Richard Bell

Richard Bell teaches Early American history at the University of Maryland. He has received several teaching prizes and major research fellowships including the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award.

His first book, We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States, was published in 2012. His second book, co-edited with Michele Lise Tarter, Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America, was published the same year. His new book, Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home, was published in 2019.