Serena Zabin, PhD, is a professor of history and director of the American studies program at Carleton College. She is the author of The Boston Massacre: A Family HistoryDangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York and The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings. She is also the codesigner of a forthcoming serious video game about the Boston Massacre, Witness to the Revolution.

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