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URL:https://250.mercercountynj.gov/events/the-boston-massacre-a-family-his
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SUMMARY:The Boston Massacre: A Family History
DESCRIPTION:Revolution Up Close: A Public Lecture Series\nThis lecture seri
 es is presented in connection with Nursery of Rebellion: Princeton and th
 e American Revolution\, an exhibit at the Princeton University Library whi
 ch runs from April 15 to July 12\, 2026. Four recent authors offer new per
 spectives on the American Revolution by zooming in on an individual life\,
  a close-knit community\, or a single document.\n\nFree and open to all\nB
 ooks for sale by Labyrinth Books\n\nSupported by a Special Grant from the 
 Humanities Council’s Ruth and Sid Lapidus ’59 Research Fellowships Fun
 d\nDetails\n\nA dramatic\, untold “people’s history” of the storied 
 event that helped trigger the American Revolution.\n\n\nThe story of the B
 oston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770\, British soldiers 
 shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But from the ve
 ry beginning\, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massac
 re arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political.\n\nP
 rofessor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to foll
 ow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to
  subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. And she reveals a forgotten
  world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and children who a
 ccompanied these armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians fo
 r living space\, finding common cause in the search for a lost child\, tra
 ding barbs\, and sharing baptisms. Becoming\, in other words\, neighbors. 
 When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street\, it was these intensely
  human\, now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fough
 t American Revolution.\n\nSerena Zabin’s The Boston Massacre delivers 
 an indelible new slant on iconic American Revolutionary history.\nAuthor\n
 Serena Zabin is the Stephen R. Lewis\, Jr. Professor of History and the L
 iberal Arts at Carleton College. She is the author of Dangerous Economies
 : Status and Commerce in Imperial New York and The New York Conspiracy T
 rials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings. She is al
 so the codesigner of a serious video game about the Boston Massacre\, Wit
 ness to the Revolution.\n\n\n
CATEGORIES:Historical
LOCATION:Robertson Hall\, Arthur Lewis Auditorium\, 20 Prospect Avenue\, Pr
 inceton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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