The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States

Nicholas Guyatt was educated at Cambridge and Princeton, where he received his PhD in History. He taught at Princeton, Simon Fraser University, and the University of York before taking up his current post at Cambridge in 2014. He is the author of seven books, including Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (2016), The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison (2022) and, with co-author Christa Dierksheide, Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Fatherâs Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery.(2026).