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PhD History University of Texas at Austin
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According to Wikipedia, Forrest McDonald, Jr. was an American historian who wrote extensively on the early national period of the United States, republicanism, and the presidency, but he is possibly best known for his polemic on the American South. He was a professor at the University of Alabama, where, together with Grady McWhiney, he developed the hypothesis that the South had been colonized by "Anglo-Celts," rather than the British Protestant farmers who populated the North.

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Forrest McDonald's Published Works

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Novus Ordo Seclorum: the Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (1985) (182)
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (1989) (171)
The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (1977) (107)
We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution (1958) (97)
Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (1982) (83)
The American people (1982) (73)
States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876 (2002) (45)
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1976) (40)
The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation (1975) (39)
E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790 (1979) (34)
Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching (1981) (30)
The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. (1994) (28)
The Ethnic Origins of the American People, 1790 (1980) (27)
History of the Supreme Court of the United States: Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 (1973) (26)
The South from Self-Sufficiency to Peonage: An Interpretation (1980) (24)
A constitutional history of the United States (1982) (20)
Celtic Origins of Southern Herding Practices (1985) (16)
Antebellum North and South in Comparative Perspective: A Discussion (1980) (16)
The Presidency of George Washington (1974) (15)
The United States in the twentieth century (1970) (14)
Samuel Insull and the Movement for State Utility Regulatory Commissions (1958) (13)
Empire and Nation (1999) (11)
Let there be light : the electric utility industry in Wisconsin, 1881-1955 (1957) (8)
The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market. By Robert Sobel. New York, The Free Press, 1965. Pp. xiii + 395. $7.95 (1966) (8)
Comparative History in Theory and Practice: A Discussion (1982) (6)
Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805 (1979) (4)
Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes (1988) (4)
The economic interpretation of the Constitution (1955) (3)
My Odyssey through History: Memoirs of War and Academe (2003) (2)
The torch is passed : the United States in the 20th century (1968) (2)
The anti-Federalists, 1781-1789 (1963) (2)
The Intellectual World of the Founding Fathers (1987) (2)
The Phaeton Ride: The Crisis of American Success (1974) (2)
Celtic Names in the Antebellum Southern United States (1983) (2)
Presidential Character: The Example of George Washington (1997) (1)
United States Oil Policy, 1890–1964: Business and Government in Twentieth Century America. By Gerald D. Nash. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Pp. xiii + 286. $7.95 (1970) (1)
Confederation and constitution, 1781-1789 (1968) (1)
Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoir (2004) (1)
Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution , Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985. Pp. xiii, 359. $25.00 (ISBN: 0-7006-0284-4). (1988) (1)
Code Number 72: Benjamin Franklin, Patriot or Spy? (1974) (1)
The Triumph of Nationalism: State Sovereignty, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of the Constitution (1969) (1)
The last best hope : a history of the United States (1973) (1)
A Neo-Federalist View of the Jeffersonians@@@The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. (1977) (0)
Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism. (1990) (0)
Book Review: Conceptual Change and the Constitution, edited by Terence Ball and J.G.A. Pocock (1990) (0)
Annotated Secessionist Papers (2016) (0)
The Foundations of American Citizenship: Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtue. By Richard C. Sinopoli. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 215p. $32.50. (1994) (0)
The Economic Interests of the Fifty-Five Delegates Attending the Convention (2017) (0)
Ratification in States Generally Favorable to the Constitution (2017) (0)
The Human Washington (2004) (0)
Political Parties Before the Constitution by Jackson Turner Main (1975) (0)
Constitutional Aspects of American Federalism (1964) (0)
Theodore Sedgwick, Federalist: A Political Portrait. By Richard E. Welch, Jr. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965. viii + 276 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $7.50.) (1966) (0)
In Search of Southern Roots@@@The Ethnic Southerners. (1977) (0)
Understanding Eighteenth-Century Constitutionalism: Recapturing Text and Context@@@Conceptual Change and the Constitution.@@@Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes.@@@The Origins of American Constitutionalism. (1990) (0)
Economic Interests and Votes in the Convention (2017) (0)
Method to handle concurrent fatal events in a multicore execution environment (2016) (0)
Economic Interests and Their Relation to the Constitution (2017) (0)
Colliding with the Past (1997) (0)
[Celtic Mist over the South]: A Response (1986) (0)
Drew R. Mccoy. The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. 1980. Pp. ix, 268. $21.50 (1981) (0)
Charles A. Beard’s Pioneer Interpretation of the Making of the Constitution (2017) (0)
A Republic, Madam, If You Can Keep It (2012) (0)
The Secessionist Papers (2016) (0)
Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov. Russia and the American Revolution. Translated and edited by c. jay smith. Tallahassee, Fla.: Diplomatic Press. 1976. Pp. xiv, 277. $29.70 (1979) (0)
Historical Impeachment Review, Pt. 3 (1998) (0)
Charles A. Beard and the Constitution: Forrest McDonald's Rebuttal (1960) (0)
The Triumph of Nationalism: State Sovereignty, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of the Constitution. By William P. Murphy. (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1967. viii + 434 pp. Bibliographical note and index. $10.00.) (1969) (0)
Ratification in States Generally Opposed to the Constitution (2017) (0)
Bibliography for Secessionist Papers (2016) (0)
Ne Philosophos Audiamus: The Middle Delegates in the Constitutional Convention (1987) (0)
Book Review: The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding, by William Lee Miller (1994) (0)
A Revaluation of the Beard Thesis of the Making of the Constitution (2017) (0)
Political Factions and Geographical Areas Represented in the Convention (2017) (0)
Requiem (1988) (0)
Tench Coxe and the Early Republic by Jacob E. Cooke (1979) (0)
Debate: Nationalism or Sectionalism?. (1987) (0)
Ratification in States Divided on the Constitution (2017) (0)
The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View. By Richard K. Matthews. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1984. ix + 171 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.50.) (1985) (0)
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. By Jack N. Rakove. (New York: Knopf, 1996. xvi, 439 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-394-57858-9.) (1997) (0)
Perspectives on the Presidency and the Parties in the 1790s@@@Party and Faction in American Politics: The House of Representatives, 1789-1801.@@@The Presidency of George Washington. (1975) (0)
Splendid Misery@@@The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. (1994) (0)
This Affair of Louisiana. By Alexander DeConde. (New York: Scribner's, 1976. x + 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.50.) (1977) (0)
Economic Interpretation and the Constitution (2017) (0)

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