About Stuart Leibiger
Stuart Leibiger is professor and chair of the History Department at La Salle University. He received his BA from the University of Virginia and his MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book, Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 1999. He has written numerous articles on the Founders for newspapers and for historical magazines, journals, and encyclopedias, and has been a historical consultant for television documentaries and museums. He has worked on the editorial staffs of the Papers of George Washington and the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. He has taught Teacher Workshops in sixteen states* and Washington, D.C. A former Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, he edited A Companion to James Madison and James Monroe, published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013. In 2015, he won the George Washington Memorial Award, a lifetime achievement award for the study of George Washington given annually by the George Washington Masonic Memorial Association in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2016, he received La Salle University’s Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. His book The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was published by ABC-Clio in 2019. (leibiger@lasalle.edu)
*Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.