John E. Ferling, (1940 - ) ca. 1965-2008.

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John E. Ferling, (1940 - ) ca. 1965-2008.

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John E. Ferling, professor of history emeritus at the University of West Georgia, has authored nine books and numerous articles dealing with Colonial America. Among these books are The Loyalist Mind: Joseph Galloway and the American Revolution (1977), A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America (1980), The World Turned Upside Down (1988), The First of Men: A Life of George Washington (1988), John Adams: A Bibliography (1994), Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution (2000), A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (2003), John Adams: A Life (1992), Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (2004), and Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (2007). His book A Leap in the Dark won the Fraunces Tavern Book Award as the year's best book on the American Revolution. Dr. Ferling has also appeared in several television documentaries devoted to the American Revolution and the Early Republic. The papers in this collection begin near the outset of Ferling's teaching career at Lutcher Stark High School in Orange, Texas and extend through his teaching career at Morehead State University in Kentucky 1965-1968, West Chester State University in Pennsylvania 1970-1971, and West Georgia College (now University of West Georgia) 1971- 2004.

41 boxes; 20 linear feet.

University of West Georgia, Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library

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University of West Georgia, Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library

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