Van Gosse - EXPeditions

I'm a professor of history at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

My original scholarship focused on the US New Left after 1945. After publishing various books and articles, I turned my attention to the question of black citizenship as a central issue in American history. My latest book is The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America From the Revolution to the Civil War.

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Publications

Gosse, V. (2021). The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. The University of North Carolina Press.
Waldstreicher, D. & Gosse, V. (Eds.). (2020). Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gosse, V. (2019, June 12). Are we the new Radical Republicans? Organizing Upgrade.
Gosse, V. (2014, February 12). Jim Crow Justice–As Usual. Huffington Post.
Gosse, V. (2008). “As a Nation, the English Are Our Friends”: The Emergence of African American Politics in the British Atlantic World, 1772–1861. The American Historical Review, 113(4), 1003–1028.
Gosse, V. (2005). Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History. Palgrave Macmillan.

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