Dr. Brooke Barbier: Brooke Barbier is a public historian with a PhD in American history from Boston College. She is the author of King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father, which won the 2024 New England Historical Association James P. Hanlan Book Award, as well as the New England Society Nonfiction Book of the Year Award, and Boston in the American Revolution: A Town versus an Empire. She founded and operates Ye Olde Tavern Tours, a popular guided outing along Boston’s renowned Freedom Trail.