W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies
Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Harvard University

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Research

American Politics
Political Theory




Awards

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2006-2007
Doctor of Humane Letters, Barat College, 2002
President, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 2002-2003
Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2000
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999
Order of the Cincinnati Book Prize, 1998
Pulitzer Prize in History, 1997
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, 1997
Stanford Humanities Center, Faculty Fellowship, 1988‑89, 2000-2001
National Endowment for the Humanities, Constitutional Fellowship, 1984‑85
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Instructor, 1984 (College Teachers), 1987 (Law Professors)
Project '87, research fellowship, 1982
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1977
Delancey K. Jay Prize, Harvard University, 1976
Graduate Prize Fellowship, Harvard University, 1969‑74
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Designate, 1968



Professional Activities

Papers, Lectures, and Conferences

“President and Commander: Constitutional Myth, Political Reality,” Philip Pro Lecture in Legal History, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, March 2006; Bridgewater (Mass.) State College, March 2006

“The United States Constitution: The Continuing Struggle over Its Interpretation,” Beijing Foreign Studies University; Beijing International Studies University; Shanghai East Normal University; September 2005; University of Vienna, May 2006

“What the Declaration of Independence Declared,” Colonial Williamsburg, May 2005

“The Curious and Mysterious History of the Electoral College,” Gadsby’s Tavern, Alexandria, Va., August 2004; Don Edwards Lecture and Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley, San Jose State University, Oct. 2004

Panelist on the work of Gordon Wood, SHEAR Annual Meeting, Brown University, July 2004

“‘Puzzling the Greatest Adepts in Political Science,’ or, Perennial Problems in the Separation of Powers,” Roger Williams Univ. School of Law and Rhode Island Common Cause, Nov. 2003

Panelist on Marbury v. Madison, SHEAR Annual Meeting, Ohio State University, July 2003

“What Did the Constitution Originally Mean?” Atlanta History Center, April 2003; South Dakota State University, October 2005

“Les trois contextes explicatifs du contrôle judiciaire de constitutionnalité des lois,” Symposium on Marbury v. Madison, Center for American Law, University of Paris II, February 2003

“The Federalist and the Founding of the American Republic,” and “Madison as Publius: Some Problems and Puzzles,” keynote address at conference on “Republic, Democracy, and Constitution: The Contribution of The Federalist to Democratic Thought,” Shalem Center, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University, November 2002

“The War Powers of a Republican President,” Mark D. Hatfield Distinguished Historians Forum, Portland, Oregon, November 2002

“Collegiate Fallacies and Fantasies,” Symposium on Electing the President, Academy of Political Science, New York, September 2002

“Thinking Like a Constitution,” New York University School of Law, September 2002; Harvard University School of Law, September 2002; Tel Aviv School of Law, November 2002; Presidential Address, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, July 2003


“Jefferson, Rights, and the Priority of Freedom of Conscience,” Thomas Jefferson, Rights, and the Contemporary World, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, June 2002                       

“Two Constitutional ‘Crises’: Impeachment and the Y2K Election: The View from 1787,” Bowdoin College, April 2002

“The Founding Fathers and Federalism,” panel, National Governors Association, Washington, Feb. 2002

“Ticklish Experiments: The Paradox of American Constitutionalism,” America and the Enlightenment: Constitutionalism in the 21st Century, Institute of U. S. Studies, London, November 2001

“The Strange Election of 2000: A Truly Long View,” Paul V. McNutt Lecture, University of Indiana, October 2001

“Madison and Freedom of Conscience: The Essential Right,” James Madison Univ., March 2001,  Cornell University, April 2003

“The Political Presidency: Invention and Discovery,” The Revolution of 1800, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Dec. 2000

“Jefferson and the Concept of Rights,” International Center for Jefferson Studies, Sept. 2000

“The Second Amendment: The Highest Stage of Originalism,” Symposium, Chicago-Kent Law School, April 2000; Rohrschach Lecture, Rice University, December 2002

“Reading Madison’s Mind,” Library of Congress, March 2000; Cornell University, Sept. 2000; University of Texas School of Law, Oct. 2000; Northwestern University School of Law, Nov. 2000; Princeton University, Feb. 2001; Madison Memorial Foundation, July 2001; Claremont McKenna College, Oct. 2001; Williams College, Oct. 2003; Chicago Humanities Festival, Nov. 2003

“The Impeachment Imbroglio,” annual meeting of the Amer. Hist. Assoc., Jan. 2000

“A Tale of Two Confederations, Or, Letting New York Become New York,” annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Toronto, April 1999; Seminar in Early American History, Columbia University, Sept. 1999; Colloquium in Legal History, New York University School of Law, Sept. 1999; Fulton Lecture, Univ. of Chicago Law School, May 2000; Northwestern Univ., Nov. 2000; conference on Federalism and Federations in the Americas: Utopias, Praxis, Limits, Universities of Paris 7, 10, 12, June 2003

“Why George Washington Was Not the Model for the American Presidency,” Huntington Library, November 7, 1998

“Rights Talk in Historical Perspective,” panel, Amer. Soc. for Legal History, Seattle, Oct. 1997


“The Super-Legality of the Constitution, Or, A Critique of Bruce Ackerman's Neo-Federalism,” Symposium on Constitutional Transformations, Yale Law School, Sept. 1997; New York University School of Law, Sept. 1997

“Affirmative Action and Equal Protection,” Judicial Conference of the Tenth Circuit, June 1997

“The Origins of Judicial Review: A Plea for a New Subject,” Stanford Law Review Symposium on Critical History, Nov. 1996

Presentations on Original Meanings, Univ. of Texas Law School, Oct. 1996; Institute for Governmental Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Nov. 1996; Seminar in Legal Theory, Yale Law School, Dec. 1996; Oxford Univ., Jan. 1997; Cambridge Univ., Feb. 1997; Institute of United States Studies, London, March 1997; annual meeting of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic, July 1997; Univ. of Virginia School of Law, Sept. 1997; Washington & Lee School of Law, Sept. 1997; annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Nov. 1997; Univ. of Michigan School of Law, Dec. 1997; Palomar College, March 1998; Judicial Conference of the Fifth Circuit, Houston, April 1999; Drake Univ. School of Law, Oct. 2000; Distinguished Author lecture, Amerika Haus, Vienna; University of Graz; and IMC Fachhochschule, Krems, Austria, May 2006

“The Dilemma of Declaring Rights,” Rohrschach Lecture, Rice University, October 1996; New York University Law School, Sept. 1997; Bacon Lecture, Boston University, March 1998; O.A.H. lecture, Northwest Nazarene College, April 1998; Gunston Hall Plantation, March 1999; Southwest Texas State University, April 1999; University of Alabama, February 2000; Eastern Kentucky University, Jan. 2002; Space Institute of the University of Tennessee, April 2002; O.A.H. lecture, North Park University, March 2004; Northwestern University, May 2004

“Fidelity Through History (Or To It),” Symposium on Fidelity in Constitutional Interpretation, Fordham Law School, Sept. 1996

“The American Mirror of Representation, 1775-1800,” Seminar Giornate Atlantiche di Storia Costituzionale, Macerata, Italy, Sept. 1995

Comment on James Oakes, “Slavery and the Constitution,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, University of Cincinnati, July 1995

“Hume, Madison, and the Vexatious Question of Influence,” conference on David Hume and 18th-century America, College of William and Mary, April 1995

“Contingency and Legitimation in the Madisonian Solution,” conference on Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, Feb. 1994, March 1995

“The Separation of Powers in a Federal Context,” Seminar Giornate Atlantiche di Storia Costituzionale, Macerata, Italy, April 1993

Symposium on Oneida Indian Nation v. New York, Boston College Law School, Sept. 1992

“Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights, 1776‑1791,” Woodrow Wilson Center workshop on the Bill of Rights, Dec. 1989; Harvard University, Oct. 1990

“The Madisonian Theory of Rights,” Bill of Rights Symposium, Marshall‑Wythe College of Law, William and Mary, April 1989

“Unsettled Precedents: Presidential Authority in Foreign Affairs,” Smith College Feb. 1989; Library of Congress, Jan. 1990

“The First Phase of American Federalism,” Conference on Comparative Federalism, Georgetown Univ, Law Center and Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities, Dec. 1988

“‘How Else Could It End?’: Bernard Bailyn and the Problem of Authority in Early America,” conference honoring Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University, Oct. 1987

“Ambiguous Achievement: The Northwest Ordinance,” symposium on the Northwest Ordinance, Michigan State University, May 1987

“The Federalist's ‘New Science of Politics,’” conference on The Federalist, Centro di Studi Americani, Rome, March 1987

“James Madison, Original Intent, and Constitutional Irony,” Kalamazoo College, February 1987, conferences on The American Experiment, Harvard University, and To Form a More Perfect Union, Capitol Hill Historical Society, March 1987

“Audacity and Political Change: The Annapolis Convention of 1786,” conference on Political Change, Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, Dec. 1986

Presentations on Judicial Review and Original Intent, Harvard Univ. Dec. 1986; Pacific Union College, April 1987; Univ. of Michigan, Flint, May 1987; U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California Historical Society, May 1987; Judicial Conference of the D.C. Circuit, May 1987; Univ. of Maryland, July 1987; UCLA, August 1987; Sheldon Jackson College and Alaska State Museum, Sept. 1987; Univ. of Portland, Nov. 1987; St. Mary's College, Nov. 1987; UC Irvine, Nov. 1987; Sonoma State Univ., March 1988; St. Johns College, April 1988

“The Constitution in Historical Perspective,” Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Santander, Spain, Sept. 1986

“The Role of the Presidency in the New Nation,” lecture series on The Great Constitutional Debates, UCLA, Nov. 1985

“The Uses of The Federalist, 1789‑1861,” conference on The Federalist, Claremont McKenna College, Oct. 1985

“Original Meanings of the Constitution: The Historian's Contribution,” Columbia Univ. Seminar in Legal Theory, April 1985; Harvard University, Feb. 1989

“The Condition of American Federalism before the Constitution,” conference on The American Revolution: The Unfinished Agenda, The Johns Hopkins University, March 1985

“Balancing State and Regional Interests,” conference on A Meeting among Friends: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Independence National Historical Park, Phila., Feb. 1985

“The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George Washington,” conference on The Making of the Constitution, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Oct. 1984

“The Convention and the Constitution,” National Colloquium in honor of the Bicentennial of the Constitution, Wake Forest University, April 1984

“Ironies of Empire: Hope, Desperation, and the Making of the Northwest Ordinance,” conference on Novus Ordo Seclorum?, Claremont Institute, Feb. 1984

“The Writing of the Constitution: A Comment,” International Conference on the Writing of Constitutions, American Enterprise Institute, Sept. 1983

“Federalism, Liberty, and the Creation of the American Republic,” Texas Wesleyan, April 1983

“The Collapse of the Confederation,” American Political Science Association, Sept. 1982

“The New Federalism in Historical Perspective,” U.S. Conference of Mayors , San Francisco, March 1982

“The Legacy of the Articles of Confederation,” conference on The Continuing Legacy of the Articles of Confederation, Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, August 1981
“French Diplomacy and American Politics: The First Crisis, 1779,” symposium on the Franco‑American Alliance, Loyola University of Chicago, April 1978

“The Continental Congress and the States,” Organization of American Historians, April 1974



Publications

Books
ed., Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights (Barnes & Noble, 2006)

with Patricia Limerick and Philip Deloria, This Land (Brandywine Books, 2003)

ed., The Federalist: The Major Essays (Boston: Bedford Books, 2003)

ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000 (New York: Basic Books, 2001)

ed., with John Ferejohn and Jonathan Riley, Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

ed., James Madison: Writings (New York: Library of America, 1999)

Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997)

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; main selection, History Book Club, June 1996; paperback, Vintage, 1997); awarded Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in History, 1997; Order of the Cincinnati Book Prize, 1998

James Madison and the Creation of the AmericanRepublic (Glenview, Ill.: Scott Forsman, 1990); 2d ed., expanded (Longman, 2001); 3d ed., (Longman, 2006)

ed., Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate over Original Intent (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990)

The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979; paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)

Books in progress:
Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation, 1773-1791 (Houghton Mifflin)

Freedom of Conscience (Oxford University Press)

Victims of Federalism: A Constitutional History of Indian Relations, 1750-1840

with Larry Kramer, eds, The Origins of Judicial Review: A Brief History with Documents (Boston, Bedford Books)

Scholarly Articles and Chapters:
“Confederation and Constitution,” in Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds., Cambridge History of Law in America (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)

“Can We Know a Foundational Idea When We See One?” in James Caeser et al., Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)

“The Founders’ Congress,” in Julian Zelizer, ed., The Reader’s Companion to the American Congress (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

“Jefferson, Rights, and the Priority of Freedom of Conscience,” in Robert Fatton and R. K. Ramzani, eds., The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World (New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2004), 49-64

“Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies,” Political Science Quarterly, 119 (2004), 21-37

“Thinking Like a Constitution,” Journal of the Early Republic, 24 (2004), 1-26

“The Constitution in Crisis Times,” Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, 2 (2003), 11-20

“Once More into the Judicial Breach,” George Washington Law Review, 72 (2003), 381-86

“Confessions of an Ambivalent Originalist,” New YorkUniv. Law Review, 78 (2003), 1346-56

“Why American Constitutionalism Worked,” in Henry J. Turner, ed., Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Yale University Press, 2003), 248-67

“Judicial Review Before and Beyond Marbury,” in Elizabeth Zoller, ed., Marbury v. Madison: 1803-2003–Un dialogue franco-americain/A French-American Dialogue (Paris: Dalloz, 2003), 37-49

“Europe’s Floundering Fathers,” Foreign Policy, September-October 2003, 28-39

“Judicial Power in the Constitutional Theory of James Madison,” William and Mary Law Review, 43 (2002), 1513-47

“The Political Presidency: Creation and Invention,” in James Horn, Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds., The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (University Press of Virginia, 2002), 30-58

“American Federalism: Was There an Original Understanding?” in Mark Killenbeck, ed., The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty: Constitutional History and Contemporary Issues (Lanham, Md.: Rowman, Littlefield, 2001), 107-130

“Dangling Questions,” and “The E-College in the E-Age,” in Rakove, ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000 (New York: Basic Books, 2001), xi-xxi, 201-234

“Once More into the Breach: Reflections on Jefferson, Madison, and the Religion Problem,” in Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti, eds., Making Good Citizens: Education and Civic Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 233-262

“Introduction,” and “Constitutional Problematics, circa 1787,” in John Ferejohn, Jack Rakove, and Jonathan Riley, eds., Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1-37, 41-70

“The Second Amendment: The Highest Stage of Originalism,” Chicago-Kent Law Review, 76 (2000), 103-166; revised and reprinted in Carl Bogus, ed., The Second Amendment in Law and History (New York: New Press, 2001), 74-116

“Bernard Bailyn,” in Robert Rutland, ed., Clio’s Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000), 5-22.

“Our Jefferson,” in Peter S. Onuf and Jan Lewis, eds., Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 210-35

“Statement on the Background and History of Impeachment,” George Washington Law Review 67 (1999), 682-92

“The Super-Legality of the Constitution, or, A Federalist Critique of Bruce Ackerman's Neo-Federalism,” Yale Law Journal, 108 (1999), 1931-1958

“Making a Hash of Sovereignty, Part One” Green Bag, 2 (1998), 35-44; “Part Two,” ibid., 3 (1999), 51-59 

“The Origins of Judicial Review: A Plea for New Contexts,” Stanford Law Review, 49 (May 1997), 1031-64

“Fidelity through History--Or to It?,” Fordham Law Review, 65 (March 1997), 1587-1609

“Original Intention of Original Understanding,” Constitutional Commentary, 13 (1996), 159-86

“Separated Powers in the American Federal System,” in Roberto Martucci, ed., Constitution & Revolution aux Etats-Unis d'Americque et en Europe (1776/1815) (Macerata, Italy, 1995) 99-106

“Comment [on V. L. Ushakov, `The Articles of Confederation and the Union Forever']” in Gordon Wood and Louise Wood, eds., Russian-American Dialogues on the American Revolution (Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri Press, 1995), 232-36

“James Madison and the Bill of Rights: A Broader Context,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 22 (1992), 667-77

“Parchment Barriers and the Politics of Rights, 1776‑1791,” in Michael Lacey and Knud Haakonssen, eds., A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics, and Law: 1791 and 1991 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 98-143

“‘How Else Could It End?’: Bernard Bailyn and the Problem of Authority in Early America,” in James Henretta, Michael Kammen, and Stanley Katz, eds., The Transformation of Early American History (New York: Knopf, 1991), 51-69

“The First Phase of American Federalism,” in Mark Tushnet, ed., Comparative Constitutional Federalism: Europe and America(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1990), 1‑19

“Making Foreign Policy: The View from 1787,” in Robert A. Goldwin and Robert A. Licht, eds., Foreign Policy and the Constitution (Washington: AEI Press, 1990), 1‑19

“The Madisonian Theory of Rights,” William and Mary Law Review, 31 (1989‑90), 245‑266

“Ambiguous Achievement: The Northwest Ordinance,” in Frederick D. Williams, ed., The Northwest Ordinance: Essays on Its Formulation, Provisions, and Legacy (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1989), 1‑19

“On Understanding the Constitution: A Historian's Reflections (and Dissent),” in Robert Utley, ed., Principles of the Constitutional Order (Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America, 1989), 33‑47

“The Madisonian Moment,” University of Chicago Law Review, 55 (1988), 473‑505; reprinted in Peter Onuf, ed., The New American Nation, 1775-1820, vol. 5 (New York: Garland, 1991)

“The Collapse of the Articles of Confederation,” in Leonard W. Levy et al., eds., The American Founding (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988), 225‑246

“The Writing of the Constitution: A Comment,” in Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman, eds., Constitution Makers on Constitution Making: The Experience of Eight Nations (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1988), 154‑162

“La nuova ‘scienza della politica’ del Federalist,” in Guglielmo Negri, ed., Il Federalista: 200 Anni Dopo (Bologna: Societa editrice il mulino, 1988), 21‑46

(with Susan Zlomke), “James Madison and the Independent Executive,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 16 (1987), 293‑300

“From One Agenda to Another: The Condition of American Federalism, 1783‑1787,” in Jack P. Greene, ed., The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits (New York: New York University Press, 1987), 80‑103; also published as “Alle origini del federalismo americano: gli anni 1783‑1787,” Comunita`, #188 (Dicembre 1986), 353‑378

“Early Uses of The Federalist,” in Charles R. Kesler, ed., Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (New York: The Free Press, 1987), 234‑249

“‘The Great Compromise’: Drafting the American Constitution, 1787,” History Today, 37 (September 1987), 19‑25

“The Road to Philadelphia, 1781‑1787,” in Leonard W. Levy and Dennis J. Mahoney, eds., The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 98‑111

“The Great Compromise: Ideas, Interests, and the Politics of Constitution‑Making,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 44 (1987), 424‑457; reprinted in Peter Onuf, ed., The New American Nation, 1775-1820, vol. 5 (New York: Garland, 1991)

“Gordon Wood, ‘The Republican Synthesis,’ and the Path Not Taken,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 44 (1987), 617‑622

“Philadelphia Story,” Wilson Quarterly, 11 (spring 1987), 105‑121

“The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George Washington,” in Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II, eds., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987), 261‑294

“Mr. Meese, Meet Mr. Madison,” The Atlantic (Dec. 1986), 77‑86

“Tea at Governor Hutchinson’s,” in John Merriman, ed., For Want of a Horse: Choice and Chance in History (Lexington: Stephen Greene Press, 1985), 141‑147

“Solving a Constitutional Puzzle: The Treatymaking Clause as a Case Study,” Perspectives in American History, n.s. 1 (1984), 233‑282; reprinted in Peter Onuf, ed., The New American Nation, 1775-1820, vol. 5 (New York: Garland, 1991)

“The Legacy of the Articles of Confederation,” Publius, 12 (1982), 45‑66

“French Diplomacy and American Politics: The First Crisis 1779" Mid‑America, 60 (1978) 27‑36

“The Decision for American Independence: A Reconstruction,” Perspectives in American History, X (1976), 215‑75

 

University Service
Appointments and Promotions Committee, School of Humanities & Sciences, 2004-2006
Graduate Program in Communications, Review Committee, 2004
Decanal Search Committee, Stanford Law School, 2004
Athletic Compliance Committee, 2002-2005
Provostial Search Committee, 2000
Board of Governors, The Hanna House, Stanford, California 1996-
Board of the Stanford University Press, 1997-99
Overseas Studies Advisory Committee, 1997-99
University Committee on Land, Building, and Development, 1993-96
Committee on Graduate Studies, 1993-96 (chair, 1994-96)
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 1991-97, 1999-2000
Director, American Studies Program, 1985-88, 2002-2003

Other Academic Service
United States Embassy Lecturer, Austria, May 2006
Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University, September 2005
Co-chair, Annual Meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History, 2005
Gilder-Lehrman Institute, Summer Seminar Instructor, 2003-
President, Society for the History of the Early Republic, 2002-2003
Academic Advisory Committee, National Center for the Constitution, 2001-
Chair, Advisory Committee, James Madison Commemoration Commission, 2001
Littleton-Griswold Book Prize, American Historical Association, 2000-2003
Council, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 2000-
Seminar Leader, Institute of Constitutional History, Supreme Court Historical Society, June 2000
Council, Omohundro Institute of Early American History, 1999-2002
Board of Editors, William and Mary Quarterly, 1999-2002 (chair 2002)
Juror, Pulitzer Prize in History, 2000
Program Chair, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 1998
Council, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 1994-1997
Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law, Sept. 1997-Sept. 2003
Member, California Bicentennial Commission, 1986-1987
United States Information Agency, lecturer, Spain and Turkey, September 1986


Media Engagements
Participant and adviser, Whose Curse Is Worse: Red Sox and Cubs on Trial, produced for ESPN by K2 Productions
Consultant, Liberty’s Kids, a 40-episode animated program produced for PBS by DIC   Entertainment, Burbank (Humanitas Prize nominee, 2003), and accompanying educational software, Riverdeep–The Learning Company
Consultant, Craven Street, a 5-episode radio program recreating Benjamin Franklin's   years in London, American Dialogues Foundation, Los Angeles
Consultant to and commentator for Dateline '87, a 14‑episode radio program recreating the Federal Convention, produced by National Radio Theatre of Chicago
Interviewed on NPR Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition; PBS News Hour; Fox News; KQED Forum with Michael Krasny; WBUR Odyssey (Chicago); C-SPAN Booknotes and Washington Journal; and other radio and educational programs


Manuscript Reader: William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of American History, Polity, Publius, Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Political Theory, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, W. W. Norton, and the North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Yale, Northeastern, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oxford, Northern Illinois, Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge university presses

Professional Memberships: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society of American Historians, Associates of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, American Political Science Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society

Legal and Political Consulting
Author, amicus curiae brief submitted to the U. S. Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in consultation with the Supreme Court Clinic of Stanford Law School
Author, amicus curiae brief submitted to the U. S. Supreme Court in Vieth v. Jubelirer, 2003, in consultation with Jenner, Block and Sidley, Austin
Consultant to the Attorney General of the State of Maryland in re Virginia v. Maryland (2000-)
Witness, Hearings on The Background and History of Impeachment, Subcommittee on the Judiciary, Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. House of Representatives, November 9, 1998
Consultant to O'Melveny and Myers in re U.S. House of Representatives v. U.S. Dept. of Commerce (1998), and Commonwealth of Virginia v. U.S. (2000)
Consultant to the Attorney General of the State of New York in re Seneca Indian Nation v. New York (1997-2000 )
Consultant to Zuckerman, Spader (Washington, D.C.) in re Oneida Indian Nation history and litigation (1997-)
Consultant to New York Power Authority in St. Regis Mohawk v. New York Power Authority (1989)
Member, California Bicentennial Commission on the United States Constitution, 1986‑87
Consultant to Goodwin, Procter & Hoar (Boston) and expert witness in re Oneida Indian Nation v. State of New York (1983‑88)