Andrew O’Shaughnessy is the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylania Press, 2000) and The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven:Yale University Press, 2013).