![]() ![]() historians, his vast awareness of the visual culture of the time and acuity in locating their presence in the details and shards of the pictorial record. ![]() That evening, Al delineated the artisans’ world in eighteenth-century Boston and the stakes for and impact on the city’s working people in their participation in making the Revolution-all offered with his intimate knowledge of their lives and, still so unusual among U.S. Herb dragged Steve Brier and me up to an unusually crowded session of the Columbia University Early American Seminar where Al presented his work on George Robert Twelves Hewes, the Boston shoemaker and participant of/witness to the Boston Massacre and Tea Party, the subject of his groundbreaking 1981 article in the William and Mary Quarterly (which he later expanded into his 2000 book The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution). I first met Al through Herb Gutman during the American Social History Project’s first year. The historian Alfred Young died yesterday at the age of 87. ![]()
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