Editor’s note: This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
The University of West Florida will mark Constitution Day this year with a lecture from Dr. Jane E. Calvert, a historian and award-winning author who is the nation’s leading expert on John Dickinson. Calvert is the founding director of the John Dickinson Writings Project and the author of “Penman of the Founding” (Oxford, 2024), the first complete biography of Dickinson. Ahead of her appearance in Pensacola, she spoke with WUWF about Dickinson’s legacy and what it means for American democracy today.
T.S. Strickland: Many listeners may not be familiar with John Dickinson. Who was he, and why is he sometimes called the “Penman of the Revolution”?…