Author: Benjamin L. Carp

Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He is the author of The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2023); Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2007); Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (Yale University Press, 2010), winner of the Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize; and co-editor (with Richard D. Brown) of Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760–1791 (Cengage, 2014). His work has also appeared in Civil War History, Early American Studies, and the William and Mary Quarterly as well as BBC History, Colonial Williamsburg, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.