Did George Washington Burn Down NYC?: Professor Benjamin Carp
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Did George Washington Burn Down NYC?: Professor Benjamin Carp
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Carter interviewed Professor Carp and learned a lot. Micah on the other hand, somehow learned less than he already knew.
Benjamin Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College. He received his BA from Yale and his MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, which won the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati in 2013, and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, and his new book, The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution. He has written about nationalism, firefighters, wet nurses, Benjamin Franklin, and Quaker merchants in Charleston, for scholarly journals like Early American Studies, Civil War History, New York History, the William and Mary Quarterly, and popular publications such as BBC History, Colonial Williamsburg, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Artwork by Layal Suliaman
Music by Nate Sander