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Abby Chandler

Abby Chandler is Associate Professor of Early American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her second book, “Seized with the Temper of the Times”: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America, was published in 2023. She is also the lead editor for H-Net’s “Remembering the American Revolution at 250” essay collection.
Particular Areas of Interest: Revolutionary era protest movements in British North America, Anglo-American political and legal history
Publications:
“Seized with the Temper of the Times”: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America, Westholme, 2023
“‘But by the Law of this Colony’: The Gaspee Affair in American History” in The Bridge: The Gaspee Affair in Context, Rhode Island History, 79, no. 2 (2022): 1-14.
“‘Let us unanimously lay aside foreign Superfluities’: Textile Production and British Colonial Identity in the 1760s,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021, 19, no. 1 (2021): 138-165
“‘The Basis of Alienation will never be healed’: The Historicity of Protest in Ezra Stiles’ Stamp Act Notebook” in Yvonne Fuentes and Mark Malin, Eds., Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century (Routledge, 2021)
“‘Unawed by the Laws of their Country’: Finding Legal and Political Legitimacy in North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion,” North Carolina Historical Review 93, no. 2 (2016): 1-28.
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