Robert J. Allison is a professor of history at Suffolk University. He chairs Revolution 250, a consortium of more than 60 historical organizations in New England planning commemorations of the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary. He is also the president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, a Life Trustee of the USS CONSTITUTION Museum, a Fellow of the American Antiquarian Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, and an honorary member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati.In addition to Stephen Decatur, American Naval Hero (2004) his books include A Very Short Introduction to the American Revolution (2015), A...
The author of The Intellectual Sword: Harvard Law School, The Second Century (with Bruce A. Kimball), On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century (with Bruce A. Kimball), Portrait of a Patriot: The Quincy Papers (with Neil Longley York), Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility, The Anglo-American Legal Heritage, Frances Bacon, and The Civilian Jurists of Doctor’s Commons and editor of Law in Colonial Massachusetts, Daniel R. Coquillette is the J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor at Boston College and the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal Education at Harvard Law School and teaches and writes in...
Kerima Lewis teaches history at Massasoit Community College, Quincy College and Emerson College in Massachusetts.Having worked in the fields of social work and law before becoming a historian, she holds a B.A. degree from Northwestern University, a M.S.W. degree from the Hunter College School of Social Work, a Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.Dr. Lewis wrote her dissertation on the history of slave resistance in Colonial New England. Her article “Captives on the Move: Tracing the Transatlantic Movements of Africans from the West Indies to...
Serena Zabin is a Professor of History, Broom Fellow for Public Scholarship, and Chair of the History Department at Carleton College. She is the author of the prizewinning The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), which was also named an Amazon Editor’s Choice for History in 2020. The research for this book covers four countries and was supported by numerous grants, including the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice) and the American Council of Learned Societies.Professor Zabin is also the codesigner of a forthcoming video game, Witness to the Revolution, in partnership with Professors Austin Mason (Carleton...
Hiller B. ZobelBorn: February 23, 1932A.B. Harvard 1953, cum laude; LL.B. Harvard 1959U.S. Naval Reserve (LT-ret); active duty: 1953-1955Full time practice of law, Boston 1959-1967; part-time, 1967-1979 (Maritime law, general litigation, libel law)Assoc. Prof. and (tenured) Professor. Boston College Law School, 1967-1979Courses: Civil Procedure, Evidence, Introduction to Litigation, Copyright, Admiralty, Trial Practice, Judicial Process (seminar)Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1979-2002 (retired)Recalled Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, 2005-2009Associated with Resolutions, LLC, Boston: Mediation, Arbitration, and Neutral EvaluationConsultant, CRICO/RMF, Cambridge: Medical malpractice mattersAuthor:The Boston Massacre (1971; reissued, 1996), winner Sons of the Revolution in New York award (1972)Massachusetts Rules Practice (with James...