Dr. Tyson Reeder is an expert in early U.S. foreign relations and state building. He is an assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia where he serves as an editor with the Papers of James Madison. He is the author of Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution and the editor of the Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations. He is currently writing a book called Foreign Intrigues: James Madison, Party Politics, and Foreign Meddling in Early America. Dr. Reeder was a Program in Early American Economy and Society Fellow at the Library Company in 2013.

This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, June 25, 2020.