He has published two books: Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) and Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). He has a BA from Yale University and a PhD from the University of Virginia, and he previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. He has received the Leverhulme Research Fellowship and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Watch Carp’s C-SPAN/BOOKTV talk on the Boston Tea Party. Reporting the Revolutionary War sections: Tea Act in America, Boston Tea Party.