• September 2017 Presentation: Eyewitness Images from the American Revolution

    September 2017 Presentation: Eyewitness Images from the American Revolution

    Presentation Date: Monday September 25, 2017   Add to Calendar Most images depicting the American Revolution are historically inaccurate nineteenth- and twentieth-century recreations. Historian Arthur S. Lefkowitz is working to change this. Lefkowitz gathered images from artists who were eyewitnesses to the events of our War for Independence. His research in museums and private collections […]

  • October 2017 Presentation: George and Martha Washington In Perfect Felicity

    October 2017 Presentation: George and Martha Washington In Perfect Felicity

    Presentation Date: Monday October 30, 2017 Add to Calendar What makes a good marriage?   Washington’s own advice on love and marriage echoes through the words of our First Couple as they share the story of their courtship, former loves, the trials during the War for Independence, and the tribulations of the Presidency upon their 40-year […]

  • November 2017 Presentation: Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution

    November 2017 Presentation: Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution

    Presentation Date: Monday November 27, 2017 Add to Calendar Benjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow. The American colonies were not logistically prepared for the revolution and this became painfully obvious in war’s first years. Trade networks were destroyed, inflation undermined the economy, and American artisans could not […]

  • December 2017 Presentation: Lock Stock & Barrel

    December 2017 Presentation: Lock Stock & Barrel

    Presentation Date: Monday December 18, 2017 Add to Calendar Learn how on a warm September 11th morning, exactly 240 years ago, a mixed American army of Continental Troops, State Troops, and local Militia met and fought a British/German army on the banks of the Brandywine River. Much has been written about that battle, but little […]

  • January 2018 Presentation: George III and the Parliamentary Politics of Revolution

    January 2018 Presentation: George III and the Parliamentary Politics of Revolution

    Presentation Date: Monday, January 29, 2018 Add to Calendar Among students of the American Revolution, George III is widely recognized as the ‘mad’ king who lost the American colonies. The years of revolutionary upheaval, from the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Treaty of Paris in 1783, coincided with a period of political instability in […]

  • February 2018 Presentation: Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania

    February 2018 Presentation: Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania

    Presentation Date: Monday February 26, 2018 Add to Calendar In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood it as […]

  • March 2018 Presentation: Allen McLane

    March 2018 Presentation: Allen McLane

    Presentation Date: Monday March 26, 2018 Add to Calendar Allen McLane, born in Philadelphia in 1746, moved to Delaware in the late 1760’s, married Rebecca Wells and settled in Duck Creek Crossroads (now Smyrna) where he set up a business making men’s leather pants.  When the fires of independence began to emerge in the colonies, […]

  • April 2018 Presentation: General Daniel Morgan

    April 2018 Presentation: General Daniel Morgan

    Presentation Date: Monday April 30, 2018 Add to Calendar Robert E. Sheridan is a marine geophysicist and marine geologist who studied the North American Atlantic continental margin for over fifty years. He has a bachelor’s degree in geology from Rutgers University and a master’s and Ph.D. degrees in marine geophysics from Columbia University. He was […]

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