Ronald Hoffman

Ron Hoffman died on September 4, 2018. He served as director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture from 1992 through 2013, and is known for his work as an author and editor of the papers of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the first three volumes of which appeared under the title Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations of Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America (2001). The work won the Maryland Historical Society Book Prize and the J. Franklin Jameson Award from the American Historical Association.