Award.

Publications

* "Republicanism and American Foreign Policy: James Madison and the Political Economy of Commercial Discrimination, 1789 to 1794." ''William and Mary Quarterly'' (1974): 633-64
online
* "The Virginia Port Bill of 1784." ''Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' 83.3 (1975): 288-30
online
* "Benjamin Franklin's vision of a republican political economy for America." ''The William and Mary Quarterly'' (1978): 605-62
online
* "Jefferson and Madison on Malthus: population growth in Jeffersonian political economy." ''Virginia magazine of history and biography'' 88.3 (1980): 259-27
online
* . "Madison's America: Polity, Economy, and Society." ''Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress'' 37#2 (1980) pp 259–64
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCoy, Drew 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Clark University faculty Cornell University alumni University of Virginia alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers