Robert Guy

Robert Guy is a historian and Director of the Becoming America nonprofit educational initiative. For twenty-five years, he has helped present the traveling William Thompson: Forgotten Patriot exhibit and has devoted extensive research to the people and communities of early America. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, where he was the Hugh Mercer Scholar, and an M.A. in American History from Slippery Rock University. His publications on the American Revolution include Perhaps Never to Return, Hold the Old Speeches, and articles examining Pennsylvania’s frontier and Revolutionary experience. Guy’s work focuses particularly on overlooked personalities, the diverse communities of the American interior, and the ways their experiences contributed to the formation of the United States.