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Richard Bell. I am a scholar, writer, and teacher at the University of Maryland. My research focuses on the history and culture of the United States between 1750 and 1877. I am the author of the new book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (Simon & Schuster) and of two major online courses for The ...
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“In “Stolen” Richard Bell brings to life amoral con men,...
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ordinary Americans in the revolution. Click here to learn...
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RESEARCH AND WRITING (. CV. ) I received a BA from the...
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Richard Bell. Stolen Book Great Courses Research Talks &...
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VIRTUAL: American History Mondays with Dr. Richard Bell: The...
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Hamilton - Richard Bell
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At Maryland, I teach the following courses: Graduate:...
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Frederick Douglass - Richard Bell
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Research Expertise. Richard Bell received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA from the University of Cambridge. His research interests focus on American history between 1750 and 1877 and he welcomes enquiries from graduate students working in this period. Visit his website.
May 2023. Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize.
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home. Published by Simon & Schuster in 2019, it was the recipient of the NEH Public Scholar Award and a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Stolenis the true story of five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in t...
“Counterfeit Kin: Kidnappers of Color, the Reverse Underground Railroad, and the Origins of Practical Abolition,” Journal of the Early Republic38, no. 2 (2018), 199-230. “The Moral Thermometer: Rush, Republicanism, and Suicide,” Early American Studies15, no. 2 (2017), 308-331. “’Thence to Patty Cannon’s’: Gender, Family, and the Reverse Underground...
“Introduction” in Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America, ed. Michele Lise Tarter and Richard Bell (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012): 1-32. Co-authored with Michele Lise Tarter. “Weeping for Werther: Suicide, Sympathy and the Reading Revolution in Early America” in The History of Reading: International Perspectives, c.1500-1990, ed. ...
Richard Bell is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His research interests focus on American history between 1750 and 1877. His most recent book, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home, was shortlisted for the 2020 George Washington Prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize.
We shall be no more: Suicide and self-government in the newly United States. R Bell. Harvard University Press. , 2012. 72. 2012. Slave suicide, abolition and the problem of resistance. R Bell. Slavery & Abolition 33 (4), 525-549.
Richard Bell holds a PhD in American History from Harvard University and is currently a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. He is the author of the new book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home and a specialist in American history between the Revolution and the Civil War.
