Andrew O’Shaughnessy is Vice President of Monticello, the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). His most recent book The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013) received eight national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, and the Society of Military History Book Prize. He is a co-editor of Old World, New World. America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010) and a co-editor of the Jeffersonian America series published by the University of Virginia Press. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American History.
2014 George Washington Book Prize Winner - Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
American Revolution and the Fate of the British Empire (CSPAN 2015)
The Men Who Lost America with Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy (2013)
"The British Surrender at Yorktown"
O’Shaughnessy was a finalist inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, worth $50,000, was awarded on March 17, 2014, in New York City. Finalists for the prize read selections from their books prior to the announcement of the winner. Watch Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy at a recent book talk in Kansas City (June, 2013)
Interview on Bookman's Corner
Arts & Letters Book Discussion & Review: The Men Who Lost America
Andrew Jackson O'Shaugnessy on Thomas Jefferson and George III in 2004
Audio Interviews