Scott Sowerby is a Canadian historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History, Northwestern University.
He was awarded a PhD from Harvard University in 2006. His book Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution was awarded the Royal Historical Society's The Whitfield Prize and was shortlisted for Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.[1] The book is about James II of England's allies in repealing penal laws against religious minorities (such as the Dissenters and Catholics), a group Sowerby labels the Repealers.
Works
- Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2013).