L H RoperL. H. Roper is a professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz and cogeneral editor of the Journal of Early American History. His most recent publications are Advancing Empire: English Interest and Overseas Expansion, 1613-168 and The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley, a volume for which he as a coeditor. Roper was a 2015 winner of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship or Creative Work. Read More Read Less