Apr 13
POSTPONED: Everything Must Go: Property, Uncertainty, and Freedom in the 1776 Evacuation of Boston, with Professor Serena Zabin
Carls in Milwaukee are invited to
Everything Must Go: Property, Uncertainty, and Freedom in the 1776 Evacuation of Boston
with Professor Serena Zabin
Monday, April 13, 2026
Time
4:30 p.m.
Location
Marquette University
Raynor Library, Beaumier Suites B&C
1355 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Marquette University's Department of History will host the annual Professor Frank L. Klement Lecture. This year’s lecture will be given by Dr. Serena Zabin, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College. She will discuss property, uncertainty and freedom in the 1776 evacuation of Boston.
A past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Zabin is the author of numerous works on early America, most notably the multi-award-winning The Boston Massacre: A Family History (2020).
Cost
This program is free
Serena Zabin is the Stephen R. Lewis Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts at Carleton. Her research focuses on families, gender, and politics in the era of the American Revolution. She is the author of Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York and the prizewinning The Boston Massacre: A Family History. At Carleton, she has served as the chair of the history department, the director of the American studies program, and the Broom Fellow for Public Scholarship. In that last role, she and her students crafted civic engagement projects in partnerships with public history organizations in Minnesota, Boston, and Washington, DC. In 2024–25 she was awarded the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellowship in Early American History at the Huntington Library to work on her new research project, American Affections: The Life of Mary Fish Noyes Silliman Dickinson, 1736–1818.
Questions?
Contact Alumni Relations via email at alumni-office@carleton.edu or 800-729-2586.