About Walter A. McDougall: Walter Allen McDougall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian, currently a professor of history and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who cared nothing for history and loved only cheap land a...
America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.
