Speaker: Dr. Richard Bell, Historian and Professor, University of Maryland   Dr. Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, a finalist for both the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held distinguished fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress, and is the recipient of the NEH Public Scholar Award and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. His newest book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, was published by Penguin in November 2025.  In this compelling program, Dr. Bell reframes the American Revolution not as a two-sided colonial rebellion, but as a global conflict that reshaped societies on six continents—from Caribbean sugar islands to refugee communities in Canada, from political revolutions in Sierra Leone and Peru to the courts of India. He traces how the war’s upheaval transformed the lives of the people it displaced, empowered, or destroyed.