About the Author

Thomas Agostini

Thomas Agostini received his PhD in early American and British history from Lehigh University. He has held fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, the University of Michigan’s Clements Library at Ann Arbor, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Now a professor at South Georgia State College, he resides in Savannah’s famed historic district and has a key to the city’s greatest coffee shop: Gallery Espresso.

“Sons, Not Bastards” is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press by the Fall of 2027.