Evan D. McCormick, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar | Incite - Columbia University
Evan D. McCormick is a historian of the United States and the World. He joined Incite at Columbia University in 2019 as an associate research scholar on the Obama Presidency Oral History project, for which he focuses on the Obama administration’s foreign policies and the Obama presidency in a global context. He also leads the Obama Scholars Global Leadership Study, a ten-year prospective oral history project based on interviews with the Obama Foundation Scholars, a cohort of global change agents selected annually to spend a year at Columbia University World Projects.
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March 7, 2025
Episode 13: The Massacre
In response to rioting and protests over the Townshend Acts, the British deploy four regiments to Boston, leading to a deadly shooting on March 5, 1770, a massacre that wounds a family.
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Dec. 18, 2024
Episode 12: The Conspiracy
In the wake of the Stamp Act Crisis, the British chart a new course for empire in North America by imposing taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, pitting British Americans against Parliament…and each other.
Guests: Zara Anishanslin, Ph.D. , Patrick Griffin, Ph.D. , Norman Rodger , Hayley Madl , Grace Mallon, Ph.D. , Anne Fertig, Ph.D. , Kathryn Gehred , Beau Robbins , Christopher Minty, Ph.D. , Melissa Gismondi, Ph.D. , Rosemarie Zagarri, Ph.D. , Evan D. McCormick, Ph.D. , Jeanette Patrick , Alexandra Miller