History Camp Boston 2026 Speakers

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Salina B. Baker — Dr. Joseph Warren and an American Rebellion — HCB2026
Robert Allison — 1776: Independence and After— HCB2026
Ben Powers and Bjorn Bruckshaw — Race & Brutality in the Neutral Ground: Colonel Christopher Greene and the 1st Rhode Island Regiment at Pines Bridge, May 14, 1781 — HCB2026
Niki Lefebvre — Broken Promises on the Road Revolution in Natick, 1650 – 1783 — HCB2026
Margo Burns — Fake Portraits of Illustrious Leaders in Boston — HCB2026
Laurie Gwen Shapiro — Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Making of an American Icon — HCB2026
Owen Laurenzo — Oxen and the Revolution: How Four Hooves and a Set of Horns Helped Forge a Nation (1775-1781) — HCB2026
Judy Anderson — Only a Dozen Loyalists in Marblehead?! — HCB2026
Janet Uhlar — Nathanael Greene: Savior of the Continental Army — HCB2026
Steven C. Call — Much More than Taxation: Mercantilism and the Coming of the Revolution — HCB2026
Jennifer Epstein Rudnick — Is he really buried there? Searching for the graves of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence — HCB2026
Judith C. Granger — Maine Women and the Great Gathering of 10,000 in 1854 — HCB2026
Lori Rogers-Stokes — Martians! What the War of the Worlds Broadcast Tells Us about American Society on the Eve of WWII — HCB2026
Josh Hutchinson and Sarah Jack — How English Witch-Hunting Manuals Guided New England’s Witch Trials, 1647-1697 — HCB2026
Jeffrey Boutwell — George Boutwell: Fighting to Redeem America’s Promise — HCB2026
Dr. Stephen Knott — Conspirator in Chief: The Long Tradition of Conspiracy Theories in the American Presidency — HCB2026
Dr. Sam Forman — Dr. Joseph Warren – “Act Worthy of Yourselves” — HCB2026
David Weed — How King Philip’s War led to the Revolutionary War — HCB2026
Anne F. Mattina, PhD — Frederick Douglass on the Massachusetts’ Antislavery Circuit, 1840-1860 — HCB2026
Alan Fishel - Robin Hayutin — Famous Women, Forgotten Women: Stories from American History — HCB2026
A. Michael Ruderman — Civil War Monuments, from Obelisks to ‘Parade Rest” to American Renaissance — HCB2026
Kit Sergeant — Who Was Agent 355? Women, Espionage, and the Culper Ring in the American Revolution — HCB2026
Peggy Jablonski — Walking Cape Cod’s Hidden History: from the American Revolution to the Kennedy/Civil Rights Era — HCB2026
Emma Bickford — Transforming Dark Tourism Sites Into Cultural Hubs Through the Lens of Medfield State Hospital — HCB2026
Alison Simcox and Douglas Heath — Transformation of the Charlestown Territory in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1629 to 1800 — HCB2026
Jake Sconyers — Thirty days hath September… Except when it doesn’t — HCB2026
Tom Mannle, Jr. and Timothy A. Wray — The Unknown Musician – An Inquiry into the Origin of Taps — HCB2026
Steve Parode — The United States Navy in the American Gilded Age (1878-1898): From Rotting Relic to Herald of Empire — HCB2026
Heather Cole The True Story of The Woman Hobo: Separating Fact from Fiction in a 1908 Travelogue
Justice Dennis J. Curran — The Trial of Lizzie Borden: Whacks and Hacks — HCB2026
Richard Tucker — “The Marines Have Landed…” The Continental Marines and the Birth of the U.S. Marine Corps — HCB2026
Peter Snoad, Christle Rawlins-Jackson, and Mikayla Harden — The Making of Abolition Acre! A Black Freedom Trail in Boston — HCB2026
Robert Forrant — The ‘Industrial Beehive’ Takes Shape: Ideas, Innovation, and Enterprise in the Connecticut River Valley 1820 – 1970 — HCB2026
Dan R. Morris — The 1800s: When Technology Collapsed Space and Time — HCB2026
Nikki Stewart, Roeshana Moore-Evans, and Suzy Buchanan — Telling Complex & Hard Histories: Interpreting Slavery at Small Historic Sites — HCB2026
J.L. Bell — Stories of the Signatures — HCB2026
Mikayla Harden, Pat Wilson Pheanious, and Liz Lightfoot — Stopping to Witness History: How Micro-Monuments Inspire Human Connection — HCB2026
Michael Digby — Sleuthing the ‘Crime of the Century,’ the 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times: A Bomb Detective’s Perspective — HCB2026
Tom Goldscheider — Shays’ Rebellion: Reclaiming the Revolution — HCB2026
John Cass — Seventeenth-Century English Immigrant Motivation and the Making of New England Institutions — HCB2026
Melissa M. Cybulski — Searching for Zickery Prince: A Journey Through the Archives — HCB2026
Marilynne K. Roach — Samuel Parris: Villain, Victim, or . . .? Yet Another Question Raised by the Salem Witch Trials — HCB2026
Stacey Ferguson — Revolutionary Revelation: Identifying Revolutionary War KIAs using Forensic Genealogy — HCB2026
Patricia J. Fanning — Remembering 1918: Stories from an Epidemic — HCB2026
Sarah Walsh and Christopher Davis — Reconstructing the Spoken Word of the 18th Century through the Adams’ Letters and Language — HCB2026
Janet Parnes — Quaker Girl Takes Washington’s Center Stage: The Influence of Dolley Madison — HCB2026
Andy Volpe — Printing Revolution: Declaration Edition — HCB2026
B. Dale Magee — Politics & Public Health, 1918: The Great War Meets the Great Influenza — HCB2026
John Morton — Paul Revere: Messenger Boy turned Industrial Entrepreneur — HCB2026
Rose A. Doherty — Park Street: A Mirror of Boston for Centuries — HCB2026
Jessica A. Kent — Mapping Boston’s Literary History: From Colonial Printing Presses to Confessional Poets — HCB2026
Kevin Getz — Living Historian: Britain’s Glider Pilot Regiment — HCB2026
Rebecca Flynt — “I Am Not A Cautious Man”: The Most Important Founding Father You’ve Never Heard Of — HCB2026
Alycia Asai — From the Triangle Fire to Today: Women, Work, and the Fight for Safety and Dignity — HCB2026