Robert P. Watson is a professor, author, historian, frequent media commentator, and former candidate for the United States House of Representatives.
Books in order of publication:
Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)
America’s First Crisis: The War of 1812 (SUNY Press, 2014)
The Presidents’ Wives: The Office of the First Lady in US Politics, 2nd edition (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014)
The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II (Da Capo Press, 2016)
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution (Da Capo Press, 2017)
George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital and Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2021)
Escape! The Story of the Confederacy’s Infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War’s Largest Jail Break (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
When Washington Burned (Georgetown University Press) – 2022
America’s First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Epidemic that Crippled a Young Nation – 2023
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