Prof. Robert M.S. McDonald Professor of History Co-Director - American Foundations minor History robert.mcdonald [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Robert M. S. McDonald is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, where he has taught since 1998. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the University of Oxford, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his research and writing focuses on the American Revolution and Early Republic. He lives with his family in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. Ph.D. - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillM.St. - University of OxfordM.A. - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillB.A. - University of Virginia Research Interests American Revolution, Early American Republic Current Research Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, George Washington Selected Publications Ed. (with Peter S. Onuf), Revolutionary Prophecies: The Founders and America's Future (University of Virginia Press, 2021).Ed., The American Revolution: Core Documents (Ashbrook Press, 2019).Ed., Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History (University of Virginia Press, 2019).Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time (University of Virginia Press, 2016).Ed., Sons of the Father: George Washington and His Protégés (University of Virginia Press, 2013).Ed., Light and Liberty: Thomas Jefferson and the Power of Knowledge (University of Virginia Press, 2012).Ed., Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point (University of Virginia Press, 2004).