Andrew Jackson O'ShaughnessyFRHS (born 1959) is an academic historian and professor of history at the University of Virginia.[1] Between 2003 and 2022, he was Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.[2][3]
O'Shaughnessy is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (2000). and The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), which received eight national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award.[4] It has been translated into Chinese.[5] His most recent book is The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021).[6]
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, O'Shaughnessy is co-editor of Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson (2010), The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University (2019), and The European Friends of the American Revolution (2023). He is a general editor of the Jeffersonian American Series, published by the University of Virginia Press.
^O'Shaugh, Andrew. "Professor". UVA. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
^O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson (April 2021). The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University. University of Virginia Press. ISBN9780813946481.
^Ron Charles (23 May 2014). "O'Shaughnessy's 'Men Who Lost America' wins $50,000 George Washington Book Prize". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
^"Book Awards - The Society for Military History".
^Schuessler, Jennifer (5 March 2014). "Book on Losing British Generals Wins American History Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
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