Eyal, Yonatan

Yonatan Eyal received his A.B. in history from Stanford University and his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University, where he studied under William Gienapp and Drew Faust. He specializes in nineteenth-century American political and intellectual history, particularly Jacksonian America and the coming of the Civil War.

Professor Eyal is the author of The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, 1828-1861 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which explores the impact of a romantic nationalist movement on the republic’s dominant antebellum political party. He has written a number of scholarly articles, reviews, and reference entries in publications such as Civil War History, the Journal of Southern History, American Nineteenth Century History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and Reviews in American History. He has held fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard. Current projects include a study of the Democratic party and an examination of the political aspects of romanticism in nineteenth-century Europe and America.

Professor Eyal teaches introductory American history courses, as well as more advanced classes on the American Revolution, the era of the Civil War, the Old South, and the Gilded Age. In 2009 he received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Toronto Students’ Association.