Lecture: How to Radicalize a Moderate: John Hancock and the Outbreak of the Revolutionary War

$30.00

3/9/2025 @ 3PM

Speakers will be live at the Hingham Heritage Museum and all programs will be offered via zoom webinar as well

Brooke Barbier

Brooke Barbier is a public historian with a PhD in American History from Boston College. She is the author of King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard University Press) and Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire. Because she believes beer makes history even better, she founded Ye Olde Tavern Tours in 2013, a popular guided outing along Boston’s renowned Freedom Trail.

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Brooke Barbier

Brooke Barbier is a public historian with a PhD in American History from Boston College. She is the author of King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father (Harvard University Press) and Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire. Because she believes beer makes history even better, she founded Ye Olde Tavern Tours in 2013, a popular guided outing along Boston’s renowned Freedom Trail.