Writing
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Scholarly Writing #8: Macaulay’s Final Legacy: Education as the Practical Realization of Moral and Political Thought
Letters on Education (1790) acts as the culmination of Catharine Macaulay’s moral philosophy, historical thought, and vision of political liberty
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Scholarly Writing #6: Perspectives on Macaulay: Authority, Image, and the Politics of Reputation
How did Catharine Macaulay become both celebrated and controversial? An exploration of how her public image made, and unmade, her reputation
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Scholarly Writing #5: Between Correspondence and Action: Macaulay and the American Republic
Catharine Macaulay influenced American republicanism through transatlantic letters and her 1784–85 U.S. visit, combining historical insight with political engagement
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Scholarly Reflection #4: Catharine Macaulay and the American Project
Catharine Macaulay viewed America as both a testing ground for republican ideals and a lens for criticizing Britain’s political decline
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Scholarly Writing #3: Macaulay’s Refutation of Hobbes
Why Catharine Macaulay believed Thomas Hobbes was wrong about monarchy — and what she proposed instead
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Scholarly Writing #2, Part 2: Liberty Embodied: The Iconography of Catharine Macaulay and Phillis Wheatley
How images of Catharine Macaulay and Phillis Wheatley reveal the politics of liberty, race, and classical tradition in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world
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Scholarly Writing #2, Part 1: Liberty in Print: The Political Philosophy of Macaulay’s History, Volumes II and III
How Catharine Macaulay turned the story of Charles I of England and the English Civil War into a powerful argument for liberty and popular rights
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Scholarly Writing #1: The Opening Lines of Macaulay’s History
A close look at how Catharine Macaulay framed liberty, classical history, and republican virtue in the opening of her History of England