Robert M.S. McDonald Associate Professor of History, United States Military Academy West Point, NY  10996 (845) 938-3311 robert.mcdonald@usma.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• M.St., Oxford University
• M.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• B.A., University of Virginia

Courses Taught:

• AHG 501: The American Revolution (Syllabus)
• AHG 604: Early Republic (Syllabus)

Recent Publications:

• Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Personality, (manuscript in progress)
• Editor, Light & Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Knowledge, (forthcoming)
• "The Hamiltonian Invention of Thomas Jefferson," The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father, ed. Douglas Ambrose and Robert W. T. Martin (New York: New York University Press, 2006), 54-76.
• Editor, Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2004).
• "Lost Founder: Thomas Jefferson Remembered, Forgotten, and Reconsidered," Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point, ed. Robert M. S. McDonald (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2004), 182-206.