Assistant Professor John A. Ruddiman
Early American History
B-108 Tribble Hall; 758-4289
e-mail:  ruddimja@wfu.edu

Education:
A.B. Princeton University
M.A., M.Phil. Yale University
Ph.D. Yale University

Courses Offering:
H108 The Americas & the World
H258 Colonial America
H354 Revolutionary and Early National America, 1763-1815

Professional and Research Interests: The American Revolution and Early Republic; colonial frontiers and the Atlantic world; early African-American history; gender and the family in early America

Selected Publications:
“A Record in the Hands of Thousands: Power and Persuasion in the Orderly Books of the Continental Army.”  William and Mary Quarterly (forthcoming, October 2010).

“Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Young Men of the Continental Army in Revolutionary War and Peace” Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 2010.