Biography Herbert Sloan, Professor of History (Barnard), specializes in early American history. He received his B.A. from Stanford (1969) and his Ph.D. from Columbia (1988). His published works include: “Hamilton’s Second Thoughts: Federalist Finance Revisited,” in Federalists Reconsidered (1999), and Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt (1995). He is presently working on a book to be entitled The Fall and Rise of Nancy Randolph.