Dr. Ed Gray (APS-NEH Sabbatical Fellowship) Ed Gray has taught early American history at Florida State University since 1999. He served as department chair from Fall of 2013 through summer of 2022. His books include New World Babel: Languages and Nations in Early America (1999); The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler (2007); and Thomas Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States (2016). He recently completed America's Great Divide: The Mason-Dixon Line, from the Colonial Era to the Civil War, to be published by Harvard University Press. He is also, with Jane Kamensky, co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution (2012). Ed's work has been supported by fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library, the Andrew Mellon Foundation/Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Florida State University College of Arts & Sciences.
Ed will be using his NEH Sabbatical Fellowship to conduct research for a new book project, Benjamin Franklin's Money: A Financial Life of the First American.
Research Project: "Benjamin Franklin's Money: A Financial Life of the First American"