Dr Daniel Peart

My research focuses on the relationship between Americans and their government in the early United States. My first book, Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic, explores the diversity of American democracy during this formative period for the young nation. My second book, Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816-1861, investigates the origins of lobbying and its role in the making of federal trade policy. I'm currently working on a new project on the Speakers of the US House of Representatives, which examines the role of this understudied office in the legislative history of the republic up to the American Civil War.

• Lobbyists and the Making of U.S. Tariff Policy, 1816-1861 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) - Honourable Mention in the BAAS Book Prize 2019
• 'System, Process, Agency, and Contingency in the Study of Antebellum Policymaking: The Tariff of 1846', Journal of the Civil War Era (link is external) (June, 2017).
• '"The Almighty Dollar": 2016 and the Long History of Lobbying', Common-Place 16 (link is external) (Summer, 2016).
• Practicing Democracy: Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War (link is external), co-edited with Dr. Adam I. P. Smith (University of Virginia Press, 2015).
• Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early (link is external) Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2014).
• "Looking Beyond Parties and Election: The Making of United States Tariff Policy during the Early 1820s", Journal of the Early Republic 33 (link is external) (Spring, 2013): 87-108. 

Editorial Positions 

• Editorial board of Reviews in History (link is external)