Lawrence A. PeskinLawrence A. Peskin is Professor of History at Morgan State University. He is a leading scholar of the early national United States in international context, with a focus on the Mediterranean world. He is the author of Captives and Countrymen: BarbarySlavery and the American Public 1785–1816 (2009) and co-author of America and the World: Culture, Commerce, Conflict (2011). Read More Read Less