Books by J. L. Bell or Including His Work

General George Washington’s Headquarters and Home—Cambridge, Massachusetts is a book-length historic resource study researched and written by J. L. Bell and published by the National Park Service in 2012. A 5.6-megabyte P.D.F. file of the entire 650-page study can be downloaded from the Park Service by clicking here.

“The Powder Alarm” and “The Battle of Lexington and Concord” are essays in Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News, edited by Todd Andrlik (Sourcebooks, 2012).

“From Saucy Boys to Sons of Liberty: Politicizing Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Boston” is the last chapter in Children in Colonial America, edited by Prof. James Marten (N.Y.U. Press, 2006). Reviews from H-Net and PhiloBiblos.

“Boston Massacre: Pamphlets and Propaganda,” “Boston Tea Party: Politicizing Ordinary People,” and “George Robert Twelves Hewes” are articles in the encyclopedia Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront, edited by John P. Resch (Thomson Gale, 2004).