Robert J. Allison

From Oxford University Press's best-selling series, a very short introduction to the American Revolution. An exciting and complicated topic, brought to you in bracing prose.

Spent a few minutes with John Gomez, on LI News Radio (103.9 in the New York area) talking about history, the American Revolution, and my concise history. July 2015.

Emily Rooney asked me to come talk about the debate over the St. Patrick's Day/Evacuation Day parade in South Boston.

A discussion of the Revolution's origins.

Discussing this venerable institution with Nick DeLuca, but there is a link to the definitive article on the subject.

Our History Slam visited 5 schools, with 7 Re-Enactors bringing history to hundreds of kids in anticipation of Evacuation Day.

Emily Rooney asked me to come talk about the debate over the St. Patrick's Day/Evacuation Day parade. March 5, 2014.

As Boston prepares for a mayoral election, NECN asked about previous elections. The cautionary tale of Toodles and Honey Fitz, from 1914, continues to be instructive if you are planning to run.

Emily Rooney on "Greater Boston" asked me to explain Evacuation Day and St. Patrick's Day, two holidays that share March 17.

The Society of the Cincinnati, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Colonial Dames asked me to explain why the Revolution began in Boston. We met at the venerable Prescott House on Beacon Street, home of renowned historian William Hickling Prescott.

Eleesha Tucker, education director from the Society of the Cincinnati, talked to me about the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party. The Society of the Cincinnati was founded by Washington's officers in 1783; I was made an honorary member and am always honored to meet with them.

Emily Rooney asked me to come talk to her on WGBH's "Greater Boston" about the Molasses Flood, 6 February 2013.

Todd Andrlik, J.L. Bell, and I discuss Todd's Reporting the Revolutionary War, a great new book of newspaper accounts from the American Revolution. Read about the war as it happened! Taped at the Old State House, December 2, 2012.

On December 4, we inaugurated James McCarthy as Suffolk's 9th President, at Faneuil Hall. I was asked to say a few words giving historical context, explaining the significance of this special place.

My students had the opportunity to recreate the Boston Tea Party as part of their final exam in their American History course, December 12, 2012.

A special Thanksgiving presentation.

Todd Andrlik's collection of Revolutionary-era newspapers is soon to be published by Sourcebooks--as Reporting the Revolutionary War. Here is a promotional piece on discovering history.

Radio Boston did this piece on New England's opposition to the War of 1812. Discussed the problems on a rainy morning in East Boston's Brophy Park, the site of Fort Strong in 1814.

The Travel Channel's "Mysteries at the Museum" did this nice brief piece on the molasses flood--great computer work showing what happened, some images, and an outstanding piece of fire equipment--filmed in the Boston Fire Museum on Congress Street.

In March I gave a talk at Old South Meeting House as part of their Boston neighborhood series.

Patriot's Day--now the 3rd Monday in April--may be best known for the Boston Marathon. But the date has much more significance.

Here is a talk at Old South in Boston, about Stephen Decatur. During Navy Week, 2006.

The South Boston Historical Society had a "History Slam," visiting 5 schools with a team of re-enactors to get the kids excited about history. This was part of our Evacuation Day proceedings, commemorating the British evacuation of Boston, March 17, 1776--the first American victory in the war for independence.

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Bostonians remember Kevin White--Paul Grogan, Mel King, John Sears, and me.

Here is a free, on-line course I am doing on the U.S. Constitution.

Why do they call it Cape Cod? Izzy made this video at Long Point, as I try to explain. A great shot of the the Long Point light.

Joe Battenfeld and I discuss embarrassing relatives. Not ours, but various Presidents'.

Frank Beckmann from WJR Detroit called to learn more about Paul Revere. Look for the link on June 8.

Melissa Block from "All Things Considered" called to talk about Paul Revere.

I elaborate on this important topic in the New York Daily News, June 8.

Here is a review of my American Revolution book, in the Weekly Standard.