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For this special lecture, Dennis Conrad, Ph.D., editor of The Nathanael Greene Papers, discusses the leadership of Gen. Nathanael Greene in the South during the American Revolution, along with events that led to the critical Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781. This lecture was part of our larger two-day battlefield tour program exploring the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on November 15-16, 2024.
About the Speaker
Dennis Conrad is a historian whose research focuses on various aspects of the American Revolution and United States naval history. Prior to his retirement, he served as a historian for Naval History and Heritage Command. Having received his Ph.D. from Duke University, he was the contributing editor of several publications on the American Revolution, including The Papers of Nathanael Greene, Naval Documents of the American Revolution Series, and Sea Raiders of the American Revolution: The Continental Navy in European Waters. Dr. Conrad also served as the lead historian for a documentary highlighting the U.S. Navy in the Spanish American War in 2014. In 2021, he was awarded a fellowship by the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati to conduct research in the American Revolution Institute’s library for an in-depth study of Gen. Nathanael Greene’s transition from quartermaster general to commander of the Continental forces in the South during the critical year 1780. His research in our library focused on Greene’s leadership of a large detachment of the Continental Army in the Northern Department, through when he became the commander of the Continental Army in the Southern Department to recapture the Deep South.
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For this special lecture, Dennis Conrad, Ph.D., editor of The Nathanael Greene Papers, discusses the leadership of Gen. Nathanael Greene in the South during the American Revolution, along with events that led to the critical Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781. This lecture was part of our larger two-day battlefield tour program exploring the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on November 15-16, 2024.
About the Speaker
Dennis Conrad is a historian whose research focuses on various aspects of the American Revolution and United States naval history. Prior to his retirement, he served as a historian for Naval History and Heritage Command. Having received his Ph.D. from Duke University, he was the contributing editor of several publications on the American Revolution, including The Papers of Nathanael Greene, Naval Documents of the American Revolution Series, and Sea Raiders of the American Revolution: The Continental Navy in European Waters. Dr. Conrad also served as the lead historian for a documentary highlighting the U.S. Navy in the Spanish American War in 2014. In 2021, he was awarded a fellowship by the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati to conduct research in the American Revolution Institute’s library for an in-depth study of Gen. Nathanael Greene’s transition from quartermaster general to commander of the Continental forces in the South during the critical year 1780. His research in our library focused on Greene’s leadership of a large detachment of the Continental Army in the Northern Department, through when he became the commander of the Continental Army in the Southern Department to recapture the Deep South.
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