Backcountry Wheat, Global Markets, and the Rise of Baltimore, 1765–1775 Available to Purchase

RICHARD K. MACMASTER earned a doctorate in history from Georgetown University in 1968. His first teaching job was at Western Carolina University, where he introduced a course in African American history in 1969. He subsequently taught at James Madison University. His research and writings have focused on eighteenth-century America, commerce, immigration, and religion in Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake. He served as a consultant for the Ulster-American Folk Park, a museum of immigration in Northern Ireland. He coedited The Journal of Scotch-Irish Studies. He has been coordinator of Gainesville’s Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice since 2010. Still affiliated with the History Department, he teaches at the University of Florida Institute for Learning in Retirement classes and is at work on a book about the English port of Whitehaven.