Benjamin L. Carp holds the Daniel M. Lyons Chair of American History as associate professor of early American history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), which won the Society of the Cincinnati Cox Book Prize in 2013; and Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).