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Benjamin L. Carp

Benjamin L. Carp

Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He is the author of 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.

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Crime and Justice, Critical Thinking, Law, Slavery and Indentured Servitude, The War Years (1775-1783) February 9, 2023 February 9, 2023

Two Encounters: Captain Abraham Van Dyck, the “Negro Man,” and Prince Pitkin

Captain Abraham Van Dyck of New York faced military justice twice during the Revolutionary War: first by the British for burning his hometown, and…

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Food & Lifestyle March 10, 2014 August 28, 2016

Walking the Streets
of the Revolutionary City

This article was originally published in Journal of the American Revolution, Vol. 1 (Ertel Publishing, 2013). It was a day of mourning all across…

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Prewar Conflict (<1775) November 12, 2013 August 28, 2016

7 Myths about the Boston Tea Party

1. MYTH: The Tea Act imposed a tax on American colonists (which is why tax protestors often revere the Boston Tea Party). BUSTED: The…

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