Frank Cogliano, Ph.D.
Frank Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh. Cogliano is a specialist in the history of the American Revolution and the early United States, he is the author or editor of twelve books, including: A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson and the American Republic (2024), finalist for the 2025 George Washington Book Prize, Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy (2014), The Blackwell Companion to Jefferson (2012), Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (2006). His Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History is now in its fourth edition.
Sept. 22, 2025
Episode 19: The Gambit
With British authority collapsing in North America, Britons on both sides of the Atlantic including Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, and Lord Dartmouth engage in desperate and secret negotiations to avoid all the horrors of civil war.