Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Education

• Ph.D. Brown University
• M.A. Tufts University
• B.A. Connecticut College

Teaching and Research Interests

• Early American Republic
• History of Capitalism

Work in Progress

My research focuses on the early national United States, particularly the confluence of economic interests, diplomacy, domestic politics, and military power. My new book project, tentatively titled “The Miranda Affair: A Venezuelan Patriot and the United States,” examines the role of investors, laborers, and federal officials in an
attempted rebellion in the Spanish Empire in the early nineteenth century.

I am also working on a comprehensive history of the American firearms industry from the Revolution to the Civil War. I am a book reviews editor for the Journal of the Early Republic and a member of the steering committee for The Ohio Seminar in Early American History and Culture.

I enjoy advising and working with graduate and undergraduate students on projects related to early American history and the history of capitalism.

Courses Taught

• HST 111 Survey of U.S. History I
• AMS/HST 362 Era of the American Revolution
• AMS/HST 363 The Early American Republic, 1783-1815
• Senior Capstone: Histories of American Capitalism
• HST 670 Colloquium: Capitalism

Selected Publications

Books

• Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism (The University of Chicago Press, 2023)
• Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776-1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)

Articles

• “A Brief History of the History of Capitalism, and a New American Variety,” and “A Response to the
  Comments on Martial Capitalism,” Enterprise & Society, Volume 25, No. 1 (March 2024): 2-26;
  54-59.
• Co-authored with Robert C. Ford, "When government is the solution: creating the arms industry in the
  Connecticut River Valley in the 1800s,” Journal of Management History, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print (March 2024): 20pp. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMH-11-2023-0122
• “Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Political Economy of the Nullification Crisis,” Journal of Southern History,
  Vol. 89, No. 3 (August 2023): 453-482.
• “ ‘Confidence’: Private Correspondence in Daniel Parker’s War Department, 1811-1846,” Journal of the Early Republic 41 (Spring 2021): 39-68.
• “The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Exceptionalism: 250 Years of Bostonian Political Economy and Culture,” The New England Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 2 (Jun. 2020): 238-245
• “Guns for the Government: Ordnance, the Military ‘Peacetime Establishment,’ and Executive Governance in the Early Republic,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 34, no. 1 (April 2020): 132-147.
• A New Constitutionality for Gun Regulation, 46 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 523, 530 (2019).
• “Print-your-own gun debate ignores how the US government long provided and regulated firearms,” The Conversation, (August 2018).
• “Industrial Manifest Destiny: American Firearms Manufacturing and Antebellum Expansion,” Business History Review 92.1 (Spring 2018): 57–83.
• “The World’s Best Carpets: Erastus Bigelow and the Financing of Antebellum Innovation,” Technology & Culture 59, no. 1 (January 2018): 126-151.
• “Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790-1840,” Enterprise & Society, Vol. 17, Issue 4 (December 2016): 721-733.
• “Schemers, Dreamers, and a Revolutionary Foreign Policy: New York City in the Era of Second Independence, 1805-1815,” New York History 94/3-4 (Summer/Fall 2013): 267-282.
• “From Discontented Bostonians to Patriotic Industrialists: The Boston Associates and the Transcontinental Treaty, 1790-1825,” New England Quarterly 84 (September 2011): 377-401.

Selected Grants and Awards

• George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Fellowship, 2023-2024
• Richard & Mary Jo Marsh Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, 2023-2024
• Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2019
• Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History, Colonial Society, for "From Discontented Bostonians to Patriotic Industrialists: The Boston Associates and the Transcontinental Treaty, 1790-1825," 2011
• Program on the Study of Capitalism Research Fellowship, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University, May-December 2013
• Hazeltine Fellowship for Graduate Research in Entrepreneurship, The C.V. Starr Program in Business, Entrepreneurship and Organizations, Brown University, 2014-15
• Karen B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2014-15
• Fellowship, Program in Early American Economy and Society, Library Company, Philadelphia PA, Spring Semester 2015-16
• Huntington Library, Robert L. Middlekauff Fellowship, 2017-2018