Robert P. Watson (born 1962)Birth date from Library of Congress, credited to data sheet from The President's Wives is an American political scientist and a historian of US politics, and the author of several books on US political and military history. Watson holds the titles Distinguished Professor of American History, Avron Fogelman Research Professor, and Assistant Director of the Center for Citizenship and Civility at Lynn University in Florida.
Education Watson holds a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech, a master's degree from the University of West Florida, and a Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University. He was a member of the football and track teams at Virginia Tech and has been inducted into two sports halls of fame.
Career Watson held positions at Troy University, Northern Arizona University, the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, and Florida Atlantic University, before joining the faculty of Lynn University in 2007. He has won several Distinguished Teacher of the Year awards in his career. He also taught with the Junior Statesman Foundation at Yale, Stanford, and Georgetown, and served as a visiting scholar at several universities in the US.
Books Watson is the author of books, including: The Presidents' Wives: Reassessing the Office of the First Lady (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000; 2nd ed., 2014)Reviews of The Presidents' Wives:
MaryAnne Borrelli, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Margaret Flanagan, Booklist, Myra G. Gutin, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Rhonda Kinney, Perspectives on Political Science, Laura Van Assendelft, White House Studies, First Ladies of the United States: A Biographical Dictionary (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001) Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012)Review of Affairs of State: Bryn Upton, The Historian, America's First Crisis: The War of 1812 (SUNY Press, 2014)Reviews of America's First Crisis:
Gregg French, H-Net, Daniel P. Murphy, The Journal of American Culture, Stuart L. Butler, On Point, The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II (Hachette Books, 2016)Reviews of The Nazi Titanic:
John Howard Oxley, Warship International, The Columbus Dispatch, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution (Hachette Books, 2017)Reviews of The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn:
Jon Ault, H-Net, Woody Holton, The Historian, John Howard Oxley, Warship International, George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital and Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2021)Reviews of George Washington’s Final Battle: Carl Abbott, The Journal of American History, Bob Arnebeck, Washington History, Molly Nebiolo, Journal of the Early Republic, Escape! The Story of the Confederacy's Infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's Largest Jail Break (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) America's First Plague: The Deadly 1793 Epidemic that Crippled a Young Nation (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)Reviews of America's First Plague:
Fergus M. Bordewich, "‘America’s First Plague’ Review: Attack of the Yellow Jack", Wall Street Journal, Dennis Cornfield, Medical History Society of New Jersey, When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes (Georgetown University Press, 2023) Rebels at the Gates (Bloomsbury, 2025) Declaration: The Story of America’s Independence (Bloomsbury, 2026)
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