Mona Yacoubian is senior adviser and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She has more than thirty years of experience working on the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on conflict analysis, governance and stabilization challenges, and conflict prevention. She was previously vice president of the Middle East and North Africa Center at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), where she managed field programming in Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia as well as Washington, D.C.–based staff.

Two of Revere’s biographers make history fun in this animated conversation with the Executive Director of the Paul Revere House. They discuss all things Paul Revere — the man and the myth. While he is most famous today for the Midnight Ride, this talk will cover his life before and after the American Revolution.

Since 1986, Nina Zannieri has been the Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston, MA, which owns and operates a now fully accessible complex of three historic buildings that includes the Paul Revere House. Ms. Zannieri has held leadership positions in several national and regional professional museum organizations including American Alliance of Museum, New England Museum Association, and the American Association for State and Local History.

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Eileen Ka-May Cheng received her PhD from Yale University and is an associate professor of history at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing, 1784-1860 (2008) and Historiography: An Introductory Guide (2012). She is currently working on a book project on loyalist historians of the American Revolution and their legacy, entitled “The Loyalist Historians and Their Legacy: Plagiarizing the Nation,” and a book entitled “American Losers: How Defeat Made Our Democracy” (under contract to Yale University Press).

Ahsante Bean is a video storyteller and creator of Bean Thinking, a YouTube channel exploring American politics through history, psychology, and ideology. With a background in explanatory journalism, she challenges cultural myths and invites viewers to imagine a more just, inclusive democracy. A recent Us@250 Fellow with the New America Foundation, Ahsante is passionate about connecting the present to the past—including moments like Paul Revere’s ride that continue to echo in our national character.

Bill Schulz is a former cable news correspondent/co-host, a totally licensed NYC Tour Guide, and longtime contributor for publications including the New York Times, New York magazine, The Daily Beast, Maxim, New York Daily News, and Reader’s Digest. Schulz is also the 7th great-grandson of the Patriot William Dawes. In his words, “Truly, generating publicity for his long-forgotten ancestor/midnight-rider is the ONLY hobby this bitter journalist has.”

With J.L. Bell, Historian.

Beyond Paul Revere and his companions, Americans have passed along stories of other notable riders on April 19, 1775. Historian J. L. Bell investigates the facts and fiction behind such figures as Hezekiah Wyman, the dreaded “White Horseman”; Abel Benson and Abigail Smith, children said to have helped raise the alarm in Middlesex County; and Israel Bissell, the post rider credited with carrying news of the fight all the way to Philadelphia.

On the evening of April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren summoned Paul Revere and gave him the task of riding to Lexington, Massachusetts, with the news that British soldiers stationed in Boston were about to march into the countryside northwest of the town. The story of Revere's “Midnight Ride” has been told and retold over the past two and a half centuries, both as a historical event and as a national legend.This 3-part Lowell Lecture Series, presented by the Paul Revere Memorial Association, offers perspectives on the events of April 18, the various participants, and the lasting impact of the ride on our perspective today.Presented in partnership with GBH, the Suffolk University History Department, Old North Illuminated, Lexington History Museums, Evanston History Center at the Charles Gates Dawes House (Evanston, IL), and Made by Us, with funding from the Lowell Institute.All lectures are free and open to the public.

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