AWW: Woody Holton | America at the Margins

Event details Date: Friday, October 30, 2026 Time: 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM Location: Classroom Building, Room 229, Boyd Seminar Room Type: Global / International About this event Duke Assistant Professor of History Justin Leroy welcomes Woody Holton, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, to kickoff the 26/27 Atlantic Worlds Workshop Series. Holton's book, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2021), is "a deeply researched and bracing retelling" of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans- women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Professor Holton's 2009 book, Abigail Adams, which he wrote on a Guggenheim fellowship, won the Bancroft Prize. He is the author of Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007), a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize and the National Book Award. His first book, Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), won the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti award. Lunch will be served following the event. If you're interested in any AWW events and aren't already on the Workshop mailing list, you can join here to receive the papers for the works-in-progress sessions and reminders about upcoming events: https://lists.duke.edu/sympa/subscribe/atlanticworkshop Justin Leroy (History) and Tony Ballas (Literature) are co-coordinators of the Atlantic Worlds Workshop, and Samira Mohammed Ibn Moro is the graduate assistant. Official event details: https://calendar.duke.edu/show?fq=id%3ACAL-8a002cbd-9fb2e569-01a0-6257b3ec-00007709demobedework%40mysite.edu