Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond
Graeme Mack is a historian, writer, and teacher based in Virginia. Currently, Dr. Mack serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on Early America, Antebellum and Civil War America, and the American Presidency, and continues work on his book, Seaborne Sovereignties, which examines American merchants and U.S. officials' efforts to expand American commercial and political influence over strategically important spaces in the Pacific, and considers the ways in which international and multiracial labor forces that manned their vessels both disrupted and reinforced these state-business ambitions.
In addition to his Ph.D., Dr. Mack also holds a B.A. in History from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. in History from McGill University. His writing has also been featured in the Washington Post’s “Made By History” series, the Journal of San Diego History, and H-Net. Dr. Mack’s work has been supported by fellowships and grants issued by Jefferson Library (Monticello), the Huntington Library, the Virginia Academic Library Consortium, the Harvard Business School, the Tinker Foundation, the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, and the Organization of American Historians.
A brief history of former presidents running for reelection: 3 losses, 1 win and 1 still TBD
Sep 25, 2024 12:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This years presidential election has a former president, Donald Trump, running for a nonconsecutive term. Its the fifth time in U.S. history thats happened. Historically, a former president running for a nonconsecutive...