2025
January 27, 2024 — (Zoom Presentation) Program Topic: Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America
Speaker: Vaughn Scribner, Author
February 24, 2025 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic
Speaker: Michael Blaakman, Author
March 31, 2025 — (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment
Speaker: Sheilah Vance, Author
April 28, 2025 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: “The Disagreeable Situation”: American Prisoner Administration in the Revolutionary War
Speaker: Dr. Susan Brynne Long
May 19, 2025 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: “German Soldier, American Rebel: Christopher Ludwick’s Pursuits of Happiness in Revolutionary Pennsylvania”
Speaker: Shawn David McGhee
June 23, 2025 — (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Remember Paoli!
Speaker: Jim Christ, President, Paoli Battlefield Preservation Fund
July 28, 2025 — (Zoom Presentation) Program Topic: John Hancock: First to Sign, First to Invest in America’s Independence
Speaker: Willard Sterne Randall, Distinguished Scholar in History and Professor Emeritus at Champlain College
2024
January 29, 2024 – (Zoom Presentation) Program Topic: The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic
Speaker: Shira Lurie, Historian
February 26, 2024 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Naked and torn by the Grapeshot – Fort Mercer and the history, archaeology, and public perceptions of a mass burial space at Red Bank Battlefield Park
Speaker: Dr. Jen Janofsky, Professor of Public History and Practice at Rowan University. She is also the Director of Red Bank Battlefield Park
March 25, 2024 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Revolutionary Princeton 1774-1783: The Biography of an American Town in the Heart of a Civil War
Speaker: Larry Kidder Author and Historian
April 29, 2024 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens, 1774-1776
Speaker: Shawn David McGhee
May 20, 2024 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779
Speaker: Andrea Lynn Smith, Author and Historian
June 24, 2024 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Misconceptions about Washington at Brandywine
Speaker – Gary Ecelbarger, Author and Historian
July 29, 2024 – (Online Presentation) Program Topic: South Carolina Provincials: Loyalists in British Service During the American Revolution
Speaker – Jim Piecuch, Author and Historian
August 26, 2024 – (Online Presentation) Program Topic: The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
Speaker: Cynthia A. Kierner, Author and Professor George Mason University
September 24, 2024 — (Live Presentation) Program Topic: The Battle of Edge Hill
Speaker: Robert N. Fanelli, Historian
October 29, 2024 — (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson
Speaker: Jane E. Calvert, Author and Historian
November 26, 2024 — (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Defending Fort Stanwix: A Story of the New York Frontier in the American Revolution
Speaker: Larry Kidder, Author and Historian
December 17, 2024 – (Online Presentation) Program Topic: William Campbell in the American Revolution Commander of Riflemen at Kings Mountain and Guilford Courthouse
Speaker: John Beakes, Author
2023
January 30,2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
Speaker: Friederike Baer, Author
February 27, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter
Speaker, Ricardo A. Herrera, Author
March 27, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Smallpox in Washington’s Army: Disease, War, and Society during the Revolutionary War
Speaker: Ann M. Becker, Author
April 24, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Conceived in Crisis: The Revolutionary Creation of an American State
Speaker: Christopher Pearl, Author
May 22, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution
Speaker: Benjamin Carp, Author
June 26, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America
Speaker: Jacqueline Beatty, Author
July 21, 2023– (Online Presentation) Program Topic: The Battle of Musgrove’s Mill, 1780
Speaker: Jack Buchanan, Historian and Author
August 28, 2023 – (Online Presentation) Program Topic: East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785
Speaker: George Kotlik, Author
September 26, 2023 – Live Presentation) Program Topic: Dark Voyage : An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trade
Speaker: Christian McBurney, Author
October 24, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money
Speaker: Farley Grubb, Author
November 28, 2023 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Prisoners Of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777-1778
Speaker: Norman E. Donoghue II, Author
December 19, 2023 — (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Dishonored Americans: The Political Death of Loyalists in Revolutionary America
Speaker: Timothy Compeau, Author
2022
January 31, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
Speaker: Rod Andrews Jr., Author
February, 28, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Speaker: David Head, Author
March 28, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father
Speaker: Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author
April 25, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War
Speaker: J. L. Bell
May 23, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
Speaker: Kevin Weddle, Author
June 27, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
Speaker: T. Cole Jones, Author
July 25, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists
Speaker: Rebecca Brannon, Author
August 29, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
Speaker – Michael Hattem, Author
September 26, 2022 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Women Waging War in the American Revolution
Speaker: Dr. Holly Mayer, Historian and Author
October 24, 2022 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for the Control of Philadelphia, October 4, 1777
Speaker: Michael Harris, Author
November 27, 2022 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution
Speaker: Don Hagist, Author
December 19, 2022 – (Live Presentation) Program Topic: December 19, 2022 – Decision at Brandywine: The Battle on Birmingham Hill
Speaker: Robert “Bert” M. Dunkerly, Author
2021
January 25, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion
Speaker : John Knight, Author
February 22, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Speaker: Dr. Kathleen DuVal, Author
March 29, 2021 (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Speaker: Donald F Johnson, Author
April 26, 2021 (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Congress’s Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union
Speaker: Dr. Holly A. Mayer, Author
May 24, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast, 1775-1783
Speaker: Donald Grady Shomette, Author
June 28, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Washington’s Engineer: Louis Duportail and the Creation of an Army Corps
Speaker: Norman Desmarais, Author and Historian
July 26, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781
Speaker: John Ferling, Author and Historian
August 30, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History
Speaker: Kate Carté, Author and Historian
September 27, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic : The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Speaker: Dr. Joseph J Ellis, Author and Historian
October 25, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Revolutionary Surgeons: Patriots and Loyalists on the Cutting Edge
Speaker: Per-Olaf Hasselgren, Author
November 29, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Speaker: Dr. Woody Holton, Author and Historian
December 20, 2021 – (On-Line Presentation) Porgram Topic: George Washington’s Nemesis: The Outrageous Treason and Unfair Court-Martial of Major General Charles Lee during the Revolutionary War
Speaker: Christian McBurney
2020
January 27, 2020 – Program Topic: Battle of the Clouds
Speaker: Chris Reardon, Historian
February 24, 2020 – Program Topic: Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West 1765-1776
Speaker: Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia
May 18, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: The Boston Massacre: A Family History
Speaker: Serena Zabin, Author
June 8, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: World of Trouble: A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey through the American Revolution
Speaker: Richard Godbeer, Author
June 29, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown
Speaker: Stanley D. M. Carpenter, Author
July 20, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution
Speaker: Kacy Dowd Tillman, Historian and Author
August 10, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army
Speaker: John Gilbert McCurdy, Author
August 24, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: 1774: The Long Year of Revolution
Speaker: Mary Beth Norton, Historian and Author
September 28, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic: The Disaffected: Britain’s Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Speaker: Aaron Sullivan, Professor and Historian
October 26,2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic : American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution
Speaker : Nina Sankovitch, Author
November 23, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic : The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Speaker: Colin G. Calloway, Author
December 21, 2020 – (On-Line Presentation) Program Topic : The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Speaker: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Author
2019
January 28, 2019 – Program Topic: “Crossroads of the Revolution: Trenton 1774-1783”
Speaker: Larry Kidder, Author and Historian
February 25, 2019 – Program Topic: “Benjamin Franklin’s Navy”
Speaker: Tim McGrath, Author and Historian
March 25, 2019 – Program Topic: “The Southern Campaign”
Speaker: David Lawrence, National Park Service Ranger
April 9, 2019 – Program Topic: “The Life of John Andre: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold”
Speaker: Douglas Ronald, Author
April 29, 2019 – Program Topic: “Archaeology and the Exploration and Preservation of Revolutionary War Battlefields“
Speaker: Wade P. Catts, MA, RPA, President of South River Heritage Consulting, LLC
May 20, 2019 – Program Topic: “Battle of Hubbarton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America”
Speaker: Dr. Bruce M. Venter, Author and Historian
June 24, 2019 – Program Topic: “Valley Forge”
Speaker: Bob Drury, Author and Historian
September 30, 2019 – Program Topic: “Cabal! The Plot Against George Washington”
Speaker: Mark Edward Lender, Author and Historian
October 28, 2019 – Program Topic: “Captain Diel Rockefeller and the Albany Militia: Victories at Saratoga and in the Mohawk Valley”
Speaker: Robert E. Sheridan, Retired Professor Rutgers University
November 25, 2019 – Program Topic” “The Caribbean During the American Revolution“
Speaker: Russell Brinley, National Park Service Ranger
2018
January 29, 2018 – Program Topic : “George III and the Parliamentary Politics of Revolution“
Speaker: Kathleen Connolly Flanagan, Historian
February 26, 2018 – Program Topic : “Frontier Country the Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania“
Speaker : Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library in Philadelphia
March 26, 2018 – Program Topic : “Allen McLane”
Speaker : Tom Welsh, Historical Interpreter
April 30, 2018 – Program Topic: “General Daniel Morgan“
Speaker: Robert E. Sheridan, Retired Professor Rutgers University
May 21, 2018 – Program Topic : “Lancaster Road and the American Revolution”
Speaker: Thomas McGuire, Historian and Author
June 25, 2018 – Program Topic : “Revolutionary Renegade : The Life of General Charles Lee“
Speaker: Phillip Papas, Author and Senior Professor of History at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey
September 24, 2018 – Program Topic : “Benjamin Rush: Revolution, Madness & the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father”
Speaker: Stephen Fried, award-winning investigative journalist and essayist, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism
October 29, 2018 -Program Topic : “Israel Putnam : Hero of the American Revolution”
Speaker: Robert Ernest Hubbard, Author
November 26, 2018 – Program Topic : “Red Tape and the Revolution”
Speaker: Bob Sullivan, Rare Documents Expert
2017
January 30, 2017 – Program Topic : “Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments“
Speaker: Mike Kochan, Living Historian
February 27, 2017 – Program Topic : “Brothers in Arms: American Independence and the Men of France and Spain Who Saved It” Speaker: Larrie D. Ferreiro, Author
March 27, 2017 – Program Topic: “The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution”
Speaker: John Oliver, Author
April 24, 2017 – Program Topic: “Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era”
Speaker: Glenn F. Williams, Author
May 22, 2017 – Program Topic: “George Washington: First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His – and the Nation’s – Prosperity“
Speaker: Edward G. Lengel – Author, Chief Historian, The White House Historical Association
June 26, 2017 – Program Topic: “Grand Forage 1778: The Battle Ground around New York City“
Speaker: Todd W. Braisted, Author and Historian
September 25, 2017 – Program Topic: “Eyewitness Images from the American Revolution”
Speaker: Arthur S. Lefkowitz, Author and Historian
October 30, 2017 – Program Topic: “George and Martha Washington In Perfect Felicity”
Speakers: Carol Spacht and John Lopes, Living Historians
November 27, 2017 – Program Topic: “Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution”
Speaker: Robert F. Smith, Assistant Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences at Northampton Community College, and Author
December 18, 2017 – Program Topic: “Lock, Stock, and Barrel”
Speaker: Chris Reardon, Historian
2016
January 25, 2016 – Meeting Cancelled – Ice and Snow
February 29, 2016 – Program Topic: “John Adams”
Speaker: Peyton Dixon, Living Historian
(Awarded The Benjamin Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award to Dean Malissa)
March 28, 2016 – Program Topic: “Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777”
Speaker: Michael Harris, Author
April 25, 2016 – Program Topic: “After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence”
Speaker: Don Glickstein, Author
May 23, 2016 – Program Topic: “The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs”
Speaker: Don Hagist, Author
June 27, 2016 – Program Topic: “Requisitioning by the Contiental Army”
Speaker: Steve Elliot (on his Award Winning Article on his Master’s thesis. He has been on the interpretive staff at Morristown National Park and is a PhD candidate at Temple University)
September 26, 2016 – Program Topic : “Fort Mifflin: The Fort that Saved America“
Speaker: Elizabeth Beatty, Executive Director, Fort Mifflin
October 24, 2016 – Program Topic : “Battle of Crooked Billet“
Speaker: Scott Randolph, Director and Executive Producer
November 21, 2016 – Program Topic : “Abductions in the American Revolution“
Speaker: Christian McBurney, Author
December 19, 2016 – Program Topic : “Revolutionary Delaware“
Speaker: Kim Burdick, President American Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware
2015
January 26, 2015 – Meeting Cancelled – Snow
February 23, 2015 – Program Topic: “A Sea Change: Naval Warfare in the American Revolution in the Spring of 1778”
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Conrad
March 30, 2015 – Program Topic: “Give Me a Fast Ship”
Speaker: Tim McGrath, Author
April 27, 2015 – Program Topic: “Christ Church and the Interpretation of a National Shrine”
Speaker: Neil Ronk, Chief Historian at Christ Church, Philadelphia
May 18, 2015 – Program Topic: “The Turtle”
Speaker: Mike Kochan, Author
June 29, 2015 – Program Topic: “Battle of Bennington”
Speaker: Dr. Michael Gabriel History Department, Kutztown University
September 28, 2015 – Program Topic: “The Great Divide between Washington and Jefferson”
Speaker: Thomas Fleming, Author
October 26, 2015 – Cancelled by Restaurant
November 30, 2015 – Program Topic: “Washington & Hamilton: The Alliance that Created America”
Speaker: Tony Wiliams, Author
December 28, 2015 – Program Topic: “Winter Encampment at Morristown and Jockey Hollow, NJ”
Speaker: Bill Ferraro, Associate Editor of the George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia
2014
January 27, 2014 – Program Topic: “Seized in September: Revolutionary War in Delaware in the fall of 1777”
Speaker: Kim Burdick, President American Revolution Round Table of Northern Delaware
February 24, 2014 – Program Topic: “Sixty Men at Monmouth”
Speaker: Don N. Hagist, Author
March 31, 2014 – Program Topic: “Enemies of Britain in the Atlantic World, 1750-1800”
Speaker: Ruma Chopra
April 28, 2014 – Program Topic: “A Taste of History” TV show”
Speaker: Chef Walter Staib from City Tavern, Philadelphia and “A Taste of History” TV show
May 19, 2014 – Program Topic: “Chaplains of the Revolution”
Speaker: William Troppman, National Park Service
June 30, 2014 – Program Topic: “Charles Thomson (the Secretary to the Continental Congress) The Man America Forgot”
Speaker: Bruce Gill, Executive Director and Curator of the Harriton Association
September 29, 2014 – Program Topic: “Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty”
Speaker: Dr. Samuel A. Forman, Author
October 27, 2014 – Program Topic: “A People Harrassed and Exhausted on the 1st Hunterdon County New Jersey Militia”
Speaker: William Kidder, Author
November 24, 2014 – Program Topic: “Black Loyalists”
Speaker: Dr. John J. McLaughlin, Author
December 29, 2014 – Program Topic: “Kidnapping the Enemy: the Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott”
Speaker: Christian McBurney, Author
2013
January 30, 2013 – Program Topic: “The Turtle”
Speaker: Mike Kochan, Living Historian
February 27, 2013 – Program Topic: “My Brother’s Keeper – Acts of Mercy During the American Revolution”
Speaker: Daniel N. Rolph, PhD, Head of Reference Services at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and Montgomery County College
March 27, 2013 – Program Topic: “Independence, A Guide to Philadelphia”
Speaker: George W. Boudreau, Author
April 24, 2013 – Program Topic: “Reporting The American Revolution”
Speaker: Bruce Mowday, Author (on the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown for this book)
May 22, 2013 – Program Topic: “Defiant Brides; The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men they Married”
Speaker: Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author
June 26, 2013 – Program Topic: “Thomas Paine”
Speaker: Steve Gulick, Living Historian
September 25, 2013 – Program Topic: “British Occupation of Philadelphia”
Speaker: Aaron Sullivan
October 30, 2013 – Program Topic: “Cavalry of the American Revolution”
Speaker: Jim Piecuch
November 20, 2013 – Program Topic: “Dr. Benjamin Church, Spy: A Case of Espionage on the Eve of the American Revolution”
Speaker: John A. Nagy, Author
December 4, 2013 – Program Topic: “Forgotten Emancipator, George Washington”
Speaker: Thomas Fleming, Author
2012
January 25, 2012 – Program Topic: “More Trifling Events During the Occupation of Philadelphia”
Speaker: Dennis Cooke
February 22, 2012 – Program Topic: “Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite view of the American Revolution”
Speaker: John Roma, Author (Local picture of events in the neighborhood of the Perkiomen and Skippack Creeks, 1777-1778)
March 28, 2012 – Program Topic: “The American Revolution in Monmouth County: The Theatre of Spoil and Destruction (NJ)”
Speaker: Michael S. Adelberg, Author
April 25, 2012 – Program Topic: “Dr. Benjamin Franklin”
Speaker: Bill Ochester, Living Historian
May 23, 2012 – Program Topic: “George Washington’s Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis”
Speaker: Richard Borkow, Author
June 27, 2012 – Program Topic: “The Rhode Island Campaign”
Speaker: Christian McBurney, Author
September 26, 2012 – Program Topic: “Fighting for Freedom: Choosing Sides Africans in The American Revolution”
Joseph Becton, Assistant District Ranger, Independence Hall Park
October 24, 2012 – Program Topic: “Pennsylvania Associators, 1747-1777”
Speaker: Joseph Seymour, Author
November 28, 2012 – Program Topic: “Caroline Herschel, 18th Century Astronomer – A Cinderella Story”
Speaker: K. Lynn King, Living Historian
2011
January 26, 2011 – Meeting Cancelled due to Snow.
February 23, 2011 – Program Topic: “George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps”
Speaker: Barnet Schecter, Author
March 23, 2011 – Meeting Cancelled by Restaurant
April 27, 2011 – Program Topic: “The American Vicars of Bray”: Altering allegiances and the recruitment of the Provincial Corps at Philadelphia, 1777-1778”
Speaker: Todd Braisted, Author
May 25, 2011 – Program Topic: “The Quotable Ethan Allen”
Speaker: J. Kevin Graffagnino
June 22, 2011 – Program Topic: “Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution”
Speaker: John A. Nagy, Author
September 28, 2011 – Program Topic: “Ethan Allen: His Life and Times”
Speaker: Willard Sterne Randall, Author
October 26, 2011 – Program Topic: “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction”
Speaker: John Fea, Associate Professor at Messiah College, Author
November 16, 2011 – Program Topic: “Abigail Adams”
Speaker: Kim Hanley, Living Historian
December 7, 2011 – Program Topic: “General John Lacey & the Pennsylvania Militia”
Speaker: Dennis Cooke, Living Historian
2010
January 27, 2010 – Program Topic: “September 11, 1777: Washington’s Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia”
Speaker: Bruce Mowday, Author
February 24, 2010 – Program Topic: “How the British Army defended Philadelphia during their occupation from September 1777 to June 1778”
Speaker: Torben Jenk, Historian and Builder (An illustrated presentation of rare manuscript maps and the accounts of their designer, the Chief Engineer in America, Captain John Montresor (1736-1799))
March 24, 2010 – Program Topic: “Revolutionary War Spy Technology 101”
Speaker: John A. Nagy, Author of Invisible Ink Spycraft of the American Revolution
April 28, 2010 – Program Topic: “Picturing the Revolution: The Pennsylvania/New Jersey Connection”
Speaker: Barbara Mitnick
May 26, 2010 – Program Topic: “Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the American Revolution”
Speaker: Pulitzer Prize winning author Edwin G. Burrows
June 26, 2010 – Program Topic: “A Revolutionary War Era Panel”
Speakers: A Revolutionary War Era Panel Discussion between Dean Malissa as General George Washington, Steven Edenbo as Thomas Jefferson, and Bill Ochester as Benjamin Franklin. The Moderator will be John A. Nagy, author and President of the American Revolutionary War Round Table of Philadelphia. (Held at the Valley Forge National Park Theater, Valley Forge, PA 19002)
September 22, 2010 – Program Topic: “John Barry An American Hero in the Age of Sail”
Speaker: Tim McGrath, Author
October 27, 2010 – Program Topic: “Now We are Enemies”
Speaker: Tom Fleming on the release of his 50th Anniversary edition of his book about the Battle of Bunker Hill.
November 17, 2010 – Program Topic: “Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love”
Speaker: Tom Keels, Author, on the Mischianza held in Philadelphia in 1778.
December 1, 2010 – Program Topic: “Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution”
Speaker: Charles Rappleye, Author
2009
February 25, 2009 – Program Topic: “Museum of the American Revolution”
Speaker: R. Scott Stephenson, PhD, American Revolution Center Director of Collections and Interpretation.
March 25, 2009 – Program Topic: “The Siege of Yorktown: the Decisive Engagement of the American War for Independence”
Speaker: Glenn Williams
April 22, 2009 – Program Topic: “Geroge Washington”
Speaker: Dean Malissa, Living Historian
May 27, 2009 – “Franklin’s Lost Philadelphia”
Speaker: Tom Keels (colonial buildings of Philadelphia that are no longer standing)
June 24, 2009 – Program Topic: “Lewd, Enormous and Disorderly Practices, Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia and its English Background”
Speaker: Clarissa Dillon, Ph.D.
September 23, 2009 – Program Topic: “The War Man: The True Story of a Citizen-Soldier Who Fought from Quebec to Yorktown”
Speaker: Robert A. Mayers, Author
October 28, 2009 – Program Topic: “The Women of Valley Forge”
Speaker: Dr. Nancy Loane, Author
November 18, 2009 – Program Topic: “The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers”
Speaker: Thomas Fleming, Author (Flimed as an interview for C-SPAN for National TV Broadcast)
December 9, 2009 – Program Topic: “Invisible Ink Spycraft of the American Revolution”
Speaker: John A. Nagy, Author
2008
January 23, 2008 – Program Topic: “Samuel Supiton a New Jersey Slave” & “Rebellion in the Ranks Mutinies of the American Revolution”
Speaker 1: Fred Minus on Samuel Supiton who served as a substitute for his master in the army during the American Revolution.
Speaker 2: John A. Nagy, Author (due to bad weather in December 2007, a repeat of his presentation)
February 27, 2008 – Program Topic: “The Pleasure of Their Number: 1778 – Crisis, Conscription, and Revolutionary Soldiers’ Recollections”
Speaker: John U. Rees, Author
March 26, 2008 – Program Topic: “Golden Fleece Tavern”
Speakers: Jack and Nancy Gardner as the owners of the Golden Fleece tavern of Delaware.
April 23, 2008 – Program Topic: “Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters”
Speaker: Edward G. Lengel, Associate Professor, University of Virginia and Associate Editor at the Papers of George Washington, Author
May 24, 2008 – Program Topic: “North Carolina troops at Brandywine, Germantown, and Valley Forge”
Speaker: Patrick O’Kelley, Author (A combined meeting with the “Friends of Valley Forge”)
June 25, 2008 – Program Topic: “The Way of Improvement Leads Home” – – It traced the short but fascinating life of Phillip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America.
Speaker: John Fea, Associate Professor at Messiah College, Author
September 24, 2008 – Program Topic: “Spanish Participation in the American Revolution”
Speaker: Hector Diaz
October 22, 2008 – Program Topic: “Washington’s Lieutenants, His Indispensable, Yet Unknown Men”
Speaker: Bill Welsch, President of the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond, VA.
November 12, 2008 – Program Topic: “The Revolutionary War through the eyes of an Artist”
Speaker: Pamela Patrick White an American Revolutionary War Artist
December 3, 2008 – Program Topic: “Jews The Revolutionary War” & “Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782”
Speaker 1: Meryl T Kryza
Speaker 2: James Piecuch, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of History, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, Author
2007
January 24, 2007 – Program Topic: “Through Fields of Blood . . . until Tyranny is Trodden under Foot” (Joseph Warren’s Last Oration, March 6, 1775)
Speaker: Gregory Urwin, Ph.D., Professor of History, Temple University
February 28, 2007 – Program Topic: “Present But Not Accounted For – The Women of the Valley Forge Encampment”
Speaker: Dr. Nancy K. Loane, Author
March 28, 2007 – Program Topic: “Thomas Jefferson”
Speaker: Steve Edenbo, Living Historian
April 25, 2007 – Program Topic: “Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution”
Speaker: Charles Rappleye, Author
May 23, 2007 – Program Topic: “John Jay: Founding Father”
Speaker: Walter Stahr, Author
June 27, 2007 – Program Topic: “Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic”
Speaker: Dr. Stuart Leibiger of LaSalle University, Author
September 26, 2007 – Program Topic: “Tea in the 18th Century”
Speaker: Susan McLellan Plaisted
October 24, 2007 – Program Topic: “Gouverneur Morris: Author, Statesman, and Man of the World”
Speaker: James J. Kirschke, Author
November 19, 2007 – Program Topic: “The Perils of Peace, America’s Struggle to Survive After Yorktown”
Speaker: Thomas Fleming, Author
December 5, 2007 – Program Topic: “Rebellion in the Ranks Mutinies of the American Revolution”
Speaker: John A. Nagy, Author
2006
January 25, 2006 – Program Topic: “Quakers of Philadelphia”
Speaker: Nancy Wilson
February 22, 2006 – Program Topic: “A Walk Through George Washington’s Philadelphia White House”
Speaker: Ed Lawler
March 29, 2006 – Program Topic: “Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois”
Speaker: Glenn F. Williams, Author
April 26, 2006 – Program Topic: “The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians And Soldiers In War”
Speaker: Wayne K. Bodle, Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
May 24, 2006 – Program Topic: “America Lies Here: Philadelphia’s Colonial and Federal Cemeteries”
Speaker: Tom H. Keels, has a website called Phillygraves.com
June 21, 2006 – Program Topic: “Franklin, Penn and Other Things”
Speaker: George W. Boudreau, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of American Studies and History at Penn State Capital College, Middletown, PA.
September 27, 2006 – Program Topic: “The Chesapeake Bay in the American Revolution”
Speaker: Dr. Michael J. Crawford Heads the Naval Historical Center’s Early History Branch in Washington, DC .
October 25, 2006 – “Music in the Life of Benjamin Franklin: A 300th Birthday Concert of 18th Century Music”
Speaker: David K. Hildebrand, Ph.D. spoke and performed
November 15, 2006 – Program Topic: “Benjamin Franklin”
Speaker: Dean Bennett, Living Historian
December 6, 2006 – Program Topic: “A Vindication of My Conduct” & “Most Troublesome Situation” The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764”
Speaker: Dr. Todd E. Harburn, Author
2005
January 2005 – Program Topic: “George Washington”
Speaker: William Sommerfield, Living Historian
February 2005 – Program Topic: “Doan Outlaw Gang of 1770’s Bucks County”
Speaker: Terry McNeely
March 2005 – Program Topic: “Cornwallis and the Slaves”
Speaker: Gregory J. W. Urwin (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame), Professor of History at Temple University and member of Colonel A. C. Vivian’s Company, 23rd Regiment of Foot, Royal Welch Fusiliers in America.
April 2005 – Program Topic: “Washington’s General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution”
Speaker: Terry Golway, Editor of The New York Observer
May 2005 – Program Topic: “The French War Against America: How a Trusted Ally Betrayed Washington and the Founding Fathers”
Speaker: Harlow Giles Unger, Author
June 2005 – Program Topic: “People in Colonial Philadelphia”
Speaker: Frances Delmar, Partnership Activities Manager for the National Park Service at Independence Hall
September 2005 – Program Topic: “Partisan: The South Carolina Insurgency of 1780”
Speaker: John Buchanan, Author and winner of the 2004 ARRTOP book award.
October 26, 2005 – Program Topic: “General Howe’s Dog”
Speaker: Caroline Tiger, Author
November 2005 – Program Topic: “Ned Hector”
Speaker: Noah Lewis, Living Historian, appeared as Ned Hector who was a real life hero of the Battle of Brandywine.
December 7, 2005 – Program Topic: “Washington’s Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge”
Speaker: Tom Fleming, Author (Filmed by C-Span for National TV Broadcast)
2004
January 2004 – Program Topic: “The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees Philadelphia, 1774-1776”
Speaker: Richard A. Ryerson, Academic Director of The David Library of the American Revolution
February 2004 – Program Topic: “Archeological Excavation of Dorchester Heights”
Speaker: James W. Mueller, PhD, Chief Historian at Independence National Historical Park
March 2004 – Program Topic: “Continental Navy”
Speaker: George Matlack, National Park Service – Valley Forge
April 2004 – Program Topic: “How Unhappy is War to Domestic Happiness:? Generals Wives and the War”
Speaker: Carol Berkin
May 2004 – Program Topic: “Lafayette’s Virginia Campaign of 1781”
Speaker: Albert D. McJoynt, an expert on the French forces in the American Revolution.
September 22, 2004 – Program Topic: ?
Speaker: Willard Sterne Randall
October 2004 – Program Topic: “The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution”
Speaker: John Buchanan
November 2004 – Program Topic: “Spycraft: Codes and Ciphers of the American Revolution”
Speaker: John A. Nagy, Author
December 2004 – Program Topic: “General Wayne’s Attack on the Bull’s Ferry Block House”
Speaker: Todd Braistead, Author
2003
January 2003 – Program Topic: “Forgotten Patriot: The Life and Times of Major General Nathanael Greene”
Speaker: Lee Patrick Anderson
February 2003 – Program Topic: “Alexander Hamilton, A Life”
Speaker: Willard Sterne Randall, Author
March 2003 – Program Topic: “What’s for Dinner”
Speaker: Paulette Marks
April 2003 – Program Topic: “The Boston Campaign”
Speaker: Victor Brooks. Author, Historian and Professor at Villanova University
May 2003 – Program Topic: “Ben Franklin and Women”
By Dr. Larry Tise
June 2003 – Program Topic: “Loyalists: An overview of the Provincial Corps raised at Philadelphia”
Speaker: Todd Braisted, Author, Co-founder, The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalists Studies
September 2003 – Program Topic: “Hessians”
Speaker: Bruce E. Burgoyne, Author
October 2003 – Program Topic: “Sleepwalking in the American Revolution”
Speaker: Robert Cox – Manuscript Curator at the American Philosophical Society
November 2003 – Program Topic: “General Washington’s Christmas Farewell : A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783”
Speaker: Stanley Weintraub, Author
December 2003 – Program Topic: “Generous Enemies Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York”
Speaker: Judith L. Van Buskirk, Ph.D, Author.
2002
January 2002 – Program Topic: “Brandywine and Germantown: Two Battles Reconsidered”
Speaker: Marc Brier, Ranger/Historian, Valley Forge National Historical Park.
February 2002 – Program Topic: “Revolutionary War Uniforms”
Speaker: Tom Stolfi, Education Dept., Brandywine Battlefield Park
March 2002 – Program Topic: “Espionage in the American Revolution”
Speaker: Thomas Fleming, Author and Historian
April 2002 – Program Topic: “Battle of Paoli”
Speaker: Thomas J. McGuire, Author
May 2002 – Program Topic “First Rhode Island Regiment”
Speaker: Joseph Becton, Assistant District Ranger, Independence Hall Park
September 2002 – Program Topic “Lafayette”
Speaker: Harlow Giles Unger
October 2002 – Program Topic “Who Needs Another Book on the American Revolution?”
Speaker: John C. Dann, Director, William L. Clements Library University of Michigan
November 2002 – Program Topic “Revolutionary Medicine”
Speaker: Joseph Majdan, MD
December 2002 – Program Topic “The Battle for New York”
Speaker: Barnet Schecter (The Battle for New York web site with walking tour of New York)
2001
September 2001 – Program Topic: “The Many Civil Wars Within the Revolutionary War”
Speaker: Bill Troppman, Ranger/Historian,Valley Forge National Historical Park.
October 2001 – Program Topic: “A Tale of Two Forts or How Fort Mercer and Fort Mifflin Saved the American Revolution”
Speaker: Lee Partick Anderson,
Author, former Chief Historian, Fort Mifflin on the Delaware. Author, “Forty Minutes by the Delaware”
November 2001 – Program Topic: “What Really Went On When Martha Visited George at the Revolutionary War’s Winter Encampments?”
Speaker: Dr. Nancy Loane, Author, Professor/Educator.
