Woody Holton

Woody Holton is the Peter and Bonnie McCausland Professor of American History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), which won the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Social History Award, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007), a finalist for the National Book Award, and Abigail Adams (2009), which won the Bancroft Prize.