J. L. BELL is a Massachusetts writer who specializes in (among other things) the start of the American Revolution in and around Boston. He is particularly interested in the experiences of children in 1765-75. He has published scholarly papers and popular articles for both children and adults. He was consultant for an episode of History Detectives, and contributed to a display at Minute Man National Historic Park.
Hear J. L. Bell “Gossiping About the Gores” at Old South Meeting House, archived by the WBGH Forum Network. This talk, delivered in January 2009, follows one Boston family from the 1760s through the 1820s. Striving in society, divided by politics, and occasionally star-crossed by love, the Gores provide a lively view of life during the American Revolution.
Hear me discuss John Adams with Mike Pesca, host of N.P.R.’s The Bryant Park Project, in April 2008.
Please check out the online exhibit about the 5th of November in Boston that I assembled for the Bostonian Society. People in Britain celebrated that date as Guy Fawkes’ Day, but in Boston it was “Pope-Night”—a literal riot of bigotry, violence, and giant puppets of the Pope!
J. L. Bell’s article “A Bankruptcy in Boston, 1765” appears in the fourth-quarter 2008 issue of Massachusetts Banker. You can download a copy of the entire magazine for free from this page.
J. L. Bell’s article “‘I Never Used to Go Out with a Weapon’: Law Enforcement on the Streets of Prerevolutionary Boston,” about town watchmen, British army officers, and the Boston Massacre, is available in the Dublin Seminar volume Life on the Streets and Commons.
Children in Colonial America, edited by Prof. James Marten and published by N.Y.U. Press, features J. L. Bell’s chapter “From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston.”

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Revolutionary Lectures for Downloading

Back in September I mentioned a series of lectures at Old South Meeting-House about radicalism in the American Revolution. Audio and/or video versions of those presentations are available for free (to folks with fast internet connections) through the Forums website of WGBH, Boston's public-TV station:

Since I could attend only one of these events, I'm pleased to have the chance to catch up.

In addition, the WGBH Forums site offers other talks from these Revolutionary War experts:
Pace yourselves.

(Some of the downloads are RealAudio files; the most recent are MP3s.)

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