Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land
Tyson Reeder
Tyson Reeder is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on early American political and constitutional history, as well as the history of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Serpent in Eden: Foreign Meddling and Partisan Politics in James Madison’s America, which was awarded the 2025 George Washington Prize and the Journal of the American Revolution’s 2024 Book of the Year Award. He also authored Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of Revolution and numerous articles and book chapters. He is also the editor of The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Before joining BYU, he was an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, where he worked as an editor of the Papers of James Madison.