Instructor: Richard Bell

Richard Bell

Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the book, "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home," which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award and the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Richard Bell is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program

Richard Bell has previously taught:

• The Fate of the World: The Global American Revolution
• The End of Empire? The American Revolution and the British Empire
• The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin