Robert J. Allison is a professor of history at Suffolk University, and also teaches in Harvard’s Extension School. His books include The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) and The Boston Massacre (Beverly, Massachusetts: Commonwealth Editions, 2006), and is co-editor with Bernard Bailyn of The Essential Debate on the Constitution (New York: Library of America, 2018). He also prepared the Teaching Company’s courses, “Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies” (2009) and “The Age of Benjamin Franklin” (2018). He is currently writing a book about the USS Constitution’s 1840s world cruise. He chairs the advisory committee for Revolution 250 (https://revolution250.org/), a consortium of organizations commemorating the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution. robertallisonhistory.com