Brendan McConville is a native of New Jersey. He received his undergraduate education at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and did his doctoral dissertation at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a fellow of the Thomas Watson Foundation in 1985-1986 and did research in Ireland during his fellowship period. He is the author of The Brethren: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America; The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America; and These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey, as well as being the co-creator and co-host of the radio program The Historians, which airs on 1550 AM Boston. He is a professor of history at Boston University, and is head of The David Center at the American Philosophical Society, as well as a trustee of the David Library of the American Revolution. Professor McConville is also a fellow of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Historical Society.