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.