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Peter Charles Hoffer

Author of Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin


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Peter Charles Hoffer is a distinguished research professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Sensory Worlds in Early America, Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775, and John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850. — biography from Law and People in Colonial America… (more)
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Works by Peter Charles Hoffer
Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and… 133 copies, 1 review
The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History 61 copies
Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History 57 copies
Law and People in Colonial America 54 copies
Cry Liberty: The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739 (New Narratives… 49 copies
The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law 43 copies
The Brave New World: A History of Early America 37 copies
The Supreme Court: An Essential History 31 copies, 1 review
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr 31 copies, 1 review
The Historian's Paradox 30 copies, 1 review
Sensory Worlds in Early America 28 copies
The Devil's Disciples: The Makers of the Salem Witchcraft Trials 20 copies, 1 review
Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and New England 1558-1803 13 copies
A Nation of Laws: America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice 13 copies
Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia: Richmond County, 1710/11-1754… 13 copies
Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities 12 copies
Reading and Writing American History, An Introduction to the Historian's… 12 copies
When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment,… 12 copies
The Abortion Rights Controversy in America: A Legal Reader (Editor) 10 copies
Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the… 10 copies
Uncivil Warriors: The Lawyers' Civil War 9 copies
Reading and Writing American History, An Introduction to the Historian's… 9 copies
Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp Act Protests to Parliament, 1766… 8 copies
The Law's Conscience: Equitable Constitutionalism in America (Thornton H.… 8 copies
Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775 (Witness to… 8 copies
Impeachment in America, 1635-1805 7 copies
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel 7 copies
For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution… 6 copies
The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second Edition 5 copies
Rutgers v. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for… 4 copies
Reading and Writing American History 4 copies, 1 review
Litigation Nation: A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America (American… 4 copies
The Federal Courts: An Essential History 4 copies
Homage to New England : selected articles on early New England history,… 3 copies
American patterns of life : selected articles on the provincial period of… 3 copies
Zombie History: Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die 2 copies
An Empire takes shape : selected articles on the origins of the old… 2 copies
The Marrow of American Divinity ~ Selected Articles on Colonial Religion 2 copies
Seward's Law: Country Lawyering, Relational Rights, and Slavery 2 copies
The Peopling of a World: Selected Articles on Immigration and Settlement… 2 copies
Other Worlds: Slave Revolts and Religious Awakenings 1 copy
General Studies, The College Network, American History 1: Early… 1 copy
The Clamor of Lawyers: The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal… 1 copy
The Stresses of empire : selected articles on the British Empire in the… 1 copy
Africans become Afro-Americans : selected articles on slavery in the… 1 copy
Puritans and Yankees : selected articles on New England colonial history,… 1 copy
The Context of colonization : selected articles on Britain in the era of… 1 copy
Planters and yeomen : selected articles on the southern colonies 1 copy
Indians and Europeans : selected articles on Indian-white relations in… 1 copy
A Rage for liberty : selected articles on the immediate causes of the… 1 copy
Commerce and community : selected articles on the Middle Atlantic colonies 1 copy
The Pace of change : selected articles on politics and society in… 1 copy
A Nation in the womb of time : selected articles on the long-term causes… 1 copy
New England rediscovered : selected articles on New England colonial… 1 copy
Federal Courts: An Essential History 1 copy
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Hoffer, Peter Charles
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1944-08-03
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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University of Rochester (AB | 1965 | summa cum laude)
Harvard University (MA | 1966)
Harvard University (PhD | 1970)
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