The Limits of Liberalism: William E. Leuchtenburg and American History in the Public Realm
Daniel Scroop
Daniel Scroop is a historian of the United States based at the University of Glasgow in Scotland where he is Director of Research for the School of Humanities and a member of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies. He writes on the New Deal, American liberalism, and the shifting ideological contours of U.S. history, and is author of Mr Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal, and the Making of Modern American Politics, the first book-length study of Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign manager. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a winner of the Constance Rourke Prize of the American Studies Association, and a recipient of the Walter Hines Page Fellowship at the National Humanities Center.
Scroop completed his undergraduate and postgraduate level studies at the University of Oxford, where her earned his B.A. in 1995 and his D.Phil in 2001.
During spring 2026, he is a Fulbright Scholar at Emory and Henry University in south-west Virginia, where he is teaching and writing on the place of history in American public life since 1776.