Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic (1998) and The Politics of Long Division (2000), focus on the interactions of voters and their national representatives. He has published over thirty articles, notably in the Journal of American History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and American Nineteenth Century History. He continues to work on electoral politics between the Revolution and the Civil War. Brian Holden Reid FRHistS, FRGS, FRUSI, FRSA, is Professor of American History and Military Institutions at King’s College London. A former Head of Department (2001–07), in 2007 he was awarded the Fellowship of King’s College London (FKC), the highest honor the college can award its alumni and staff, and he is both. He is a trustee of the Society of Military History, Honorary Vice-president of the Society of Army Historical Research, and a member of the Council of the National Army Museum, London. In he was the first non-American to serve as a member of the Lincoln Prize Jury Panel for the award of the most important literary prize in Civil War history. Similarly, in 2007 he was the first non-American to deliver the twelfth Elizabeth Roller Bottimore Lecture at the University of Richmond, Virginia. His books include J. F. C. Fuller Military Thinker (1987, 1990), The Origins of the American Civil War (1996), Studies in British Military Thought (1998), Robert E. Lee Icon fora Nation (2005, 2007), and America’s Civil War: The Operational Battlefield, 1861–1863 (2008).
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