Sponsored by the American Revolution Roundtable of Richmond, Virginia, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond. Please contact these organizations for the Zoom link!

As the semiquincentennial of America’s independence approaches, we have a chance to reflect on the creation of the United States. Our nation has had debates in recent years about 1619, 1776, and whose stories we ought to teach. This talk will explore the rich possibilities for understanding the history of the American Revolution, the broad possibilities for storytelling, and the complex legacy of the Boston Tea Party and the Revolution in our own times.

Sponsored by Ledyard Public Library

December 16th marks 250 years since the Boston Tea Party, another step for the Revolutionaries, the move toward open rebellion, and eventually independence. Join the Ledyard Public Library in welcoming Historian Benjamin L. Carp as we discuss his 2011 book, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America.

This is a hybrid event
CONTACT: Matt Novosad  860-917-1618  mnovosad@ledyardlibrary.org

VIRTUAL Boston Tea Party at the 250th Anniversary

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 7:00—8:00 PM

ZOOM

Lincoln Public Library, Bedford Rd, Lincoln, MA, 01773

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773 in Boston. Bringing vividly to life the diverse array of people and places that the Tea Party brought together — from Chinese tea-pickers to English businessmen, Native American tribes, sugar plantation slaves, and Boston’s ladies of leisure — Professor Benjamin L. Carp will share with us how a determined group of New Englanders shook the foundations of the British Empire, and what this has meant for Americans since.

Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College and teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution. He also wrote Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (Yale, 2010), which won the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati in 2013, and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (Oxford, 2007). He has written about nationalism, firefighters, wet nurses, Benjamin Franklin, and Quaker merchants in Charleston, for scholarly journals like Early American Studies, Civil War History, New York History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and popular publications such as BBC History, Colonial Williamsburg, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and he previously taught at the University of Edinburgh and Tufts University.

Registration for this event opens Thursday, November 16 at 12:00 AM.