David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair (2012-14, 2015-16) of the Department of History at Harvard University. Among his fifteen books are The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Harvard University Press, 2007), Foundations of Modern International Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, with Jo Guldi, The History Manifesto (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His latest book, Civil War: A History in Ideas, appeared in 2016 from Alfred A. Knopf. He completed an edition of John Locke's colonial writings and co-edited, with Jennifer Pitts, a collection of essays on the law of nations in global history, both for Oxford University Press.