Nicholas Guyatt

Nicholas Guyatt (born 1973) is a British historian and author and a professor of North American history at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Career Guyatt studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in English and a MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History. He did his doctorate at Princeton University under Daniel T. Rodgers where he received a Ph.D. in history.

Selected bibliography

Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (2007), a historical study of American ideas of providential nationalism. Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (2016). The Hated Cage (2024), about US prisoners in Dartmoor Prison during the War of 1812.