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Acknowledgments

Portions of this project were presented at the Bucknell University English Department and Faculty Colloquium, the University of Florida English Department’s Americanists’ Colloquium, the Aaron Burr Association, Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Research Center for Urban Cultural History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the University of Texas at Austin, Emory University, the University of Glasgow, Rutgers University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, American University in Beirut, and Tulane University. From colleagues too numerous to attempt to list here—they include faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates—we received generous and thoughtful suggestions and insights, essential to the growth of this project, and all through a time of widespread institutional austerity. We thank student assistants Emily Anderson, Deanna Koretsky, and Stephanie Scherer for their hard work. We owe our thanks, as well, to University of Florida students in ENG 3011 and AML 6017 and Bucknell University students in ENG 306. A version of chapter 2 appeared as “Secret Witness, or the Fantasy Structure of US Republicanism,” in Early American Literature 44.2 (2009): 333–63. We thank the anonymous reviewers, David Shields, departing from the journal’s editorship, and Sandra Gustafson, entering, for their help. A portion of chapter 4 appeared as “The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature,” in A Companion to African American Literature, ed. Gene Jarrett, 59–74 (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). We are grateful to Gene for his suggestions and encouragement. We are grateful, too, at NYU Press, to the series editors, Priscilla Wald, David Kazanjian, and Elizabeth McHenry, as well as to Eric Zinner and Alicia Nadkarni.

The Traumatic Colonel began with a conversation in October of 2005. Since then, we have worked in fits and starts, time permitting, with hours on the phone, hundreds of emails, conversations with friends, and above all the tremendous patience and support of loved ones. We acknowledge a few personal ties, those who understand that there are a lot of facets to this, a lot of interested parties: Jim Lavine, Kevin Daly, Daniel Juan Gil, Ed Cahill, Duncan Faherty, and Molly Rothenberg. Ed is especially grateful to Amisha Sharma, who appreciated this very complicated case—a lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous. He cannot adequately thank her for making this come together. Michael wishes to thank his children, Hannah, Mariah, and Caleb for a few quiet hours, and most especially Kimberley—getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it.