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John Hancock<\/strong><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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Lecture Date: March 17, 2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Roxanne M. Kaufman ’08 Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Americans are surprisingly more familiar with John Hancock\u2019s famous signature than with the man himself. In King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father<\/em>, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions\u2015a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk, and a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to independence. About two-fifths of the American population held neutral or ambivalent views about the Revolution; Hancock spoke for them and to them, bringing them along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker: Brooke Barbier<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Brooke Barbier is a public historian who received her PhD in American history from Boston College. In addition to the award-winning King <\/em>Hancock, she is the author of Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire.<\/em> In 2013, Barbier founded Ye Olde Tavern Tours, a popular outing on Boston’s Freedom Trail that takes guests into historic sites and taverns to learn about the city’s storied past. Her next book, Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution<\/em> (June 2026), examines the influence of alcohol on the American Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-62975","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1263","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJohn Hancock - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/john-hancock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Hancock\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lecture Date: March 17, 2026 The Roxanne M. 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