David L. Preston
Assistant Professor

Office: 424-A Capers Hall
Phone: 843-953-5357
e-mail: david.preston@citadel.edu

David L. Preston specializes in early American history and American Indian history. He earned his B.A. from Mary Washington College in 1994, and his M.A. in 1997 and Ph.D. in 2002 from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is currently revising his book manuscript, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1780, for publication. He is the author of an essay on settler-Indian relations in the 18th-century Pennsylvania in Daniel K. Richter and William B. Pencak's From Native America to Penn's Woods: Essays on Pennsylvanians, Indians, and the Construction of Culture, 1682-1800 (forthcoming, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004).

Dr. Preston's teaching interests include colonial North America, the American Revolution, American Indian history, and frontier/western history. A former historian in the National Park Service, Dr. Preston also maintains an interest in public history and regularly teaches with historic sites. At the College of William and Mary, he offered a seminar entitled "Remembering the American Revolution: Memory, History, and the Public." Through a DoE Teaching American History Grant (TAHG) organized by the College of William and Mary, the National Park Service, and school districts in Virginia, he will be leading seminars for middle and high school history teachers on American history from 2003-2004.

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