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Video: Book Breaks Benjamin L. Carp - "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" Government and Civics Benjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History at Brooklyn College and also teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Order The Great New York Fire of 1776 at the Gilder Lehrman Book...