Joyce Appleby, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1993, is professor emerita of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books, including “Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England” (1978), winner of the Berkshire Prize, “Capitalism and a New Social Order” (1984), “Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination” (1992), and “A Restless Past: History and the American Public” (2005).