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Steve Pincus is Bradford Durfee Professor of History and Professor of International and Area Studies at Yale. His most recent book is 1688: The First Modern Revolution. He is currently completing a history of the Declaration of Independence in its imperial context. He is a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers for 2014-2015.
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