Mary A. Y. Gallagher

Adjunct Professor

Teaching Philosophy: Use primary sources to enrich content learning to develop analytical skills and to enhance ability of students to discuss historical issues verbally and in written form.

Areas of Specialization

Latin America, Colonial/Revolutionary Period; United States, Colonial/Revolutionary Period;
Coeditor: The Papers of Robert Morris
Senior Associate Editor: The Papers of John Jay

Books and Articles of Interest

Books:
The American Revolution: A Short History(Malabar, FL: Krieger Publishing Co., 2002)

The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784, 9vols. (Pittsburg, University of Pittsburg Press, 1973-1999)

Articles:
"Private Interest and the Public Good: Settling the Score for the Morris-Holker Business Relationship: 1778-1790," Pennsylvania History Vol. 69, No. 2 (Spring, 2002), 179-209

"Charting a New Course for the China Trade: The Late 18th-Century Model," The American Neptune, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Summer, 1997), 201-217, republished in The Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States, William S. Dudley and Michael J. Crawford, eds., (Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2001)

"Reinterpreting the 'very trifling mutiny' at Philadelphia in 1783," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, CXIX, Nos. 1/2 (January/April, 1995), 3-35

Works in Progress
The Papers of John Jay
Other Interests

Peru during pre-Independence and Independence Periods: administrative reforms, church-state relations; nuns.

American Revolution and early national period: political, diplomatic, naval, and administrative history.

 

 

Contacts
Office: PH 352 J
Phone: (718) 997-5367
mayg11210@yahoo.com

 

 

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