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Adam Burns
Adam Burns is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of American Imperialism: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783–2013 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), The United States, 1865–1920: Reuniting a Nation (Routledge, 2020) and William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire (University of Tennessee Press, 2020). This article forms part of Adam’s most recent research project, which explores US sporting culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His article on the transnational origins of American rugby (and football) was published ahead of print in Sport History Review in March 2021. He is currently preparing a co-edited volume with Dr Rivers Gambrell provisionally entitled Sports and the American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump for Edinburgh University Press’s ‘New Perspectives on the American Presidency’ series.
Contact: Department of History, Politics and War Studies, Mary Seacole Building, University of Wolverhampton, Nursery Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1AD, UK.