John McCurdy, Ph.D.

Professor of History | Eastern Michigan University

John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University where he teaches early America, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of _Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States_ (Cornell UP, 2009) and _Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution_ (Cornell UP, 2019). He is currently completing a book on a case of male-male intimacy in the British army in the 1770s as a way of connecting LGBTQ+ to the American Revolution. The book is tentatively titled _Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality on Trial in Revolutionary America_ and will be out from Johns Hopkins University Press in June 2024.

Oct. 22, 2024

Episode 11: The Resistance

With the Stamp Act defeated, the Sons of Liberty in New York City celebrate by raising a Liberty Pole in tribute to George III, William Pitt, and Liberty, provoking a violent confrontation with British soldiers quartered in …

Guests: Shira Lurie, Ph.D. , Wendy Bellion, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Jon Kukla, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Brad A. Jones, Ph.D. , Adam Smith, Ph.D. , Mills Kelly, Ph.D. , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D.

Nov. 14, 2023

Episode 3: The Triumph

Following three years of stinging defeats in the Seven Years' War, the British begin to turn the tide against the French in North America in no small measure because Indigenous peoples decided the war should end. Featuring:…

Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Matthew Dziennik, Ph.D. , Serena Zabin, Ph.D. , Julie Flavell, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Emmanuel Dubois , Alexandre Rios-Bordes, Ph.D. , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Michael Newton, Ph.D. , Daniel Howlett

Oct. 18, 2023

Episode 2: The Nadir

Following the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British and French begin mobilizing for war and appoint commanders-in-chief to lead the war effort, only to clash with colonists over how power, authority,…

Guests: Fred Anderson, Ph.D. , Katherine Carté, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Emmanuel Dubois , Alexandre Rios-Bordes, Ph.D. , Hayley Madl , John McCurdy, Ph.D. , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Spencer McBride, Ph.D. , Nate Sleeter, Ph.D. , Alexandra Krebs, Ph.D.