A prolific author, professor wood has won numerous awards. In 1970, his book creation of the american republic, 17761787 won the bancroft prize. In 1993, his radicalism of the American Revolution won the Pulitzer Prize for history. The americanization of Benjamin Franklin was awarded the Julia Ward Howe prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. His volume in the oxford history of the United States entitled empire of liberty a history of the early republic, 17891815 was given the association of american publishers award for history and biography in 2009, the American History book prize by the New York Historical society, and the society of the cincinnati history prize in 2010. Incidentally, professor wood, we heard from your former student jack warren, the executive director of the society, last week. That same year, 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities medal by president obama. He is a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences and the american philosophical society, t
Here is a little damp and cold, we just drove back en route to from williamstown, massachusetts. So our first snow of the year in, of all places, the top peaks en route to in the berkshires, in the town of wait for it, florida and florida, mass situations. I always thought that was some kind of a joke. But anyway, it gets the first snow. This year and just a little harbinger of things to come and not enough to make the roads impassable, which will happen later on in the year. But anyway, i want to first thank a couple of folks who are here to thank our friends from cspan, who are going to be recording this for future use on television. Thank Rachel Hobson from the library, who was here making sure everything is set up properly and and most importantly, thank chris meyer, who is the sponsor of this series, a member of our board and a longtime member of the wellesley historical society. And also, just so you know, there will be refreshments. Youre after the talk by tom paine, although ma
Radical influence of a moderate founding father, recently published by the university of harvard press. Brooke barbier is a public historian who holds a ph. D. American history from boston college. In addition to king hancock, she is the author of boston and the American Revolution a town versus an empire, published by the unit excuse me, the History Press in 2017, which focuses on prerevolutionary boston and its during the American Revolution. In addition to her scholarship, she is also the founder of yield tavern tours, a popular guided outing along bostons renowned freedom, and that was founded in 2013. But before i hand over to dr. Barber, however, the usual housekeeping items are in order for our friends tuning in with us on zoom this evening following tonights authors talk there will be a question and answer session. So please feel free to submit your questions at any point. The presentation by using the q a that can be found at the bottom of your screen. And we will do our best
Good. What do we document to. The suns of liberty speak tonight. Hey, hey. The town is getting real. Well, we got. The suns. The big welcome to the 249th anniversary. Boston tea party reenactments. Tonight, we relive meeting of the body of the people whose vigorous debates led to the destruction of the tea or what became known as the Boston Tea Party revolutionary spaces. Welcome to you into the room where the meeting occurred right here at Old South Meeting House. My name is j. L. Bell. I write about revolutionary boston, and tonight im to be one of the revolutionary spaces helping to bring you event. Now, i would like introduce the president and ceo revolutionary spaces, ladies and, gentlemen, dr. Nathaniel sheidley, you. Thank you, john. Good evening, everybody, and welcome to old south meeting for the 249th anniversary of the boston party. So here at revolution spaces, our mission is to bring people together in order to explore our nations unfinished struggle, to create and sustain
Good. What do we document to. The suns of liberty speak tonight. Hey, hey. The town is getting real. Well, we got. The suns. The big welcome to the 249th anniversary. Boston tea party reenactments. Tonight, we relive meeting of the body of the people whose vigorous debates led to the destruction of the tea or what became known as the Boston Tea Party revolutionary spaces. Welcome to you into the room where the meeting occurred right here at Old South Meeting House. My name is j. L. Bell. I write about revolutionary boston, and tonight im to be one of the revolutionary spaces helping to bring you event. Now, i would like introduce the president and ceo revolutionary spaces, ladies and, gentlemen, dr. Nathaniel sheidley, you. Thank you, john. Good evening, everybody, and welcome to old south meeting for the 249th anniversary of the boston party. So here at revolution spaces, our mission is to bring people together in order to explore our nations unfinished struggle, to create and sustain