Summary: <p>On the evening of March 5, 1770, Captain Thomas Preston and a small contingent of British Redcoats under his command fired into a crowd of civilians massing on King Street in Boston, killing several people.</p> <p>Many of us are familiar with Paul Revere’s famous <a href="https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=151&pid=2">engraving </a>of what he called “the Bloody Massacre,” what we now know as “the Boston Massacre.”</p> <p>But Revere’s depiction of the incident obscures much more than it reveals about the thousands of connections between Bostonians and the British Army in the years before the American Revolution.</p> <p>On today's episode, we're pleased to bring you the audio version of Jim Ambuske's recent live stream conversation with <a href="https://apps.carleton.edu/profiles/szabin/">Dr. Serena Zabin</a>, professor of history at Carleton College. Zabin is the author of the new book, <a href="https://contentbookstore.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=oO69hqA8LeCJeS6-OhrOtQ"><em>The Boston Massacre: A Family History</em>.</a></p> <p><strong>About Our Guest:</strong></p> <p>Serena Zabin is a professor of early America and director of the program in American Studies at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. She received degrees from Bowdoin College, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Professor Zabin’s newest work, <em>The Boston Massacre: A Family History</em>, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in February 2020.</p> <p><strong>About Our Host:</strong></p> <p>Jim Ambuske, Ph.D. leads the <a href="https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/">Center for Digital History</a> at the Washington Library. A historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World, Ambuske graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016. He is a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law, Ambuske co-directed the<a href="http://archives.law.virginia.edu/catalogue/"> 1828 Catalogue Project</a> and the <a href="http://scos.law.virginia.edu/">Scottish Court of Session Project</a>. He is currently at work on a book about emigration from Scotland in the era of the American Revolution as well as a chapter on Scottish loyalism during the American Revolution for a volume to be published by the University of Edinburgh Press.</p>
