Benjamin Carp

"An Incendiary War: Conspiracies, Disasters, and the American Revolution, 1775-1790." Rethinking American Disasters: New Essays in Cultural, Political, and Environmental History. Ed. Cynthia A. Kierner, Matthew Mulcahy, and Liz Skilton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

"America's Road to Revolution." BBC History Revealed 107: 36-39.

"Introduction to Papers Given at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association" and "Conclusion." Decentering Early New York City's History. New York History 103.1: 1-3, 36-38.

"'The First Incendiary': A Female Firebrand and the New York City Fire of 1776." Women Waging War in the American Revolution. Ed. Holly A. Mayer. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 23-37.

"A New Low for US Democracy." BBC History Magazine 266: 10-11.

Review of Iconoclasm In New York: Revolution To Reenactment, by Wendy Bellion. Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, Jan. 9.

"'Jefferson's Embargo: National Intent and Sectional Effects." Jeffersonians in Power: The Rhetoric of Opposition Meets the Realities of Governing. Eds. Joanne B. Freeman and Johann N. Neem. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 128-47.

"Boston in 1743." The Atlas of Boston History. Ed. Nancy S. Seasholes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Review of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation's Ideals during the Revolutionary Era, by Craig Bruce Smith. American Historical Review 124.4: 1448-49.

Review of The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution, by John Buchanan. Journal of Military History 83.4: 1271-73.

"'Disreputable among civilized Nations': Destroying Homes during the Revolutionary War." Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence. Eds. Glenn A. Moots and Phillip Hamilton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 168-89.

"Declaring Independence." Revisiting the Founding Era: Readings from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Ed. Carol Berkin. New York: Gilder Lehrman Institute. 1-13.

"Homesick for the Quarterly." Uncommon Sense--The Blog, Feb. 1.

"World Wide Enough: Historiography, Imagination, and Stagecraft." Journal of the Early Republic, 37.2: 289-294.

"On Forgetting History," part of three-part feature, "What Are the Spectres that Continue to Haunt the US?" BBC World Histories 7:27.

"'Fix'd almost amongst Strangers': Charleston's Quaker Merchants and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism." William and Mary Quarterly, 74.1: 77-108.

"Birthing Pains." Review of Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth, by Holger Hoock. BBC World Histories 5: 95.

Review of Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier, by Gregory Evans Dowd. Journal of Social History 51.1: 174-75.

Review of The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution, by Robert G. Parkinson. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 125.1: 68-69.

"The 'Paradox' Paradox." Process: A Blog for American History, April 14.

"In Retrospect: Edmund S. Morgan and the Urgency of Good Leadership." Reviews in American History, March: 1-18.

"Ten Days that Made a Nation." BBC History Magazine, March: US1-US8.

"'The Unpleasing Part of the Drama': Fear, Devastation, and the Civilian Experience of the Revolutionary War." Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies. Eds. Lauric Henneton and L. H. Roper. Leiden: Brill. 284-303.

"Stamp Collection." Review of Community without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act, by Zachary McLeod Hutchins. Common-place.org 17.1.

"Ask the Author: Still a Prologue? The Stamp Act Protests at 250." Common-place. Fall.

"Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World." Notches: (Re)Marks on the History of Sexuality, Sept. 22.

"Evacuation Day: Marking the End of the Revolutionary War." We're History, Nov. 25.

Review of Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America, by Kathleen Donegan. The Historian 77.4: 786-88.

Review of Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America, by Russ Castronovo. Journal of American History 102.3: 857-58.

"A Mother's Milk or Another Mother's Milk: Colonial Debates on Breast Feeding." Colonial Williamsburg Magazine 36.1: 36-43.

Brown, Richard D. and Benjamin L. Carp. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791: Documents and Essays, 3rd ed. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Review of City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, by Carl Smith. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 44.3: 402-03.

Review of Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812, by Paul A. Gilje. H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews 15.38: 5-8.

"Seven Myths about the Boston Tea Party." Journal of the American Revolution, Nov. 12.

"Separated by a Common History: North and South in Colonial Times." Colonial Williamsburg Magazine 35.1: 55-59.

"Walking the Streets of the Revolutionary City." Journal of the American Revolution, vol. 1. Eds. Todd Andrlik, Hugh T. Harrington and Don N. Hagist. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Ertel. 14-17.

Review of No Turning Point: The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective, by Theodore Corbett. Journal of the Early Republic 33.3: 549-51.

Review of Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, by Nathaniel Philbrick. BBC History Magazine, September: 64.

"Terms of Estrangement: Who Were the Sons of Liberty?" Colonial Williamsburg Magazine 34.1: 2-7.

"Did Dutch Smugglers Provoke the Boston Tea Party?" Early American Studies 10.2: 335-59.

"Tea Act in America" and "Boston Tea Party." Reporting the Revolutionary War. Ed. Todd Andrlik. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks. 72-83.

Review of The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America, by Barbara Clark Smith. Journal of the Early Republic 32.1: 130-32.

Review of Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors, by Benjamin H. Irvin. American Historical Review 117.2: 520-21.

"Franklin and the Coming of the American Revolution." A Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Ed. David Waldstreicher. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. 146-63.

"The First American Political Movement." Review of American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People, by T.H. Breen. Reviews in American History 39.3: 421-26.

Review of A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution, rev. ed., by Marc Egnal. The Historian 73.4: 817-18.

"A Global Tea Party." BBC History Magazine 11.13: 18-23.

"Noble Patriots or Glorified Vandals?" The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 16: C2.

Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

"Preserving the Library in the Digital Age." The Readex Report 4.4.

"Nice Party, But Not So Revolutionary." Washington Post, Outlook section. April 19: B3.

"The Ghost of Tea Parties Past." OUPblog. April 23.

"The Tea Party's Appeal Across the Political Spectrum." History News Network. July 20.

"Changing Our Habitation: Henry Laurens, Rattray Green, and the Revolutionary Movement in Charleston's Domestic Spaces." Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean. Ed. David Shields. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 285-309.

"The Urban Crucible as Urban History." Re-Review of The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution, by Gary B. Nash. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113.4: 404-9.

Review of Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic, by Dell Upton. Journal of American History 96.2: 530-31.

Review of Social Change in America: From the Revolution through the Civil War, by Christopher Clark. Journal of American Studies 43.2: 361.

Review of In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation, by Francois Furstenburg. New England Quarterly 81.2: 356-58.

Review of The Politics of War; Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, by Michael A. McDonnell. Social History 33.4: 479-81.

"Crime in the City: American Revolution." OUPblog. Aug. 15.

Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

"Born in War." Review of War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts. Eds. John Resch and Walter Sargent. Reviews in American History 35.3: 351-57.

"The Night the Yankees Burned Broadway: The New York City Fire of 1776." Early American Studies 4.2: 471-511.

Review of Riot and Revelry in Early America. Eds. William Pencak, Matthew Dennis and Simon P. Newman. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 2.4: 125-27.

Review of The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, by Gary B. Nash. New York Journal of American History 66.2: 129.

"Cities in Review." Re-review of Cities in the Wilderness and Cities in Revolt, by Carl Bridenbaugh. Common-place 3.4.

"Nations of American Rebels: Understanding Nationalism in Revolutionary North America and the Civil War South." Civil War History 48.1: 5-33.

Review of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33.1: 136-37.

"Fire of Liberty: Firefighters, Urban Voluntary Culture, and the Revolutionary Movement." William and Mary Quarterly 58.4: 781-818.

Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Advisory Board.

New York Academy of History Fellow.

Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, Brooklyn College, for "The Night Broadway Burned; The New York City Fire of 1776."

PSC-CUNY Traditional B Award, for "The Night Broadway Burned: The New York City Fire of 1776." $6,000; 2020-2021.

Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, for "The Night Broadway Burned: The New York City Fire of 1776." $1,000.

PSC-CUNY Enhanced Research Award, for "The Night Broadway Burned: The New York City Fire of 1776." $10,684.50; 2018-2019.

Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize, for Defiance of the Patriots.

Archie K. Davis Fellowship, North Caroliniana Society, for current research on the Revolutionary War.

David Library of the American Revolution Fellowship, for current research on the Revolutionary War.

Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship, Society of the Cincinnati Library (Anderson House), for current research on the Revolutionary War.

Defiance of the Patriots, "Must-Read Nonfiction" selection, Massachusetts Center for the Book.

American Revolution Round Table of New York's Annual Award for Best Book on the Era of the American Revolution, for Defiance of the Patriots (2010).

Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, for "Destruction during the American Revolution."

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, for "Destruction during the American Revolution." 2005-06.

Research grant, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, for "Destruction during the American Revolution."

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Library Resident Fellowship, American Philosophical Society Library, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783." 2003-04.

Fellowship, GIlder Lehrman Institute of American History, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

W.M. Keck Foundation and Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Price Visiting Research Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Winterthur Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, for "Cityscapes and Revolution: Political Mobilization and Urban Spaces in North America, 1740-1783."

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, 1998-99.

Comment, "Imperial borderlands." Panel at "Underrepresented Voices of the American Revolution" Conrad E. Wright Research Conference. Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, July 15.

Discussant, "Revolutionary Roads: Environment, Capitalism, and Development." History Graduate Student Conference, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, April 8.

Panel judge, History, Beacon Conference, SUNY Orange Community College. Middletown, N.Y., June 3.

Panelist, Roundtable Discussion, "Talkin' about A Revolution: Communication in History and Historians Communicating," CUNY EARS Graduate Conference, New York, May 20.

Comment, "Loyalists and Their Legacy." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Philadelphia, July 15.

Panel judge, History, Beacon Conference, SUNY Westchester Community College. Valhalla, N.Y., June 4.

Panelist, "America's Revolutionary Moment: New Approaches to the Continental Army." Society for Military Historians, annual meeting. Norfolk, Va., May 23.

"Incendiaries: The Great Fire of 1776 and the Spreading Nature of Radicalism and Disaster." Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, annual conference. Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 28.

"Shaping the Patriot Story of the Fire of 1776." "Foundations of Independence: Protest and Communication in Revolutionary America, 1770 to 2020" conference, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona College. New Rochelle, N.Y., Sept. 25-26.

"The Radical Fringe of the American Revolution: Perpetrators of the New York City Fire of 1776." "Revolutions: Moments and Movements in Historical Perspective" symposium, Seton Hall University. South Orange, N.J., Feb. 7.

Chair and comment, "Decentering Early New York City's History." American Historical Association Annual Meeting. New York, Jan. 6.

"The Motley Crew and the Viper's Nest" and "Two Captive Officers and Two Fateful Encounters." Yale Early American History seminar. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 14.

"How Revising History Shaped the American Revolution" with Michael D. Hattem. New-York Historical Society. New York, Dec. 7.

"'The First Incendiary': A Female Arsonist and the New York City Fire of 1776." Sons of the American Revolution conference, "Women Waging War in the American Revolution." Philadelphia, June 15.

Chair and comment, "After the Fire: Disaster Relief, Reform, Local Power in American Cities." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Cambridge, Mass. July 19.

Comment, "Civilian Governance and Military Affairs in the American Revolution." Society for Military Historians conference. Columbus, Ohio. May 11.

"The New York City Fire of 1776: Black Arsonists and Accusers." Washington Early American Seminar, University of Maryland. College Park, Md. Sept. 28,

Chair and organizer, "Crossing Genders and Genres in Narratives of the American Revolution." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Philadelphia, July 21.

Comment, "Out of Print: Collective Violence and Orientalism in Revolutionary Era Writings." CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Graduate Conference. New York, May 12.

Roundtable panelist, "Being An Early Americanist in the Current Political Climate." CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Graduate Conference. New York, May 12.

"'History is Happening in Manhattan': A Critical Roundtable on Hamilton." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. New Haven, Conn., July 22.

"'Such Flaming Arguments': The Propaganda of Words and Deeds during the Revolutionary War." Conference on "Propaganda, Persuasion, the Press and the American Revolution, 1763-1783." Hong Kong, April 27.

Comment, "Reconsidering the Boundaries of Urban Space in the Early Republic," CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Graduate Conference. New York, May 13.

Panelist, "Chris Schmidt-Nowara In Memoriam (1966-2015): Pioneer of Atlantic Empire and Antislavery Studies." Latin American Studies Association, International Congress. New York, May 28.

"New York and the American Revolution." Grades K-12 Election Day Workshop, New-York Historical Society. New York, Nov. 8.

Author talk. Workshop session, "Teaching Three Centuries of History through MHS Collections," Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, July 13.

"The Fearsome Consequences of the American Revolution." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Raleigh, N.C., July 18.

Comment, "The Continued Costs of Conflict: War, Status, and Society in Revolution and Civil War." CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Graduate Conference. New York, May 1.

"'Disreputable among Civilized Nations': Destroying Homes during the Revolutionary War." Conference on "Was the American Revolution a Just War?" Philadelphia, Oct. 31.

"A Wilderness of Fear: Colonial Experiences of Fear and the Origins of the American Revolution." Joint Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and Society of Early Americanists Conference. Chicago, June 19.

"'The Unpleasing Part of the Drama': Fear, Devastation, and the Civilian Experience of the Revolutionary War." CUNY Early American Republic Seminar. New York, Feb. 6.

"Acts of Power: The Boston Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson, and Fears of Enslavement." Abram Kartch/Thomas Jefferson Lecture, William Paterson University. Wayne, N.J., April 21.

"Leadership in the Work of Edmund S. Morgan." Columbia University Seminar on Early American History and Culture. New York, Feb. 10.

"The Invention of Holidays: How Early America Shaped Our Days Off." Brooklyn College Historical Society general meeting. Brooklyn, NY, Oct. 8.

Boston Background Session, "At the Crossroads of Revolution: Lexington and Concord in 1775." Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop, Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, July 28 and Aug. 4.

"Fear: 'The Unpleasing Part of the Drama' of the American Revolution." Summer Seminar Series, McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Philadelphia, Aug. 7.

"The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America." Long Island Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. Melville, N.Y., Oct. 24.

"The Global Origins of the American Revolution." U.S. History Teachers' Summer Symposium. Poly Prep Country Day School. Brooklyn, N.Y., June 21.

Panelist and chair, "The Boston Tea Party: The Most Dangerous Memory of the American Revolution." Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. Atlanta, April 10.

"'Fix'd almost among Strangers': Charleston's Quaker Connections on the Eve of Revolution." Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies. New York, March 23.

"Fear: 'The Unpleasing Part of the Drama' of the American Revolution." University of Florida. Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 12.

"The Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution." Teacher workshop sponsored by Minute Man National Historic Park. Boston, Aug. 14.

"The Fractured Teapot: Debating the Legacy of the Boston Tea Party." Series on "'Civil' Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue." Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida. Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 12.

"Virtuous War, Vicious Cities: The American Revolution's Urban Legacy." Urban History Association conference. New York, Oct. 26.

"Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party and the Path to War." Ninth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution. Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., Sept. 22.

"The Use of Violence in Revolutionary Boston." American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Jan. 9.

Comment, "Mean Streets: Crowds and Violence in Colonial British American Cities." Seventeenth Annual Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Conference, New Paltz, N.Y., June 18.

"'Enemies to Their Country' in Revolutionary Boston." American Studies Summer Institute. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Boston, July 11.

"'The Ringleader of All Violence': Revolutionary Boston and the Tea Party." Teaching American History Grant. Framingham State University and American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass., Aug. 11.

"African-Americans in Colonial New York." Teaching American History Grant. Gilder Lehrman Institute and Rockland County BOCES. New York, Aug. 23.

"The Mobilization of Revolutionary America." The American Journey: History, Culture, and the Arts. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Feb. 23.

"Urban Life during the Revolutionary War." History Connected Teaching American History Grant Summer Institute. Primary Source and Reading Memorial High School. Reading, Mass., July 12.

"World War and the Coming of the American Revolution" and "City Life and the American Rebellion." Teaching American History Grant, Gilder Lehrman Institute and Guilford County, N.C., Schools. New York, June 28.

Author talk. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University. New York, March 23.

Author talk. University of Virginia Club and Yale Club of Rhode Island. John Carter Brown Library. Providence, R.I., Feb. 14.

Comment on "The Politics of Fear: Slave Conspiracy Panics, Community Mobilization, and the Coming of the American Revolution," by Jason T. Sharples. Boston Area Early American History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, Feb. 3.

Guest speaker. In-Service Day, Freedom Trail Foundation. Boston, March 8.

Panelist, President's Plenary, "The Populist Temper in Early America: Is It Real or Is It Memorex?" Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Philadelphia, July 14.

"The Rise of Cities after the Revolution." Teaching American History Grant. Gilder Lehrman Institute and Md.-Baltimore City Public Schools. Towson, Md., June 28.

Author presentation. Historiography Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Oct. 6.

Author talk. Colonial Society of Massachusetts. [Later broadcast on American History TV, C-SPAN3, February 2011.] Boston, Dec. 16.

Author talk. David Library of the American Revolution. [Later broadcast on Book TV, C-SPAN2, December 2010.] Washington Crossing, Pa., Oct. 7.

"Did Dutch Smugglers Provoke the Boston Tea Party?" Cities in Revolt: The Dutch-American Atlantic, ca. 1650-1830, Columbia University. New York, Nov. 13.

"Global Perspectives on the Boston Tea Party." Exploring Transnational Studies Inaugural Conference. Tufts University. Medford, Mass., April 24.

Chair and discussant, "Remaking the American Nation: Secession and its Consequences for the Civil War United States." Seventh European Social Science History Conference. Lisbon, Portugal, Feb. 29.

"Partygoers: Recovering the Narratives of the Boston Tea Party Participants." Boston Area Early American History Seminar. Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, May 1.

"Teapot in a Tempest: the Boston Tea Party of 1773." Summer Seminar Series, McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Philadelphia, June 12.

"The Struggles of Empire." Chapter 1 of Defiance of the Patriots. Atlantic World Workshop. New York University. New York, Dec. 2.

Chair, "Perspectives on Colonial America." New England Historical Association, spring meeting. Boston, April 26.

"Americans Mobilized: The Revolutions in the Cities." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Worcester, Mass. July 20.

"Beyond George R.T. Hewes: Recovering the Narratives of the Boston Tea Party Participants." Thirteenth Annual Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Conference and Fifth Biennial Society of Early Americanists Conference. Williamsburg, Va., June 9.

"The Culmination of Destructive Warfare in Colonial America." Conference on Warfare and Society in Colonial North America and the Caribbean. Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 6.

"The Night the Yankees Burned Broadway: The Destruction of New York City in 1776." Conference on New York State History. New York, June 3.

"A Revolution in Brick and Brush: The Cultural Politics of the Radical Cosmopolitan." Conference on Faces and Places of Early America. McNeil Center for Early American Studies. Philadelphia, Dec. 3.

"Order, Disorder, and Rebellion in the Taverns of Prerevolutionary New York City." Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. San Jose, Calif., April 2.

"The Flames of War: Pyromachy and Destruction during the American Revolution." Columbia University Seminar on Early American History and Culture. New York, Oct. 11.

Panelist, "Roundtable on United States Election." Transatlantic Seminar Series, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland. Nov. 5.

"Cityscapes and Revolution." Fall Colloquium, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 7.

"Changing Our Habitation: Domestic Spaces in Charleston during the Revolutionary Era." Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World. Charleston, S.C., June 8.

"Port in a Storm: The Boston Waterfront as Contested Space, 1747-1774." 70th Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute for Historical Research. London, July 5.

"Port in a Storm: The Boston Waterfront as Contested Space, 1747-1774." Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, annual meeting. Baltimore, July 20.

"The American Revolutionary War: everything you wanted to know." History Extra Podcast, with Elinor Evans. Feb. 27.

"The Revolutionary Taverns of New York City." Brooklyn Lifelong Learning. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 6.

Member, Admissions and Awards Committee, Graduate Center, 2020-2021.

"New York Burning, 1776, with Benjamin L. Carp." Revolution 250 Podcast, with Robert J. Allison. Sept. 21,

"A New York City Mystery of 1776: Who Set the Fire that Burned Broadway?" Brooklyn Lifelong Learning. Brooklyn, N.Y., March 9.

"The Fraught Path to Inclusion: Newport's Jewish and African-American Communities in the Revolutionary Era." Congregation B'nai Israel. Rumson, N.J., April 29.

"Weston's Revolution: Taverns, Tea, and Turncoats." Golden Ball Tavern Museum and Weston Historical Society. Weston, Mass., March 25.

Author conversation with Kevin J. Weddle, The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution, OUP History Book Club, Oxford University Press. New York, May 12.

Member, Planning Committee, Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, 2019-2020.

"Tea Party Tonight!" with Rob Crean, Chernoh Sesay, Jr., and William Fowler. Revolutionary Spaces. Boston, Dec. 16.

Author interview, Defiance of the Patriots, Dr. Joseph Warren Historical Society. Boston, July 17.

Selection Committee, Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2018-19.

Chair, Committee on the Library, Faculty Council, 2015-2018.

"The Revolutionary Taverns of New York City." Peter Minuit Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. New York, Jan. 10.

Member, Membership Directory Committee, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2011-15.

"Pre-War of Independence Taverns of New York City." The Greenwich Series. New York, Jan. 16.

Author talk. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Florida. Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 13.

Member, "A New Nation Votes" Advisory Board, Tufts University and the American Antiquarian Society, 2009-14.

Co-organizer and roundtable discussant. "Fear in the Revolutionary Americas, 1776-1865." Center for the Humanities at Tufts, Tufts University. Medford, Mass., Oct. 31.

"Cities and Revolution: The Cases of Boston's Waterfront and Newport's Churches." Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, Jan. 16.

"Defiance of the Patriots: The Revolution in Charlestown beyond the Neck." Local History Lecture Series, Historic Somerville. Somerville, Mass., Feb. 23.

"Order, Disorder, and Rebellion in New York City's Revolutionary Taverns." Fraunces Tavern Museum. [Later broadcast on American History TV, C-SPAN3, November 2014-January 2015.] New York, Oct. 16.

"Separated by a Common History" (in absentia). Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Florida. Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 14.

"The Fiery Side of New York's Revolutionary War." Historic Huguenot District. New Paltz, N.Y., June 25.

Author talk. 1850 House Inn & Tavern. Rosendale, N.Y., June 23.

Author talk. Lunch and Learn Speaker Series, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tufts University. Medford, Mass., March 10.

"Resolute Men (Dressed as Mohawks)." Old South Meeting House and Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Boston, Dec. 12.

Author talk. Cox Book Prize honoree, Society of the Cincinnati. Washington, D.C., Oct. 24.

Author talk. Fraunces Tavern Museum. New York, April 11.

"'Our United Sentiments': Boston, Newton, and the Cause of Liberty." Newton Free Library. Newton, Mass., Feb. 13.

Author talk. Massachusetts Society of the American Revolution. Boston, Feb. 25.

Author talk. St. Botolph's Club. Boston, May 5.

Member, Fellowship Application Review Committee, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, spring.

Member, Short-Term Fellowship Selection Committee, Massachusetts Historical Society, spring.

"Fires and Firefighting in Colonial New England." Edmund Rice (1638) Association. Natick, Mass., Sept. 17.

Author talk. American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass., April 5.

Author talk. Arlington Historical Society. Arlington, Mass., April 15.

Author talk. Bench and Bar Seminar. Social Law Library. Boston, Feb. 8.

Author talk. Boston Public Library. Boston, April 13.

Author talk. Historic Shirley-Eustis House. Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 27.

Author talk. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston, Feb. 23.

Author talk. Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, Feb. 17.

Author talk. Sudbury Companies of Militia & Minute. Wayside Inn. Sudbury, Mass., May 2.

Author talk. Yale Alumni Association of New York. Harney & Sons. New York, Oct. 20.

Host, Boston Tea Party Annual Reenactment. Old South Meeting House. Boston, Dec. 11.

Participant, College Board AP United States History Research Study, October.

Author event. Old State House Museum and Bostonian Society. Boston, Dec. 15.

Author talk (with David Art). Yale Club of Boston. Boston, Dec. 1.

Author talk. American Revolution Round Table. New York, Oct. 5.

Author talk. Boston Tea Party Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dorchester, Mass., Dec. 16.

Author talk. Old South Meeting House. Boston, Oct. 21.

Author talk. Royall House and Slave Quarters. Medford, Mass., Nov. 17.

Carp, Benjamin and Kris Manjapra. "Two Nations, Shared History." Lexington Historical Society. Lexington, Mass., April 30.

Skype Q&A, "Historical Perspective on the Boston Tea Party." Andover (Kansas) Middle School eighth-grade students. Sept. 16.

"Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773," two-part lecture series. Middays at the Meeting House. Old South Meeting House. Boston, Dec. 3 and 10.

"Lexington, the Locals, and the Boston Tea Party." Cronin Lecture Series, Lexington Historical Society. Lexington, Mass., Nov. 21.

Author talk. Elfreth's Alley National Historic Landmark District. Philadelphia, Oct. 29.

Author talk. Redwood Library. Newport, R.I., Jan. 24.

Expert Advisor, "Essential Guide to the American Revolution." BBC History Revealed 107: 30-57.

Scholar/Consultant, "Revisiting the Founding Era." Gilder Lehrman Institute, funded by National Endowment of the Humanities Community Conversations Grant.

"The Global Boston Tea Party." Filmed for Fora.tv. Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House. Washington, D.C., Oct. 24.

Interviewee, Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea (television documentary series), episode 2. KEO Films. BBC One (UK). Filmed in Boston. Aired April 11.

Member, workshop for reinterpretation of Durant Kenrick House. Historic Newton. Newton, Mass., November 2010, November 2011 and June 2013.

Author interview on Defiance of the Patriots, by Faith Middleton. The Faith Middleton Show, Connecticut Public Radio, WNPR FM 90.5. Aired Oct. 2.

Expert interviewee. How Booze Built America (television documentary series), episode 1. Karga Seven Pictures. Discovery Channel. Aired Sept. 19.

Video interviews, Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Boston, Aug. 16.

Author interview, Defiance of the Patriots, by David Inge. Focus. Illinois Public Media, WILL AM 580. Aired Nov. 18.

Guest scholar. "Teed Off: The Tea Party, Then and Now" (podcast). BackStory with the American History Guys. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. May.

Member, scholarly panel, reinterpretation of Munroe Tavern. Lexington Historical Society. Lexington, Mass., March 5.

Consultant, Days That Shook the World (Series III): "Boston Tea Party," Lion Television. United Kingdom.