PUBLIC TALKs
I offer a growing menu of public lectures customized to fit your audience. Contact me.
POPULAR The Fire of Frederick Douglass
NEW To Preserve Slavery? Human Bondage & The American Revolution
The Citizens’ Guide to the 1619 Project
Critical Race Theory: Context, Controversy, Call to Action
What We Commemorate on Juneteenth
Guns, Cows, & Ships: The Spanish in the American Revolution
The Newer World: The American Revolution & the Odyssey to Australia
The French Alliance & the Road to Yorktown
The Hessians are Coming: German Soldiers & the American Revolution
The Crown Jewels: The British Caribbean & the American Revolution
The 1783 Treaty of Paris: America’s Future on the Brink
The Valley Forge Winter & the Man Who Made It Count
Tempest in a Tea Pot: The Boston Tea Party
Disunited Kingdom: The American Revolution in Britain
Fire! The Inside Story of the Boston Massacre
Native Expulsion & Manifest Destiny
The Fighting Irish: Ireland & The American Revolution
The Dark Alchemy of the Three Fifths Clause
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (book talk)
America’s Birth Certificate: The Declaration of Independence
Untold Stories of the American Revolution
Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Battle for America: The French & Indian War
The War of 1812: Out of History’s Shadows
The Tragedy of Tom Paine
The Dark Treason of Benedict Arnold
The Wrong Side of History: Loyalists in the American Revolution
VIDEO
“Coffee with Richard Bell,” WJZ CBS Baltimore, Dec. 24, 2019.
“Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home,” C-SPAN, Dec. 14, 2019.
“Maryland Professor Documents Free People Kidnapped into Slavery,” NBC4 News Washington DC, Dec. 1, 2019.
“Five Things You Didn't Know About the Reverse Underground Railroad,” History in Five, Sep. 18, 2019.
"Declaration of Independence: A Global Legacy," C-SPAN, Jun. 26, 2019.
“Redemption and the Reverse Underground Railroad,” Providence College Humanities Forum, Sep. 14, 2018.
"Loyalists in the American Revolution," C-SPAN, Apr. 24, 2018.
"1768 British Occupation of Colonial Boston," C-SPAN, Sep. 18, 2012
“Hamilton vs. Jefferson,” Smithsonian Associates, May 5, 2012.
"Liberty or Death: Slaves' Suicides & the Fight to Destroy American Slavery," Library of Congress, Aug. 18, 2011.
AUDIO
Interview with Behind the Spine (podcast), Nov. 25, 2020.
Interview with PA Books (podcast), Jan 24, 2020.
Interview with Historically Thinking (podcast), Dec 30, 2019.
Interview with The Way of Improvement Leads Home (podcast), Dec 13, 2019.
Interview with The Rogue Historian (podcast), Dec. 1, 2019.
Interview with On the Record, WYPR Baltimore (radio), Nov. 11, 2019.
Interview with Constant Wonder, BYU Public Radio (radio), Nov. 8, 2019.
Interview with Radio Times, WHYY Philadelphia (radio), Nov. 1, 2019.
Interview with Hour of History (podcast), Oct. 19, 2019.
Interview with New Books Network (podcast), Oct. 17, 2019.
Interview with Studio Tulsa, Public Radio Tulsa 89.5 FM (radio), Sep. 4, 2019.
Interview with WHAS Great Day Live (television), June 6, 2019.
Interview with The Not Old-Better Show (podcast), Jan. 15, 2019.
Interview with Robert Mangino Show, KDKA AM 1020 (radio), Jan 6, 2019.
Interview with Afternoon News, KDKA AM 1020 (radio), Jan 2, 2019.
Interview with The Not Old-Better Show (podcast), Apr. 4, 2018.
“Thomas Paine: Revolutions of a Founding Father,” Smithsonian Associates, Nov. 16, 2017
“War of 1812: Out of History's Shadows,” Smithsonian Associates, Sep. 25, 2017
Interview with Maryland Today (online), Oct. 15, 2019.
Interview with Tulsa World (print), Sep. 8, 2019.
Feature article in Leo Weekly (print), May 29, 2019.
Interview with CultureSpotMC (online), Jan 8, 2019.
Interview with Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (print), Jan 2, 2019.
