Dr. Richard A. Samuelson

Assistant Professor 

E-Mail: rsamuels@csusb.edu
Phone: (909)-537-7508
Fax: (909)-537-7645

Education

PhD, University of Virginia (2000)
MA, University of Virginia (1995)
BA, Bates College (1992)

Areas of Specialization

Colonial America
Revolutionary America
U.S., Early Republic
Political, Constitutional, Intellectual History

Courses Offered

America to 1877
Colonial America to 1783
The Evolution of American Democracy, 1783 to 1840

Publications

“Jefferson and Religion: Private Belief and Public Policy,” to appear in the Cambridge Companion to Jefferson

The Political Writings of James Otis, edited volume to be published by Liberty Fund.

 Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States and Discourses on Davila, by John Adams. Edited volumes to be published by Liberty Fund.

“An Empire Divided By Common Sense: the Paine-Hanway Argument,” in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Henry Clark, ed., AMS Press.

 John Adams and the Republic of Laws,” History of American Political Thought, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003), 114-131.

 The Real Education of Henry Adams,” The Public Interest, Spring, 2002, pp. 86-102.

 "The Constitutional Sanity of James Otis: Resistance Leader and Loyal Subject," The Review of Politics, Summer, 1999, pp. 493-523.

Current Research
Interests
and Projects

Dr. Samuelson is currently working on various projects in American political and constitutional thought.  In particular, he is working on various aspects of the intellectual history of the Adams family of Massachusetts, between the American Revolution and the early twentieth century. He is currently completing a manuscript on John Adams’ political thought: John Adams and the Republic of Laws. 

He is also working on a second book-length project: The Problem of Empire and the Language of Modern Politics, which explores constitutional development in America, Britain, and Ireland between 1763 and 1801.