Robert A. Bellinger

Robert Bellinger is a public historian with a Ph.D. in history from Boston College. As the proprietor of Righting Histories, Dr. Bellinger engages in projects that involve research and interpretation of African American history, local histories, and historic sites. Dr. Bellinger serves on the boards of the Robbins House in Concord, Massachusetts, the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Rediscover Mapledale in Stow, Massachusetts, and Middleton Place in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Bellinger is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the African America Historical and Genealogical Society.

Particular Areas of Focus: African American history, Black Patriots in the American Revolution, Black Communities in 18th century Massachusetts

Publications:

Monuments, Memorials and Historic Sites, New England’s Visible Black History in Photographs. Photographs and Text by Robert A. Bellinger, Ph.D. AAHGS New England Chapter, Inc., 2017

Prince Estabrook: From Lexington Green to the Hudson River Valley, in Discover the Battle Road Today, Voyager Publishing, DiscoverConcordMA.com, 2025

What’s in A Name? The Frederick Gunn School Bulletin, December 2019 Dancing Through Time and Space: African Dance and the Géwël Tradition of Senegal at Suffolk University, Journal of Pan African Studies (on-line), Volume 6 Number 5, 2013, http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol6no5/6.5-Bellinger.pdf

The Géwël Tradition Project: Supporting A Living Tradition, African Arts, Spring 2013, Vol. 46, No. 1

Personal Webpage: https://rightinghistories.com