Richard Beeman

Works

Books

• The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801
• Patrick Henry: A Biography
• *Finalist for the National Book Award for Biography
• Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity
• The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832
• The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
• The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution: A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U. S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from the Federalist Papers
• Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
• *George Washington Book Prize
• *Literary Award of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
• Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor: Americans Choose Independence

  Articles

• "Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment", in The Intellectual World of Benjamin Franklin
• "The Debate Over Ratification in Virginia", Proceedings of the Leon Jaworski Constitutional Institute
• "Deference, Republicanism and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Eighteenth Century America", William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series
• "Republicanism and the First American Party System", in Parties and Politics in American History
• "Small Things Remembered: Writing The History of Everyday Life in Early America", American Quarterly, 42
• "The Colonial Period of American History", in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed.
• "The First American Party System", in the Encyclopaedia of Political Parties and Elections in the United States
• "Self-Evident Fictions: Divine Right, Popular Sovereignty, and the Myth of the Constituent Power in the Anglo-American World", University of Texas Law Review, 67
• "The Revolutionary Character of the American Constitution", The Valley Forge Journal, III
• "The Democratic Faith of Patrick Henry", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 95
• "Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution", in Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography
• "The Political Response to Social Conflict in the Southern Backcountry: A Comparative View of Virginia and the Carolinas During the Revolution", in An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry in the American Revolution
• "Cultural Conflict and Social Change in the Revolutionary South: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia", with Rhys Isaac, Journal of Southern History, XLVI
• "The Social Functions of the Law in Colonial America", Reviews in American History, X
• "A New Era in Female History", Reviews in American History, IX
• "Robert Munford and the Political Culture of Frontier Virginia", Journal of American Studies, XII
• "The New Social History and the Search for 'Community' in Early America", American Quarterly, XXIX
• "Social Change and Cultural Conflict in Virginia: Lunenburg County, 1746-1774", William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, XXXV
• "The Colonial Frontier", in America's Historylands
• "Trade and Travel in Post-Revolutionary Virginia: A Diary of an Itinerant Peddler", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 84
• "Labor Forces and Race Relations: A Comparative View of the Colonization of Brazil and Virginia", Political Science Quarterly, LXXVI
• "Unlimited Debate in the Senate: The First Phase", Political Science Quarterly, LXXXIII

  Awards

• Fulbright Scholar
• Harmsworth Professorship of American History at Oxford University
• National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship