Peter Cooper Mancall
An expert on early American history, including the colonization and frontier periods
Professor of History
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expertise
- colonization of North America
- early American history
- Native American history
- indigenous cultures of North America
- frontier history — western expansion of the U.S.
- the environmental history of North America
- nature and culture in the 16th century
- history of the Atlantic world, 1492-1800
- Christopher Columbus
- Jamestown
- the history of alcohol use
Additional Information
- Author of Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (2007), Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (1995) and Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800 (1991)
- Co-author of At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (2003)
- Editor of Travel Narratives in the Age of Discovery (2006); Three Worlds Meet, volume one of the Encyclopedia of the United States (2002); American Eras: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860 (1999); Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image (1996); and Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640 (1995)
- Co-editor of American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850 (1999)
- Editorial Board Member, Reviews in American History
