Past Speakers

 

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
by: 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
By 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

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

2016bunting

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

2015bunting

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

2014bunting

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

2013bunting

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

2012bunting

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

2011bunting

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

2010bunting

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

2009bunting

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

2008bunting

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

2007bunting

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

2006bunting

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

2005bunting

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)

2004bunting

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

2003bunting

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.

2002bunting

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)

2001bunting

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.

Past Speakers