Meet Richard Bell:
Dr. Richard Bell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. British by birth and sense of humour, he holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Rick has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Historical Society, as an elected member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Rick is the author of two books, one about the history of suicide in America, the other (due out in October 2019) about kidnapping and slavery in the early United States. And he's obsessed with Hamilton: the Musical