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“Who was Paul Revere, Really?” with Dr. Robert Martello, Dr. Jayne Triber, and Nina Zannieri
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Two of Revere’s biographers will speak with the Executive Director of the Paul Revere House on Paul Revere, the man and the myth. While today he is most famous for his Midnight Ride, this talk will cover his life before and after the Revolution as well.
Dr. Robert Martello is a Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Olin College. He offers faculty development workshops on the subjects of interdisciplinary education, student motivation, and self-directed project-based learning, for educators around the world. He has chaired efforts that re-imagined Olin’s faculty reappointment and promotion, institutional outreach, and curricular innovation. Professor Martello is the author of Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, a study of Revere’s multifaceted career and national impacts. He is currently researching Benjamin Franklin’s printing and business endeavors, and regularly lectures on Revere and Franklin, our “Founding Makers,” for audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
Jayne E. Triber, author of A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), is an independent historian and public speaker who received a Ph.D from Brown University. She began her career as a historical interpreter at the Paul Revere House and later worked as a state and National Park Service ranger in Massachusetts and as a college instructor. She is also the author of a wide variety of articles, textbook chapters, research papers, and curriculum material on the American Revolution and the post-Revolutionary era and has appeared in documentaries for the Biography and History channels.
Since 1986, Nina Zannieri has been the Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston, MA, which owns and operates a now fully accessible complex of three historic buildings that includes the Paul Revere House. Ms. Zannieri has held leadership positions in several national and regional professional museum organizations including American Alliance of Museum, New England Museum Association, and the American Association for State and Local History. In 2015 she received a NEMA Lifetime Achievement Award. She currently sits on the board of the Freedom Trail Foundation, Seamans Port and Aid Society, Harvard University Museum Studies Advisory Board, and is a member of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Cultural Organization Working Group Leadership team. She received her BA in history from Boston College and her MA in Anthropology/Museum Studies from Brown University.
This lecture is presented as a part of Paul Revere Memorial Association's 2025 Lowell Lecture series, “Whose Midnight Ride? Reflections on the 250th Anniversary of the Famous Ride.” On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes set out from Boston with information to convey to key Patriot leaders and to local Patriot militiamen. The story of the “Midnight Ride,” on the eve of the Revolutionary War, has been told and retold over the past two and a half centuries, both as a historical event and as a national legend. The 2025 Lowell Lecture Series will share perspectives on the events of April 18, the various participants, and on what it means to people looking back on the ride today.
Lectures take place on Tuesdays, September 16 and 30 and October 21 and 28 at 6:30-7:45 pm. Lectures are free to the public and can be watched online at youtube.com/gbhforumnetwork and in person at Smith Commons (5th floor), Sargent Hall, Suffolk University, 120 Tremont Street. The lectures will be recorded and available after the fact.
Presented in partnership with GBH, the Suffolk University History Department, Old North Illuminated, Lexington History Museums, Evanston History Center at the Charles Gates Dawes House (Evanston, IL), and Made by Us, with funding from the Lowell Institute.
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