Author James Conroy
James B. Conroy is an award-winning author of narrative history and an honorary fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Conroy has spoken at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois; the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York; the National Archives in Washington, D.C.; The Boston Athenaeum; The World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana; Renaissance Weekend in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Ottawa, and many other venues in the United States and Canada. He lives with his wife of 53 years, Lynn Fitzgerald Conroy, in Hingham, Massachusetts.
An afternoon with Ken Burns
A “superb” explanation of the American Revolution “from the bottom up . . . important ground breaking scholarship.” - Lord Andrew Roberts, author of The Last King of America
“James Conroy has brought a pivotal moment in world history to vivid and engaging life...” - Jon Meacham, author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
“An ambitious, enlightening, and brilliantly realized project.” Peter S. Onuf, Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas Jefferson Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia
