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| Robert J. AllisonHow Do You Write History? - Saturday 2:30 PM Robert J. Allison is chairman of the history department of Suffolk University in Boston and teaches there and at the Harvard Extension School. In addition to his most recent books, The American Revolution: A Concise History (2011) and A Short History of Cape Cod (2010), he has written The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815 (2000); A Short History of Boston (2004); Stephen Decatur, American Naval Hero (2005); The Boston Massacre (2006); and The Boston Tea Party (2007). He was a consultant to the Commonwealth Museum at the State Archives in Boston, and is a trustee of the USS Constitution Museum in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He is vice president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, an fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and president of the South Boston Historical Society. He and his family live in South Boston and summers in Provincetown on Cape Cod. Photo Credit: Mark Wilson. | | Lois BrownOpening Ceremony − Friday 6:00 PM Lois Brown joined the English Department at Mount Holyoke in 1998 and is the first holder of the Elizabeth Small endowe • Why You Not at any time Truly Come to an end a Book
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