ALF J. MAPP, JR. AUTHOR, HISTORIAN, LECTURER. Eminent Scholar Emeritus and Louis I. Jaffe Professor Emeritus, Old Dominion University, 1992- . Eminent Scholar (endowed rank), 1989-1992. Eminent Professor (endowed rank), 1982-1989. Louis I. Jaffe Professor (endowed chair), 1990-1992. Old Dominion University faculty, 1961-1992 (teaching English, journalism, creative writing, history, and interdisciplinary course in western civilization). Frequently interviewed on radio and televesion both by indiviual stations and on coast-to-coast networks. AUTHOR OF TEN BOOKS: The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America’s Founders Really Believed, Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford, England September 2003. Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England and America’s Founding, Madison Books, Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford, England November 1998. Bed of Honor (Novel), 1996. Authors Guild Backinprint, 2000. Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim, Madison Books, Lanham, MD, New York, and London, 1991, 1993, 1994. (Featured selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club). Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, Madison Books, Lanham, MD, New York, and London, 1987, 1989, 1993. (Featured selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club; one of “Forty Best Books of 1987”). The Golden Dragon: Alfred the Great and His Times, Open Court, La Salle, 1974, 1975, 1980; Madison Books, Lanham, MD, New York, and London, 1987. Just One Man, Dietz, Richmond, 1968 America Creates Its Own Literature, Rand McNally, Chicago, 1967 (used as a text in 50 states). Frock Coats and Epaulets: Psychological Portraits of Confederate Military and Political Leaders, A.S. Barnes, New York, and Thomas Yoselef, London, 1963; Encore edition, New York, 1971; (revised) Hamilton Press, Lanham, MD, New York, and London, 1986; Madison Books, Lanham, MD, New York, and London, 1990; (revised), 1996. The Virginia Experiment, The Old Dominion’s Role in the Making of America, Dietz, Richmond, 1957, (revised) Open Court, La Salle, 1974, (revised) Hamilton Press, Lanham, MD, New York, and London, 1987. CO-AUTHOR: Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution, Cornell Maritime Press, 1981. Constitutionalism: Founding and Future, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 1989. Constitutionalism and Human Rights: America, Poland, and France, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 1991. Portsmouth: A Pictorial History (with Ramona H. Mapp), The Donning Company, 1989. Great American Presidents, Miller Center, University of Virginia, 1995.

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