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The American Revolution was a cataclysm that pulled in participants from around the globe and fundamentally transformed how the world worked, disrupting trade, restructuring penal systems, stirring famine and creating the first global refugee crisis. Drawing from his new book that repositions the Revolution at the center of an international web, historian Richard Bell, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland discusses the impact of the Revolution at home and abroad by grounding the narrative in the gripping stories of individuals that include, among others, women, minorities and other disenfranchised people.

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About the Speaker

Richard Bell is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2006, and his research interests focus on American history between 1750 and 1877. In addition to various articles and contributing chapters, Dr. Bell is the author of several books, including Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Simon & Schuster, 2019), We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (University of Georgia Press, 2012). Dr. Bell has held research fellowships at more than two dozen libraries and institutes, including the 2025 Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland Fellowship for research in our library. Dr. Bell is also the recipient of more than a dozen awards, including the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for teaching faculty in the Maryland state system.