Denver Alexander Brunsman

Denver Brunsman is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at George Washington University, where he writes and teaches on the politics and social history of the American Revolution, early American republic, and British Atlantic world. His courses include “George Washington and His World,” taught annually at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate. He is the award-winning author of George Washington and His World: Enslaver, Revolutionary, President (2026) and The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2013), co-author of a leading U.S. history textbook, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, 7th edn. (2016; 2020), and co-editor of The American Revolution Reader (2014), among other publications. He is the co-director of the Albert H. Small Normandy Institute at GW and frequently leads K-12 professional development programs for organizations such as Humanities Texas, the George Washington Teacher Institute at Mount Vernon, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.