More exciting news!
I haven’t been updating the blog very much, for which I apologize! But there have still been some exciting things going on.
I had a wonderful talk at Mount Vernon, which you can watch via that link.
I also had a great exchange at the CUNY Graduate Center, hosted by the Early American Republic Seminar, with David Waldstreicher about our books: you can check out his The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley which has also recently come out.
The Graduate Center of CUNY interviewed me: “Who Burned New York in 1776?”
Erik Ofgang, writing for Smithsonian Magazine, asks more specifically, “Did George Washington Order Rebels to Burn New York City in 1776?”
Dozens of colleagues were recognized at the Brooklyn College Faculty Authors Reception, which is held each spring.
Along with other colleagues, I will receive an Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Achievement at Brooklyn College, at a ceremony at the end of the Annual Faculty Day Conference this week.
And there is more to come! Upcoming talks:
May 18 (Thursday), 6:30 pm, In Person, “Lost Stories: How the New York City Fire of 1776 Illuminates Unfamiliar Lives of the American Revolution,” sponsored by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Fraunces Tavern, New York. Please register using the link!
May 22, 7:30 pm (Monday), In Person, “The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution,” American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia, Montgomery, PA (arrive an hour early for food and drink)
May 23 (Tuesday), 6 pm, In Person and Online, “The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Tale of the American Revolution,” General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York in partnership with the New York Landmarks Conservancy, in New York (advance registration required, whether online or in person).
May 30 (Tuesday), 7 pm, Online, “Benjamin L. Carp on Urban Geographies of the American Revolution,” Richard H. Brown Seminar on the Historical Geography of the American Revolutionary Era at the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library and the American Revolutionary Geographies Online (ARGO) project. Free and open to the public. Register here!