Society of the Cincinnati Eagles of the Twentieth Century American Revolution Institute 2023-05-22 | The Institute’s deputy director and curator, Emily Parsons, discusses Society of the Cincinnati Eagles of the twentieth century. The Eagle insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati is one of the most historic American medals and has been worn by members at meetings, dinners, ceremonies, and other events for more than two hundred years. Designed in 1783 by Pierre-Charles L’Enfant—a French-born artist, Continental Army officer, and original member of the Society—the Society’s insignia, known as the Eagle, is a double-sided medal in the shape of an American bald eagle suspended from a light blue-and-white ribbon—the latter representing the alliance of France and the United States that helped to win American independence. With its downturned wings and olive branches in its talons, the Society Eagle emphasizes the founding of a peaceful American republic and the return of its soldiers to their civilian lives.Beginning in 1784 when the first Society Eagles were made, more than twenty different craftsmen and firms have produced variations of the iconic insignia. In the twentieth century, this proliferation continued, with new variations on L’Enfant’s design produced in the United States and France by makers such as Tiffany and Company, Bailey Banks & Biddle, and Arthus Bertrand. The twentieth century began with an effort by Society leaders to standardize the Eagle into a single, broadly accepted design, but the commissioning of other variations by individual state societies continued. While the Eagle is traditionally made of gold, several versions were produced in silver gilt in the mid-twentieth century—a short-lived innovation that, while less expensive, was not as popular as manufacturers expected. This Lunch Bite explores the various types of the Society insignia produced in the twentieth century and some of the famous men who have worn them, including Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan.This program accompanies our exhibition Affairs of State: 118 Years of Diplomacy and Entertaining at Anderson House, now on view through to December 31, 2023.Explore the exhibition: bit.ly/3J3e0W3SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of Americas National Capital Region | Elizabeth Reese American Revolution Institute 2024-10-10 | Against the backdrop of a tumultuous election, a beloved hero of the American Revolution returned to America for the first time in forty years. From August 1824 to September 1825, the marquis de Lafayette traveled through the United States, welcomed by thousands of admirers at each stop along the way. Although the tour brought him to each state in the Union, the majority of his time was spent in Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland. Public historian Elizabeth Reese traces Lafayette’s route throughout the National Capital Region, highlighting the locations and people the famous general held closest to his heart.This program accompanies our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, on view through December 31, 2024.About the SpeakerElizabeth Reese is a public historian whose work is focused on the American Revolution and early republic. In addition to receiving the 2015 Scott Hartwig Public History Fellowship at the Civil War Institute, she has spent over a decade as an interpreter at federal historic sites, including Hamilton Grange National Memorial and the United States Capitol. Throughout her career, she has developed programs on civil rights, women’s history, and America's Founding era. Currently, Elizabeth is the associate manager of marketing at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House. She is also the author of The Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America's Capital Region (The History Press, 2024) and the chair of The American Friends of Lafayette Bicentennial Committee for Washington, D.C. Learn more about our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: bit.ly/3R4GYt9SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A Portrait of Revolutionary War Veteran Andrew Wallace, the Rescuer of Lafayette at Brandywine American Revolution Institute 2024-09-18 | According to his 1833 pension letter and other contemporary accounts, Wallace had a seemingly fascinating career throughout the Revolution. Having allegedly served as a sergeant from 1776 through the end of the war, Wallace claimed to have participated in nearly every major battle and campaign, along with carrying out other heroic feats such as aiding the marquis de Lafayette on the battlefield after he was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. Historical Programs Manager Andrew Outten examines the validity of Wallace's claimed service during the American Revolution—including his claim to have aided Lafayette—along with the significance of his 1831 portrait in the context of memorializing the Revolution. The portrait, on loan from Mr. and Mrs. William Allen Marshall of the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina, is on display in our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic.Learn more about our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: bit.ly/3R4GYt9SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The 2024 Society of the Cincinnati Prize - Disunion Among Ourselves | Dr. Eli Merritt American Revolution Institute 2024-09-09 | The 2024 Society of the Cincinnati Prize honors Eli Merritt, M.D., M.A., for his book Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution (University of Missouri Press, 2023), which explores the politics of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.Far from a harmonious collaboration, the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War was so filled with political strife that the delegates feared the war would end in disunion or civil war. But instead of disbanding, these founders managed to unite for the sake of liberty and self-preservation, forging grueling compromises and holding the young nation together. In filling this critical gap in our historical understanding of the Revolution, Disunion Among Ourselves serves to remind readers that the founders overcame political challenges through a commitment to ethical constitutional democracy and compromise. Merritt’s study of the fear of disunion and civil war contributes to our knowledge of the influences on the political rhetoric of the American Revolution, while demonstrating that the founding fathers had good cause to fear internecine conflict.In this special event, Dr. Merritt, receives the 2024 Society of the Cincinnati Prize and draws from his book to discuss the deep political divisions that almost tore the Union apart during the Revolution. The Society of the Cincinnati Prize was established in 1989 to recognize authors of outstanding books that advance understanding of the American Revolution and its legacy.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Memory of 76: The Revolution in American History | Michael Hattem, Ph.D. American Revolution Institute 2024-09-04 | Americans agree that their nation’s origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly 250 years, politicians, political parties, social movements, and a diverse array of ordinary Americans have constantly reimagined the Revolution to fit the times and suit their own agendas.Drawing from his new book, historian Michael D. Hattem reveals how conflicts over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution—including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—have influenced the most important events and tumultuous periods in the nation’s history. He also explores how African Americans, women and other oppressed groups have shaped the popular memory of the Revolution and how much of our contemporary memory of the Revolution is a product of the Cold War. By exploring the Revolution’s unique role in American history, Dr. Hattem demonstrates how the meaning of the Revolution has never been fixed, and how remembering the nation’s founding has sometimes done more to divide Americans than to unite them.About the SpeakerMichael Hattem is a historian whose research focuses on early America, the American Revolution, and historical memory. He received his Ph.D. in history at Yale University and currently serves as the associate director of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. His academic career includes teaching courses at The New School, Knox College and Eastern Washington University, where he currently teaches online graduate courses. In addition to his most recent book, The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History (Yale University Press, 2024), he is the author of Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020). These works have been featured or mentioned in various well-known publications, including The New York Times, TIME magazine, The Smithsonian Magazine and the Washington Post. Dr. Hattem has also served as a historical consultant or contributor for several projects and organizations, curated historical exhibitions, appeared in television documentaries and authenticated and written catalogue essays for historical document auctions.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJ Follow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev... Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstitute Stay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdL Become an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3Bonuqp Visit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org Learn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events #amrevinstitute
The Marquis de Lafayette and the American Revolution | Iris de Rode, Ph.D. American Revolution Institute 2024-09-03 | Having learned of the American war in the summer of 1775, the marquis de Lafayette responded to the rebels’ calls for republican principles inspired by ancient Rome, the opportunity to avenge France’s defeat by the British in the Seven Years’ War and the chance to further his military career. In December 1776, the young marquis formally pledged to join the American cause. After landing in South Carolina in June 1777, he made his way to Philadelphia to present himself to Congress and became a member of George Washington’s military family. During the war, Lafayette was wounded the first time he saw action, at Brandywine, and went on to command American troops at Barren Hill, Monmouth, Newport and Yorktown. He also helped solidify French support for the revolution, returning home in 1779 to lobby King Louis XVI and his ministers to send an army to aid the Americans—a successful effort that resulted in a large expeditionary force setting sail for America the following year. For this lecture, historian Iris de Rode, Ph.D., highlights Lafayette’s monumental career during the American Revolution and discusses the impact of his service on the later years of his life. This program accompanies our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, on view through December 31, 2024.About the SpeakerHistorian Iris de Rode specializes in the French participation in the American Revolution. She was awarded the Society of the Cincinnati’s 2023 Ellen McCallister Clark Massachusetts Library Fellowship to conduct research for her book Military Enlightenment on the Ground, which examines the collaboration among French and American military leaders that secured American independence, focusing on the involvement and contributions of four French leaders in particular. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 for her dissertation, “François-Jean de Chastellux: un soldat-philosophe dans le monde atlantique à l’époque des Lumières” (a soldier-philosopher in the Atlantic world at the time of the Enlightenment), at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis. She earned fourteen fellowships while working on her dissertation, including grants from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, Mount Vernon, Monticello, the French embassy in the Netherlands and the French government. Dr. de Rode has presented her research at more than seventy-five international conferences and has been teaching American, transatlantic and international history at the French University Sciences Po in Paris, France, since 2013. Learn more about our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: bit.ly/3R4GYt9SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Waging War In America: Operational Challenges of Armies During the American Revolution American Revolution Institute 2024-08-08 | Historian Don Hagist moderates a panel of contributors to the recent anthology Waging War in America, 1775-1783: Operational Challenges of Five Armies exploring the significant operational challenges faced by American, Loyalist, French and German forces during the Revolution. From recruitment and training to tactics and logistics, the panelists also examine how the various armies adapted to the specific circumstances of this war. Panelists for this discussion include historians Todd Braisted, Alexander Burns, Ph.D., John Rees and Robert Selig, Ph.D.About the PanelistsModerator: Don Hagist is the managing editor of the Journal of the American Revolution (allthingsliberty.com). Mr. Hagist’s areas of interest include the demographics and material culture of the British army in the American Revolution, British operations in Rhode Island and wives of British soldiers. He has published numerous articles in academic journals, as well as books including Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution (Westholme, 2020).Todd Braisted is an author and independent researcher specializing in Loyalist studies during the American Revolution. He has published over forty books and journal articles on a variety of period subjects, including Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City (Westholme, 2016). Over the past four decades, he has served as president of the Bergen County Historical Society and the Brigade of the American Revolution, and as a Fellow in the Company of Military Historians. He likewise serves as a history advisor to Crossroads of the American Revolution, and on the Advisory Council of Revolution NJ.Alexander Burns, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of history at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Dr. Burns studies North America and military Europe in the eighteenth century. He completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Katherine B. Aaslestead at West Virginia University in 2021. His doctoral dissertation was entitled “The Entire Army Says Hello: Common Soldiers’ Experiences, Localism, and Army Reform in Britain and Prussia, 1739-1789.” Recently, he edited a volume in honor of the late Christopher Duffy, The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare: Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy (Helion Press, 2022). His next book, Infantry in Battle 1733-1783, will be published by Helion Press in 2024.John Rees is an author and independent historian who has been writing on the experiences and material culture of common soldiers and women in the armies of the American Revolution for over thirty years. His research has focused on military foods, soldiers’ belongings and burden, army wagons and watercraft, campaign shelters and battle and campaign studies—many of his works being available online. Mr. Rees’ first book was “They Were Good Soldiers”: African Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783 (Helion Press, 2019). He is currently working on his second book that will focus on the participation of Black soldiers in North America’s founding wars, 1754-1865, covering British, Spanish, French, German and American forces.Robert Selig, Ph.D., is a historian and specialist on the role of French forces under the comte de Rochambeau during the American Revolution and serves as project historian for the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail. His publications include Hussars in Lebanon! (2004) and nearly 150 articles in American, German and French scholarly and popular history magazines, as well as chapters in books and anthologies. His honors and awards include the French Ordre national du Mérite (2022), La Médaille d’Or des Valeurs Francophones of La Renaissance Française (2019), the Erick Kurz Memorial Award of the Steuben Society of America and the Distinguished Patriot Award, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (2012).Purchase Waging War in America, 1775-1783: The Operational Challenges of Five Armies and use the promo code "HAGIST" to receive a 25% discount: casematepublishers.com/9781804513460/waging-war-in-america-1775-1783SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Lord Dunmores War | Glenn F. Williams, Ph.D. American Revolution Institute 2024-07-25 | Known to history as Dunmore’s War, the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty’s service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan, Michael Cresap, Adam Stephen and Andrew Lewis successfully enforced the western border established by treaties in parts of present-day West Virginia and Kentucky. As an immediate result of Dunmore’s War, the frontier remained quiet for two years, which allowed colonies to debate and declare independence before Britain convinced its Native allies to resume attacks on American settlements. Although he was hailed as a hero at the end of the war, Lord Dunmore’s attempt to maintain royal authority put him in direct opposition to many of the subordinates who followed him on the frontier, and he was driven from Virginia and returned to England in 1776. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of this campaign, historian Glenn F. Williams describes the course and importance of Dunmore’s War by correcting the folklore concerning the war and frontier fighting in general.About the SpeakerGlenn F. Williams was the senior historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort McNair, D.C. Prior to that, his positions included historian of the National Museum of the U.S. Army Project, historian of the Army Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, historian of the American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service, curator and historian of the USS Constellation Museum and assistant curator of the Baltimore Civil War Museum – President Street Station. He is the author of several books, including Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against the Iroquois (Westholme Publishing, 2006) and Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era (Westholme Publishing, 2017). In 2018, he received the Shelby Cullom Davis Award from the Society of Colonial Wars and the Judge Robert K. Woltz Award from the French and Indian War Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, College Park.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The Misadventures of Sgt. James Selkirk on the Chesapeake Bay — Robb Haberman, Ph.D. American Revolution Institute 2024-07-12 | Historian and documentary editor Robb Haberman examines the perilous voyage of Sgt. James Selkirk and the Second New York Regiment on their way to Yorktown in September 1781, when their transport schooner was separated and ran aground while sailing from Baltimore to Williamsburg. Using Selkirk’s unpublished papers, this talk examines his harrowing experience and the endurance of the Continental forces during the Yorktown campaign.About the SpeakerRobb Haberman is a historian of early America. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Connecticut, and currently serves as an adjunct assistant professor of history at Fordham University. He has held visiting lectureships at Trinity College Colby College. His work on politics, media and memory in Revolutionary-era New York has appeared in several print and online publications, including the peer-reviewed journals New York History, Early American Studies and American Periodicals. Dr. Haberman also worked for seven years at Columbia University as an associate editor for the John Jay Papers. During that period, he helped produce volumes four through seven of The Selected Papers of John Jay, which were published by the University of Virginia Press and which also appear on Founders Online, a free and open-access database created by the National Archives. In 2023, Dr. Haberman was awarded the New York State Society of the Cincinnati Fellowship to study James Selkirk and his memoirs in our library.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Fete Lafayette: A French Heros Tour of the American Republic American Revolution Institute 2024-06-28 | On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, the marquis de Lafayette embarked on a tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped established and whose republican form of government he saw as a model for the rest of the world.In August 1824, Lafayette sailed into New York Harbor, beginning a thirteen-month tour of the United States that took the Frenchman to all twenty-four states of the union and the federal city of Washington. He was celebrated in each city and town, and the routes along the way, with processions, banquets and receptions, worship services, and visits to important sites—along with a flood of souvenirs that met the intense demand for a memento of the French hero. Through more than fifty objects drawn from our collections, along with the collections of several important lenders, our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, explores Lafayette’s farewell tour of the United States in 1824-1825, how it highlighted the Frenchman’s contributions to its creation and vision for its future, and the tour’s role in highlighting the country’s revolutionary ideals for a new era. In this short video, Deputy Director and Curator Emily Parsons highlights the themes and selected objects of Fete Lafayette. Fete Lafayette is currently on view through December 31, 2024. To learn more about the exhibition, visit: americanrevolutioninstitute.org/exhibition/fete-lafayette-a-french-heros-tour-of-the-american-republic SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJ Follow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev... Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstitute Stay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdL Become an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3Bonuqp Visit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org Learn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events #amrevinstitute
An 1830s Model of the Royal Navy Frigate HMS Roebuck American Revolution Institute 2024-06-24 | Museum Collections and Operations Manager Paul Newman discusses an 1830s model of HMS Roebuck, a forty-four-gun British frigate that saw extensive service during the American Revolutionary War. Launched in 1774, the Roebuck found itself performing blockade duty on the Delaware River as early as 1775. The Roebuck later patrolled off Long Island and took part in the attacks on Forts Mercer and Mifflin and the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, before it returned to Great Britain in 1781. This presentation highlights the Roebuck’s service during the Revolutionary War, its technical features, and what daily life was like for her crew—all illustrated by this early model of the ship.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution | Richard Brookhiser American Revolution Institute 2024-06-11 | John Trumbull experienced the American Revolution firsthand by serving as an aide to American generals George Washington and Horatio Gates and being jailed as a spy. Throughout his wartime experience, he made it his mission to record the conflict, giving visual form to the great and unprecedented political experiment for the citizens of the newly formed United States. Although Trumbull’s contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a historian. Drawing on his new book, historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser focuses our attention on the complicated life and legacy of Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and principles that distinguished America’s founding moment.About the SpeakerRichard Brookhiser is a historian, journalist, and biographer who has authored numerous books, including John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Basic Books, 2018), Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (Basic Books, 2014), James Madison (Basic Books, 2011), George Washington on Leadership (Basic Books, 2008), What Would the Founders Do? (Basic Books, 2006), Alexander Hamilton, American (Free Press, 1999), and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (Free Press, 1996). He is currently a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. His other writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, and Vanity Fair.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution | Mike Duncan American Revolution Institute 2024-05-19 | Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the marquis de Lafayette. For over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on both sides of the Atlantic as a soldier, statesman, idealist, philanthropist and abolitionist. As a teenager, Lafayette ran away from France to join the American Revolution. Returning home a national hero, he helped launch the French Revolution, eventually spending five years locked in an Austrian prison. After his release, Lafayette sparred with Napoleon, joined an underground conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, and became an international symbol of liberty. Historian and best-selling author Mike Duncan discusses the remarkable life of the marquis de Lafayette and the thrilling story of his lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality. This program accompanies our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, on view through December 31, 2024.About the SpeakerMike Duncan is a historian, author, and one of the foremost history podcasters in the world. His award-winning series The History of Rome chronologically narrated the history of the Roman Empire over 189 weekly episodes. Running from 2007-2012, The History of Rome podcast remains one of the most popular history podcasts online, earning it an iTunes Best of 2015 award. From this podcast, Duncan wrote the New York Times-bestselling book The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Public Affairs Press, 2017). Mr. Duncan continued his success with his ongoing series Revolutions, a podcast that has explored the English, American, French and Haitian revolutions. Owing to the worldwide popularity of his podcasts, Duncan has led listeners on popular guided tours of Italy, England and France to visit historic sites from ancient Rome to the French Revolution.Learn more about our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: bit.ly/3R4GYt9Listen to the Revolutions podcast: bit.ly/4bMyaiZSUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Admiral de Grasses Leadership: New Insights Into the American Revolution | Jean-Marie Kowalski American Revolution Institute 2024-05-19 | Drawing from his recent co-authored book, Admiral de Grasse and American Independence: Command and Operations, Jean-Marie Kowalski, Ph.D., associate professor of history and lecturer at the Université Paris-Sorbonne and the École Navale (French Naval Academy), discusses recent research and discoveries surrounding French admiral Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse and British and French naval operations. In this talk, Prof. Kowalski examines various primary source material and meteorological data that offers new insights into de Grasse’s leadership during the Battle of the Capes in 1781. About the SpeakerJean-Marie Kowalski, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history and lecturer at the Université Paris-Sorbonne. He is also in charge of the department of humanities at the École Navale (French Naval Academy) in Brest, France, where he teaches courses in maritime history and military ethics. Prof. Kowalski’s expertise lies in the intersection of history, philosophy, and naval affairs. He is the author of the book, Navigation and Geography in Greco-Roman Antiquity. More recently, Prof. Kowalski co-authored Admiral de Grasse and American Independence: Command and Operations with Olivier Chaline. This new authoritative study, published by the Sorbonne University Press, is devoted to the precise understanding of the command of Admiral de Grasse during the siege of Yorktown in 1781, and shows how naval and land operations contributed to American Independence.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A French Engineers Map Depicting the Early Military Operations of the American Revolution American Revolution Institute 2024-05-02 | In 1777, French army officer Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, with the marquis de Lafayette. During the American Revolution, Capitaine du Chesnoy served with Lafayette as both his aide-de-camp and mapmaker, producing several important plans of key engagements. In addition to his maps serving as vital tools for French officers who were strangers to the geography of the United States, Capitaine du Chesnoy’s maps also became an important propaganda tool. The Institute’s historical programs manager, Andrew Outten, discusses one of Capitaine du Chesnoy’s important maps, Carte du Théatre de la Guerre dans l’Amérique Septentrionale, pendant les Années 1775, 76, 77 et 78. Produced in 1779 for King Louis XVI, the map was used by Lafayette to bolster his petition for increased support and expansion of French military operations in America. This presentation will discuss the significance of the map, its features, and the overall role it played in the Franco-American alliance.This Lunch Bite accompanies our upcoming exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, on view through December 31, 2024.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Lord Fairfax and George Washington in Revolutionary Virginia | Nicholas Fairfax American Revolution Institute 2024-04-26 | Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, played an influential role in the life of George Washington. Having been introduced to Washington shortly after settling in Virginia, in 1747, Fairfax became Washington’s first employer when he hired the sixteen-year-old Virginian to survey his lands west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Although a professed Loyalist throughout the American Revolution, Fairfax was quiet about his sentiments and remained a close friend of Washington until Fairfax’s death in 1781. In this lecture, Nicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and descendant of Thomas Fairfax, discusses the early history of the Fairfax family in America and the relationship between the Fairfax and Washington families before and after the Revolution.About the SpeakerNicholas Fairfax, 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, is a Scottish nobleman, peer, and politician. He first served as a member of the House of Lords from 1977 to 1995, before he was elected to return to that body as one of the forty-eight elected Hereditary Conservative Peers in November 2015. SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The First French Map of the United States American Revolution Institute 2024-04-25 | In this segment of Collections Corner, the Institute's research services librarian, Rachel Nellis, highlights a rare map from our Robert Charles Lawrence Fergusson Collection, Carte des Etats-Unis de l’Amerique suivant le Traité de Paix de 1783, engraved by Jean Lattré, an official engraver to Louis XVI. This map is an exceedingly rare copy of the first state of the first issue engraved by Lattré in 1784 and holds special significance to the Institute. Not only did Lattré include a fine rendering of the Eagle insignia of the Society of the Cincinnati among the symbols in its cartouche, but it is one of only four copies known to include side panels of text, printed from separate plates and pasted to the left and right edges of the central sheet, that give a full chronology of the war. Learn more about this rare map and its significance:americanrevolutioninstitute.org/masterpieces-in-detail/first-french-map-of-the-united-statesSUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers | Shirley Green American Revolution Institute 2024-04-19 | William and Benjamin Frank, brothers and freeborn men of color, joined the Second Rhode Island Regiment in the spring of 1777, joining a cohort of free Black soldiers serving in an integrated Continental Army. Following the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, they were transferred to the newly segregated First Rhode Island Regiment, a unit composed of Black and Native American Soldiers, including enslaved men who were promised their freedom in exchange for their service. The Frank brothers continued to serve together in the “Black Regiment” until Benjamin Frank deserted and enlisted with the British in 1780, eventually relocating to Nova Scotia. William Frank remained with his unit and served at Yorktown, where the men of the First Rhode Island also demonstrated their combat effectiveness. Drawing from her recent book, Dr. Shirley Green, adjunct professor of history at the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University, and a descendant of the Frank brothers, focuses our attention on the Black experience during the American Revolution by highlighting the experiences of the Frank brothers to present a complex account of Black life during the revolutionary era and demonstrate how free men of color desired to improve their condition of life in post-colonial North America.About the Speaker:Shirley L. Green earned her Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University after a twenty-six-year career in law enforcement. She is an adjunct professor of history at the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University. She is currently the director of the Toledo Police Museum in Toledo, Ohio.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The Marquis de Lafayette and His Farewell Tour | Alan Hoffman & Chuck Schwam American Revolution Institute 2024-03-29 | In 1824-1825, the marquis de Lafayette embarked on a tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped establish and whose democratic experiment he saw as a model for the rest of the world. Throughout his thirteen-month tour, he visited all twenty-four states of the union, where he was celebrated in each city and town with processions, banquets and receptions, worship services, and visits to important sites. Join historian Alan Hoffman, president of the American Friends of Lafayette and the translator of Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, a first-hand account of Lafayette’s tour, and Chuck Schwam, the executive director of the American Friends of Lafayette, for a discussion of Lafayette’s farewell tour, its significance, and an overview of planned commemorative events celebrating its bicentennial.This lecture accompanies our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero’s Tour of the American Republic, on view until December 31, 2024.About the SpeakersAlan Hoffman is an independent historian and the current president of the American Friends of Lafayette, and was a lawyer in Boston for fifty years. From 2003 to 2005, he translated Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, a first-hand account of Lafayette’s farewell tour of America, written by Auguste Levasseur, Lafayette’s private secretary throughout the tour. Now in its third printing, this translation was published by Peter E. Randall Publisher in 2006. Mr. Hoffman has delivered over two hundred lectures on Lafayette, and has spoken in each of the twenty-four states and Washington, D.C., that Lafayette visited during his tour, as well as in La Grange, Texas, and Lafayette and Denver, Colorado. In addition to his translation of Levasseur’s journal, Mr. Hoffman has published various articles on Lafayette, including “Lafayette: Symbol of Franco-American Friendship” in Symbol of Two Worlds edited by Diane Winham Shaw (American Friends of Lafayette, 2013), and “The Marquis de Lafayette in Savannah” in Slavery and Freedom in Savannah edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry (University of George Press, 2004). In addition to serving as the current president of the American Friends of Lafayette, Mr. Hoffman serves as the president of the Massachusetts Lafayette Society and is also the editor of The Gazette, a twice yearly historically rich publication of the American Friends of Lafayette.Chuck Schwam is the executive director of the American Friends of Lafayette and committee chair of the Lafayette Farewell Tour Bicentennial effort that oversees fifty nation-wide committees dedicated to commemorating the tour. Additionally, he is the publisher of The Gazette of the American Friends of Lafayette.Learn more about and explore future programs related to our current exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero's Tour of the American Republic: bit.ly/3R4GYt9SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The Shot Heard Round the World: The Coming of the American Revolution American Revolution Institute 2024-03-26 | By chronicling the settlement of the American Colonies, the formation of colonial governments, and the tension that resulted from the economic strain on Great Britain for its prosecution of the Seven Years War with France, this film illustrates how Great Britain’s attempt to make the American colonies pay for its debts, among other issues, brought about a revolution. The British parliament's passage of the Stamp, Sugar, Tea, and Intolerable Acts, and the effects of those on the colonies, are all thoroughly explained, along with the subsequent reaction of American settlers on the frontier, settling lands beyond the Proclamation Line of 1763, to the events in Boston. This production includes a dramatic portrayal of the opening battles at Lexington and Concord and follows the disorganized militias to Boston, where they laid siege to the occupied city.Permission to utilize this film has been given to the Society of the Cincinnati, Inc. and its American Revolution Institute by the Witnessing History Education Foundation, Inc., PO Box 1208, Lexington, Kentucky, 40588-1208, the producer of the film and the holder of the copyright thereof, and by the president of that Foundation, Kent Masterson Brown, a member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJExplore more content from Witnessing History Education Foundation, Inc:bit.ly/3xbKVVkFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
At War, At Sea: The Legacy of James Forten as a Revolutionary War Veteran | Matthew Skic American Revolution Institute 2024-03-06 | In February 2023, the Museum of the American Revolution opened the acclaimed special exhibition Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia. The exhibition introduced visitors to three generations of the family of James Forten (1766-1842), a free Black Revolutionary War veteran and sailmaker, as they battled slavery and defended freedom in the early United States. Matthew Skic, curator of exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution, will tell the story of the research behind Black Founders by highlighting the effort to bring together objects and documents relating to James Forten’s wartime experience as a teenaged sailor aboard the American privateer vessel Royal Louis and a prisoner of war held by the British, as well as the relationships he built with living descendants of James Forten around the United States in preparation for the exhibition. Image Credit: Collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.About the SpeakerMatthew Skic is curator of exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution, having joined the curatorial staff in June 2016 after graduating from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Since the Museum of the American Revolution’s opening in 2017, he has curated multiple award-winning exhibitions, including Hamilton Was Here: Rising Up in Revolutionary Philadelphia and Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier. Most recently, Matthew led the research and development team for the 2023 special exhibition, Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Three George Washington Manuscripts from the American Revolution American Revolution Institute 2024-03-04 | The Institute's research services librarian, Rachel Nellis, discusses three manuscripts signed by Gen. George Washington during the American Revolution. The manuscripts, recently donated to the Institute as part of the George Miller Chester Jr. (Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut) Collection of Historic General Washington Documents, include two wartime letters written by Washington from Harlem Heights in 1776 and Morristown in 1777. The third manuscript, issued to a French officer in 1783, is one of the earliest examples of a Society of the Cincinnati membership certificate (commonly called the diploma), distributed before Pierre L’Enfant’s design for the printed diploma was executed. The Lunch Bite examines each manuscript and discusses their individual significance and context within the narrative of the American Revolution.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Mental Maps of the Founders | Michael Barone American Revolution Institute 2024-03-04 | The American founders were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition—but they were not all of one mind. They came from diverse colonies, and they all sought their futures on different horizons. Without reliable maps of even nearby terrain, they contributed in different, and sometimes conflicting, ways to the expansion of a young republic on the seaboard edge of a continent of whose vast expanses they were largely ignorant. Through an examination of six founders, historian Michael Barone shows how their geographic orientation—their mental maps—informed their foundation and management of a financial and taxation system that enabled the new American republic’s commerce to thrive.About the SpeakerMichael Barone is senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and resident fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. He was the founding co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, the first edition of which edition appeared in 1971. Additionally, he is the author of several publications, including Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (Free Press, 1990), Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers (Crown Forum, 2007), and, most recently, Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders (Encounter Books, 2023). He has also written for many other publications in the United States and several other countries, including the Economist, the Times Literary Supplement, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times of London. Furthermore, he has received several awards throughout his career, which include the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2010, the Barbara Olsen Award from The American Spectator in 2006, and the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association in 1992.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The American Revolution in the Old Northwest | Larry Nelson American Revolution Institute 2024-02-29 | The American Revolution in the West is often neglected from the overall history of the conflict, though it had a significant impact on how it was conducted. Larry Nelson, assistant professor of history at Bowling Green State University, discusses this important component of the war by examining American ambitions in the Old Northwest, the vast uncharted region north and west of the Ohio River; the political goals of the Continental Congress within that region; and the role of Virginia militia leader George Rogers Clark in bringing those aims to fruition.About the SpeakerLarry Nelson holds a Ph.D. in American history from Bowling Green State University. He worked for the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) for nearly twenty-five years as the site director at Fort Meigs State Memorial. Following his retirement, he joined the history faculty at Bowling Green State University as an assistant professor. Throughout his career with the Ohio Historical Society, he participated in numerous archaeological investigations of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century military sites, including Fort Laurens and Crawford’s Defeat. He has also contributed to or appeared on many PBS and History Channel productions, including the Emmy-nominated History Channel presentation First Invasion – The War of 1812. An authority on the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley frontiers, his books include A Man of Distinction among Them: Alexander McKee and the Ohio Frontier (Kent State University Press, 1999); A History of Jonathan Alder: His Captivity and Life with the Indians (University of Akron Press, 2002); and The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (Michigan State University Press, 2010) with fellow historian David C. Skaggs. His most recent book, published by the Michigan State University Press, is entitled, To Your Posts!: A Documentary History of Fort Meigs.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Fete Lafayette: A French Heros Tour of the American Republic Promotional Video American Revolution Institute 2024-02-17 | Lafayette is back! Two hundred years ago, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, the marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant tour of the United States, returning for a final time to the country he helped establish and whose democratic experiment he saw as a model for the rest of the world. In August 1824, Lafayette sailed into New York Harbor, beginning a thirteen-month tour of the United States that took the Frenchman to all twenty-four states of the union and the federal city of Washington, where he spent much of the winter of 1824-1825. He was celebrated in each city and town, and the routes along the way, with processions, banquets and receptions, worship services, and visits to important sites—along with a flood of souvenirs that met the intense demand for a memento of the French hero.Marking the bicentennial of Lafayette’s farewell tour, the American Revolution Institute’s new exhibition, Fete Lafayette: A French Hero's Tour of the American Republic (March 2-December 31, 2024), will explore how Lafayette was celebrated during the tour and how the tour highlighted the country’s revolutionary ideals and origins for a new generation. Visit the exhibition—a rich display of more than forty artifacts, documents, and artworks—to learn more about Lafayette’s involvement in the American Revolution, relationships with American founders, membership in the Society of the Cincinnati, fight for universal liberty, and legacy.Learn more about Fete Lafayette: bit.ly/3R4GYt9
Dishonored Americans: The Political Death of Loyalists in Revolutionary America | Timothy Compeau American Revolution Institute 2024-02-08 | In the final words of the Declaration of Independence, the signatories famously pledged their lives, their fortunes and their “sacred Honor” to one another, but what about those who made the opposite choice? By looking through the lens of honor culture of the period, Timothy Compeau, assistant professor of history at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario, offers an innovative assessment of the experience of Americans who made the fateful decision to remain loyal to the British Crown during and after the Revolution. Loyalists, as Dr. Compeau explains, suffered a “political death” at the hands of American Patriots. A term drawn from eighteenth-century sources, “political death” encompassed the legal punishments and ritualized dishonors Patriots used to defeat Loyalist public figures and discredit their counter-revolutionary vision for America. By highlighting this dynamic, Dr. Compeau makes a significant intervention in the long-standing debate over the social and cultural factors that motivated colonial Americans to choose sides in the conflict, narrating in compelling detail the severe consequences for once-respected gentlemen who were stripped of their rights, privileges and power in Revolutionary America.About the Speaker: Timothy Compeau is an assistant professor of history at Huron University College in London, Ontario, Canada, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. His research focuses on the British Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, with a specific focus on honor culture and loyalism in the Age of Revolutions. He is the project director of “Loyalist Migrations,” a partnership with the United Empire Loyalists Associations of Canada (UELAC), which allows researchers access to genealogical records of the UELAC, as well as other archival sources, to reconstruct the migrations of thousands of exiles, refugees, economic migrants, settlers and soldiers from all walks of life who fled the American Revolution. He was also the co-editor of Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History (University of Michigan Press, 2019).SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America | Abby Chandler American Revolution Institute 2024-01-18 | The Stamp Act riots in Rhode Island and the Regulator Rebellion in North Carolina, although movements in smaller colonies, tell a broader story about the evolution of American political thought in the decades surrounding the American Revolution. Without pre-existing local tensions, the fury of the Stamp Act crisis might not have spilled over during the summer of 1765, and, without the added strains of the imperial crisis, the Regulator Rebellion might not have lasted for five years. Drawing from her recent book, Abby Chandler, associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, explores the local and transatlantic tensions that infused the Stamp Act riots and Regulator Rebellion and how the identities of both colonies evolved in the coming decades.About the SpeakerAbby Chandler is an associate professor of American history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Having earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maine at Orono in 2008, her research focuses on political movements in eighteenth-century British North America and protest in the long eighteenth century. She is the author of Law and Sexual Misconduct in New England, 1650-1750: Steering Towards England (Routledge, 2015) and has written several articles for publications such as Maine History, the North Carolina Historical Review and Early Modern Women, as well as the North Carolina Historical Review. She also currently serves on the 250th American Revolution Anniversary Commission in Massachusetts.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A Collection of Letters Written from Captivity by American Soldier and Privateer William Russell American Revolution Institute 2024-01-03 | The Institute's historical programs manager, Andrew Outten, discusses a collection of letters written from captivity by William Russell, an American soldier and privateer who was imprisoned twice during the Revolution. Following his initial capture at sea, Russell was first held prisoner at Mill Prison in England before being released. Shortly after, he was recaptured and incarcerated on the infamous prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor. After his final release in March 1783, and desperate to repay debts and provide for his family, Russell joined the crew of a merchant vessel before returning home. Succumbing to subsequent trauma and illness, Russell died within a year of his homecoming. Drawing from Russell’s letters, this Lunch Bite will focus on his experiences during his two periods of captivity by examining his attitudes, hopes, and horrors.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of Americas Most Hated Man | Jack Kelly American Revolution Institute 2024-01-03 | For more than two centuries, all most Americans have ever known about Benedict Arnold is that he committed treason—yet he was more than a turncoat. He was a superb leader, a brilliant tactician, a supremely courageous soldier and one of the most successful military officers of the early years of the Revolutionary War. His capture of Fort Ticonderoga, his Maine mountain expedition to attack Quebec, the famous artillery duel at Valcour Island and the turning point at the Battle of Saratoga all laid the groundwork for our independence. Although his new book doesn’t exonerate Arnold for his treason, historian Jack Kelly forces us to reexamine our understanding of Arnold by offering a fresh new perspective on the events and decisions that led to his momentous change of heart and the permanent stain on his character.About the SpeakerJack Kelly is a public scholar and historian. He is the author of several books on the American Revolution, including Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty (St. Martin’s Press, 2021); Band of Giants: The American Soldiers Who Won American Independence (Palgrave MacMillan Trade, 2016); and Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics (Basic Books, 2009). A New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, Jack has appeared on NPR, PBS and The History Channel, and has written for national publications including the Wall Street Journal and American Heritage.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America | Benjamin Carp American Revolution Institute 2023-12-15 | On the night of December 16, 1773, a party of Bostonians boarded three British vessels and dumped over three hundred chests of tea into Boston Harbor. In addition to objecting to taxation without representation, the participants were also protesting the Tea Act of 1773, which forced them to pay a tax on top of the monopoly prices set by the East India Company and benefitted the family of the royal governor of Massachusetts. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of this harbinger of the Revolution, Benjamin Carp, professor of history at Brooklyn College, discusses the event by examining the actions of those who carried out the raid in the context of the global story of British interests in India, North America and the Caribbean.About the SpeakerBenjamin L. Carp is the Daniel M. Lyons Chair in American History at Brooklyn College and an affiliate for the history program of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia and specializes in the history of the American Revolution and the eighteenth century, particularly in the seaport cities of eastern North America. He is the author of several books and scholarly articles, including Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America (Yale University Press, 2013) and The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2023). Additionally, Dr. Carp contributed to the anthology Women Waging War in the American Revolution, edited by historian Holly Mayer, and has also written for wider audiences in BBC History, Colonial Williamsburg, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He has also appeared on podcasts such as The Alarmist, History Extra and Revolution 250, and on various radio and television outlets. For his book Defiance of the Patriots. Dr. Carp was awarded the 2013 Society of the Cincinnati Prize.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A Handkerchief Commemorating the Reign of King George III American Revolution Institute 2023-11-29 | Museum Collections and Operations Manager Paul Newman discusses a handkerchief commemorating the reign of British monarch King George III, made ca. 1812. The large printed handkerchief chronicles contemporary events in a lavishly decorated manner and includes several portraits of notable British figures from the period. This Lunch Bite will focus on the various depictions on the printed textile, with a particular focus on how the American Revolution is referred to within the artifact and contextualized in the broader scope of British history.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Moderates vs. Radicals in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution | Robert W. Smith American Revolution Institute 2023-11-17 | During the Revolution, American policymakers were divided into two factions—radicals and moderates. Radicals saw the United States as a great power, equal to France and worthy of alliances with as many foreign powers as possible. Moderates, however, doubted American military power and were content to rely on military assistance from France alone. In each case, battlefield results determined who held the upper hand when it came to diplomacy. Radicals prevailed when the war went well, but power quickly shifted in favor of the moderates when it went poorly. In this lecture, Robert W. Smith, professor of history at Worcester State University, discusses the turbulence surrounding American diplomacy during the Revolution and how the Treaty of Paris was the final diplomatic triumph for the radicals.About the Speaker:Robert W. Smith is a professor and graduate coordinator at Worcester State University in Worcester, Mass., where he teaches history and political science. He received his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary, and his research focuses on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations, American constitutional history, English constitutional history, the early American republic and the age of Jackson. Throughout his academic career, he has authored several books and articles, including Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy (Northern Illinois University Press, 2004) and Amid a Warring World: Diplomacy and Foreign Policy in the Early Years of the American Republic (The University of Nebraska Press, 2012). He is currently working on a study of Virginia’s foreign policy in the 1780s and the ratification of the Constitution.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father | Brooke Barbier American Revolution Institute 2023-11-07 | John Hancock is often associated with the radical commencement of the Revolution and his audacious signature at the bottom of the Declaration of Independence, but his politics were not nearly as bold as they may have seemed. Throughout the Revolution, he frustrated both patriots and loyalists alike but remained the most popular and powerful man in Massachusetts through his ability to find middle ground amidst political turmoil. In her new book, historian Brooke Barbier, Ph.D., examines the life and leadership of Hancock, whose steadying force and compromise proved the basis of profound social and political change.About the Speaker: Brooke Barbier is a public historian, who holds a Ph.D. in American history from Boston College. In addition to King Hancock, she is the author of Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire (The History Press, 2017), which focuses on pre-revolutionary Boston and its significance during the American Revolution. She is also the founder of Ye Olde Tavern Tours, a popular guided outing along Boston’s renowned Freedom Trail, founded in 2013.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
How King George III Could Have Won the American Revolution | Andrew Roberts & Gen. David Petraeus American Revolution Institute 2023-10-31 | Historian Andrew Roberts and Gen. David Petraeus (U.S. Army, Ret.) deliver the 2023 George Rogers Clark Lecture through a conversation surrounding how King George III could have won the American Revolution. Together, they have recently published a new book, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. Presented annually since 1975, the Society of the Cincinnati's George Rogers Clark Lecture recognizes the scholarship of leading historians of the American Revolution. Recent Clark Lecturers include Nick Bunker, Rick Atkinson, Kathleen DuVal, and Andrew O’Shaughnessy. About the Speakers:Lord Andrew Roberts is an honorary senior scholar and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge), the current Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a visiting professor at the War Studies Department at King’s College, London, and the Lehrman Institute Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society. . In November 2022, he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Roberts of Belgravia. Lord Roberts has written or edited twenty books including George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch, which won the General Society of Colonial Wars Distinguished Book Award; The Holy Fox; Eminent Churchillians; Salisbury: Victorian Titan; Napoleon and Wellington, Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership; Waterloo: The Battle for Modern Europe; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900; Masters and Commanders; The Storm of War; Churchill: Walking With Destiny; and The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe. David Petraeus is a retired U.S. Army general and public official. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from September of 2011 until November of 2012. Prior to his assuming the directorship of the CIA, Petraeus served thirty-seven years in the U.S. Army culminating with a four-star general rank at the time of his retirement in 2011. Major posts of service included Commander of the U.S. Central Command, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, and Commander of all coalition forces in Iraq. General Petraeus graduated from West Point in 1974 and later graduated from the U.S. Army Command & General Staff College, where he earned the George C. Marshall Award. He also holds a M.P.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from Princeton University. Petraeus is a Partner at KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in 2013. He is also an academic, personal venture investor, serves as a member of the boards of directors of Optiv and OneStream, and is a strategic advisor for Sempra and Advanced Navigation. SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
An Allegorical Portrait of a French Naval Officer American Revolution Institute 2023-10-31 | Deputy Director and Curator Emily Parsons discusses an allegorical portrait from our museum collections. Completed in 1783 by Parisian artist Nicolas René Jollain, the painting depicts Thomas François Lenormand de Victot, a fallen French naval officer from the Revolutionary War. Lenormand de Victot had been serving in the French navy for twenty years by 1778, when he departed for the American war. Four years later, he succumbed to disease on April 10, 1782, a day before French admiral de Grasse's fleet set sail from Martinique and were subsequently defeated at the Battle of the Saintes. The painting memorializes one of the thousands of French soldiers and sailors who sacrificed their lives in the fight for American independence.View other segments of our Collections Corner videos: americanrevolutioninstitute.org/collections-corner-videosSUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Visit of the King and Queen of Siam to Anderson House American Revolution Institute 2023-10-23 | Director of Marketing and Communications Glenn Hennessey for a discussion of the 1931 visit to Anderson House by the king and queen of Siam (now Thailand) and the ephemera that documents it. From April 29 to May 1, the royal couple occupied the house—on loan from Larz and Isabel Anderson, who were out of town—for the Washington, D.C., portion of their trip to the United States. The royals used the mansion as their residence in the nation’s capital, entertaining President and Mrs. Hoover before their own invitation to a state dinner at the White House. This Lunch Bite will highlight items documenting the visit, including an elegant tasseled program printed for their visit; handwritten menus for the meals they had prepared by a French chef during their stay; telegrams and radiograms sent between the Siamese couple and the Andersons both before and after their visit; and an official letter of thanks from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson acknowledging the great favor the Andersons performed for the State Department.This program accompanies our current exhibition, Affairs of State: 118 Years of Diplomacy and Entertaining at Anderson House, on view through December 31.Explore the exhibition: bit.ly/3J3e0W3SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The Torys Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America | Cynthia Kierner American Revolution Institute 2023-10-23 | The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. Jane Welborn Spurgin was a patriot who welcomed Gen. Nathanael Greene to her home and aided the Continental forces. Her husband was a loyalist and an officer fighting for King George III in the local Tory militia. Cynthia Kierner, professor of history at George Mason University, discusses her new book that focuses on the wife of a middling backcountry farmer to show how the Revolution not only toppled long-established political hierarchies, but also strained family ties and drew women into the public sphere to claim both citizenship and rights.About the SpeakerCynthia Kierner is professor of history at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1986 and specializes in the fields of early America, women and gender, and early southern history. She is the author or editor of eight books and numerous articles, in addition to being an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH). Throughout her distinguished career, her research has received support from the American Historical Association, the Virginia Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World | Ashli White American Revolution Institute 2023-10-18 | Ashli White, professor of history at the University of Miami, explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions and argues that radical ideals in the eighteenth century were contested through objects as well as in texts. In this lecture on her new book, Dr. White considers how revolutionary things brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a range of objects—ceramics and furniture, garments and accessories, prints, maps and public amusements—Dr. White shows how material culture held political meaning for diverse populations. Enslaved and free, women and men, poor and elite—all turned to things to realize their varied and sometimes competing visions of revolutionary change.About the SpeakerAshli White is a professor of history at the University of Miami (FL). She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and specializes on early American history, with particular attention to the connections between North America and the Atlantic world. To date, most of her research has concentrated on the political, social and cultural history of the age of revolutions. She is the author of several books including Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), that explores the far-reaching impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. It won the 2011 Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français d’Amérique. She is the recipient of fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others, and was associate curator of Antillean Visions: Maps and the Making of the Caribbean (Lowe Art Museum, February-May 2018), an exhibition that charted over five hundred years of mapping the region. The exhibition’s multilingual catalog received the 2019 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab Award from the American Library Association.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Lt. Col. Anthony Walton Whites Silver Camp Cups American Revolution Institute 2023-10-18 | This pair of silver camp cups was owned by Anthony Walton White, an officer in the New Jersey Line and the Continental Light Dragoons during the Revolutionary War. The cups were made in Philadelphia about 1776 by silversmith Richard Humphreys, who made a similar set for George Washington during the war. Small and simple yet elegant, camp cups like these were commonly part of an officer’s equipment in the field, and were designed for serving strong spirits or wine and to be replenished often in social settings. Deputy Director and Curator Emily Parsons discusses the history and use of these cups, which were acquired for the Institute’s museum collections in December 2022.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgView other segments of our Collections Corner videos: americanrevolutioninstitute.org/collections-corner-videosLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Statues of Nathan Hale American Revolution Institute 2023-09-26 | “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” The words Nathan Hale is said to have uttered just before being hanged as a spy by the British are among the best remembered of the Revolution. The young schoolteacher-turned-officer-turned-spy was a hero to nineteenth-century Americans, but they didn’t know what he looked like, as no contemporary likeness survived. Then two American sculptors working at the turn of the twentieth century imagined Nathan Hale in bronze statues. The vision of the young hero expressed by Frederick MacMonnies and Bela Lyon Pratt has shaped the way Americans have imagined Hale for more than a century. Deputy Director and Curator Emily Parsons examines three important sculptures of Hale in the Institute’s collections in a presentation given on the 247th anniversary of his death.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Valley Forge to the Battle of Monmouth: From Colonial Rebellion to European War | Ricardo Herrera American Revolution Institute 2023-09-22 | For this special lecture, Dr. Ricardo Herrera of the U.S. Army War College explores the events that led to the Battle of Monmouth, along with the subsequent global nature of the American Revolution and its impact on British strategy for the remainder of the conflict. This lecture was part of our larger two-day battlefield tour program exploring the Battle of Monmouth, on September 15-16, 2023.About the SpeakerAn award-winning historian, Dr. Ricardo A. Herrera is a visiting professor for the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. Before joining the U.S. Army War College, he was a professor of military history at the School of Advanced Military Studies, US Army Command and General Staff College, and spent six years teaching, leading, and designing staff rides at the Combat Studies Institute at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth. From 2002 through 2006, he was an assistant professor of history at Mount Union College, while serving as director of honors from 2005 through 2006. He has been awarded several research fellowships, including a visiting fellowship at Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth; a residential research fellowship at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon; a residential research fellowship at the David Library of the American Revolution; a research fellowship at the Society for the History of the Early American Republic; and a Society of the Cincinnati scholars’ grant. He is the author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861 (New York University Press, 2015), and several articles and chapters on U.S. military history.Explore and learn more about our battlefield tour series: americanrevolutioninstitute.org/battlefield-tour-seriesSUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
2023 SOC Prize—Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolution | Friederike Baer American Revolution Institute 2023-09-22 | The 2023 Society of the Cincinnati Prize honors Friederike Baer, Ph.D., professor of history at Penn State Abington and her book Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War (Oxford University Press, 2022). In this special event, Dr. Baer receives Cincinnati Prize and discusses her deeply researched examination of the German auxiliaries.Between 1776 and 1783, Great Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the American rebels. Collectively known as Hessians, the soldiers and accompanying civilians, including hundreds of women and children, spent extended periods of time in locations as dispersed and varied as Canada, West Florida, and Cuba. They penned a large body of private and official records that provide detailed accounts of the American war as well as descriptions of the built and natural environment, local customs and manners, the prevalence of slavery, and encounters with Native Americans. Based chiefly on these writings, Dr. Baer’s book offers a ground-breaking reimagining of Britain’s war against American independence from the perspective of the German soldiers, a people uniquely positioned both in the midst of the war and at its margins.The Society of the Cincinnati Prize recognizes the author of an outstanding book that advances understanding of the American Revolution and its legacy. Established in 1989 as a triennial award, the prize is now presented annually. Honorees have included leading historians as well as rising scholars in the field. The prize was created with a generous endowment gift from the family of Dr. H. Bartholomew Cox.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City | Christopher Minty American Revolution Institute 2023-09-22 | Drawing from his recent book, Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City, historian Christopher Minty, Ph.D., explores the origins of loyalism in New York City between 1766 and 1776, and adds to our understanding of the coming of the American Revolution. Focusing on political culture, organization, and patterns of allegiance, Dr. Minty demonstrates how the contending allegiances of loyalists and patriots were all but locked in place by the outset of war in 1775, and that the political alignments formed during the imperial crisis of the 1760s and 1770s provided a critical platform that made New York City a center of loyalism throughout the American Revolution.About the SpeakerChristopher F. Minty is an editor at the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia, where he contributes to the Papers of George Washington and the Naval documents of the American Revolution, among other projects. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Stirling, and his research has been supported by Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the New-York Historical Society and the New York State Archives.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A View from Abroad: The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe | Jeanne Abrams American Revolution Institute 2023-09-22 | From 1778 to 1788, future president John Adams lived in Europe as an American diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784, the two shared rich encounters with famous heads of the European royal courts. Jeanne E. Abrams, professor of history at the University of Denver, shows that the Adams’ journey not only changed the course of their intellectual, political and cultural development, but served to strengthen their loyalty to America, and highlights how the Adamses and their American contemporaries set about supplanting their British origins with a new American identity. This virtual program accompanies our current exhibition, Affairs of State: 118 Years of Diplomacy and Entertaining at Anderson House, on view through December 31, 2023.About the SpeakerJeanne Abrams is a professor of history at the University Libraries and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver, where she also serves as the director of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society and curator of the Beck Archives, Special Collections. She is the author of several books, including A View from Abroad: The Story of John Adams and Abigail Adams in Europe (New York University Press, 2021); First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role (New York University Press, 2018); and Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health (New York University Press, 2013).SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Catharine Macaulay’s An Address to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland American Revolution Institute 2023-08-28 | Research Services Librarian Rachel Nellis discusses Catharine Macaulay, a radical English writer and historian sympathetic to the American cause, and her 1775 pamphlet, An Address to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs. Using events such as Parliament’s passing of the Stamp Act and the Boston Massacre, Macaulay’s pamphlet was written as an appeal to Great Britain to change its policies towards the colonies. This Lunch Bite will not only examine the contents within the pamphlet, but various components of Macaulay’s life and her close friendships with leading figures of the American Revolution, including John and Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
An Orderly Book Kept by British General Robert Cuninghame American Revolution Institute 2023-08-28 | Museum Collections and Operations Manager Paul Newman discusses a manuscript orderly book kept by British General Robert Cuninghame from his time in command of an army camp near Clonmel, Ireland, 1778. An important historical record, this book records the daily orders disseminated at the camp and includes court martial proceedings, unit movements and the rotation of soldiers to be placed on guard duty. This Lunch Bite will examine the orderly book and its significance in offering a better understanding of everyday life in the British army during the late eighteenth century.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
The Patriots Monitor American Revolution Institute 2023-08-28 | It’s back to school season! To celebrate, this month’s Collections Corner features the Institute’s director of education, Stacia Smith, discussing The Patriot’s Monitor, an 1810 American primer written by Rev. Ignatius Thomson of Pomfret, Vermont. As this textbook was “designed to impress and perpetuate the first principles of the Revolution on the minds of youth,” Thomson selected key documents of America’s founding, from the Declaration of Independence through the inaugural addresses of the first four presidents of the United States, along with other moral and patriotic lessons. Adapted for the use of schools, each paragraph of each text is numbered to facilitate recitation and reading aloud in a classroom. View other segments of our Collections Corner videos: americanrevolutioninstitute.org/collections-corner-videosSUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
William Hunter: A British Soldiers Son Who Became an Early American Citizen | Gene Procknow American Revolution Institute 2023-08-24 | The son of a British soldier, William Hunter accompanied his father, a non-commissioned officer in the British army’s 26th Regiment of Foot, while on campaign during the American Revolution. Throughout the war, Hunter witnessed the first-hand terrors of combat, was captured twice, and produced the only surviving account written by a child of a British soldier. Drawing from Hunter’s recently discovered journal, which will be on display at the lecture, historian Euguene Procknow discusses his experiences during the Revolution and how they influenced him to become a prominent citizen of the United States in the early years of the republic.About the SpeakerGene Procknow is an independent historian of the American Revolution. Since 2013, he has authored twenty scholarly articles for the Journal of the American Revolution. From 2015 through 2022, Mr. Procknow’s articles have been selected and published in the print edition of the Annual Volume of the Journal of the American Revolution. In 2022, he published his first book, William Hunter – Finding Free Speech: A British Soldier’s Son Who Became an American. He also hosts and curates a website, www.researchingtheamericanrevolution.com, that assists researchers in locating primary source materials pertaining to the Revolutionary War.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
South Carolina Provincials—Loyalists in British Service During the American Revolution | Jim Piecuch American Revolution Institute 2023-08-03 | The Loyalists who supported the British during the American Revolution have frequently been neglected in accounts of that conflict. Nevertheless, Loyalists made significant efforts to assist British forces in restoring royal control of the thirteen colonies. This was especially true in South Carolina, where backcountry Loyalists under almost-forgotten leaders such as Joseph Robinson and Euan McLaurin challenged the Revolutionary movement in 1775. Although their initial efforts were unsuccessful, Robinson, McLaurin and hundreds of their followers eventually made their way to British East Florida, where they organized into a provincial regiment called the South Carolina Royalists. Operating in concert with British efforts, the Royalists were part of many notable actions from 1778 to 1781, including the defenses of East Florida and Savannah, Georgia, and the battles of Briar Creek, Stono Ferry, Musgrove’s Mill and Hobkirk’s Hill. A second provincial regiment created in 1780, Maj. John Harrison’s South Carolina Rangers, saw considerable action in operations against partisans under Francis Marion. When the British were forced to evacuate their backcountry posts in 1781, the Royalists, Rangers and three troops of Provincial Light Dragoons raised earlier in the year withdrew first to Charleston and then East Florida. From there, many went to Canada at the war’s end, with others dispersing to different British colonies to begin new lives after their strenuous but unsuccessful effort on behalf of king and country. Historian Jim Piecuch discusses the role of South Carolina’s Loyalists who took up arms to assist the British in quelling the American rebellion in the South.About the Speaker:Jim Piecuch, Ph.D., is a former professor of history at Kennesaw State University who has authored several articles and books on colonial and Revolutionary history, including The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History (History Press, 2006); Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South (University of South Carolina Press, 2008); Cavalry of the American Revolution (Westholme, 2012); and General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, co-authored with Gregory Massey (University of South Carolina Press, 2012). He earned his B.A. and M.A. Degrees in history at the University of New Hampshire and his Ph.D. in history at the College of William & Mary.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
A French Officer and the Franco-British Struggle for Global Dominance | Robert Selig American Revolution Institute 2023-08-03 | Jean-Baptiste Dupleix de Cadignan (1738-1824) entered the French army’s Régiment de Bourgogne-Infanterie as a lieutenant on April 15, 1754, five weeks before his sixteenth birthday. That same day, he began a diary that forms the basis for his over four-hundred page, two-volume journal owned by the Society of the Cincinnati. Commencing in April 1755, when he embarked for Louisbourg, Canada, Dupleix de Cadignan’s journal describes his experience as a prisoner of war in July 1758, his exchange the following year and additional imprisonment in Belfast after being captured off the coast of Sweden in 1760, his experience during the campaign against Pasquale Paoli in Corsica from 1769-1772, his expedition to St. Domingue (modern-day Haiti) following his promotion to lieutenant colonel in the Régiment d’Agenois in August 1777, his service in America during the latter years of the American Revolution, and his return home and retirement from the French army in 1784. Dupleix de Cadignan’s unique experiences combine accounts of naval warfare and siege warfare through the eyes of a single observer, and expand the geographic boundaries of the American Revolution by serving as a vivid reminder of the crucial role played by the French forces. Historian Robert A. Selig, Ph.D., discusses Dupleix de Cadignan’s illustrious military career while analyzing the causes and consequences of France’s military activities in the decades before the French Revolution.About the Speaker:Robert A. Selig is a historical consultant who holds a Ph.D. in history from the Universität Würzburg in Germany, whose research focuses on the role of French forces under the comte de Rochambeau during the American Revolution. Dr. Selig is the author of several books, including Hussars in Lebanon!: A Connecticut Town and Lauzun’s Legion during the American Revolution, 1780-1781 (Lebanon, 2004) and “En Avant” With Our French Allies: Sites, Markers, and Monuments in Connecticut Commemorating the Contributions of French Troops under the comte de Rochambeau to the Achievement of American Independence, 1780 to 1782 (Hartford, 2004), and was responsible for the introduction and annotation of A Treatise on Partisan Warfare by Johann von Ewald (Westport, 1991). Dr. Selig has published more than one hundred articles for publications that include the William and Mary Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies, Journal of Caribbean History, American Heritage, Naval History, Military History Quarterly, Colonial Williamsburg, German Life and the Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association. He currently serves as project historian to the National Park Service for the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail Project, which traces the land and water routes taken by the American and French forces from Newport, R.I., to Yorktown, Va., in 1781, and has also served as project historian for several surveys funded by the American Battlefield Protection Program related to the battles of Princeton, Green Spring and Spencer’s Ordinary, the Clouds, Red Bank, Bennington, Hubbardton, Paoli, the Hook, Stone Arabia and Klocks Field, and three phases of the Battle of Brandywine. He is the recipient of numerous awards, his most recent and prestigious having been made a chevalier de l’Ordre national du Merite by French president Emmanuel Macron in 2022, for his role as one of the foremost American historians on the contributions of France in the American Revolution. Recently, Dr. Selig was awarded a fellowship by the Society of the Cincinnati to conduct research on the journal of Lt. Col. Jean-Baptiste de Dupleix de Cadignan.SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
Washingtons Marines: The Origins of the Corps and the American Revolution | Gen. Jason Bohm American Revolution Institute 2023-06-29 | In the early days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress rushed to form an army but soon realized that, to win its freedom, America would need men who could fight both on land and sea. Enter the Marines. As Washington struggled to preserve his command after defeats in New York and New Jersey in 1776, the nascent U.S. Navy and Marines deployed the first American fleet, conducted their first amphibious operation, and waged a war on the rivers and seas to block British reinforcements and capture critically needed supplies. Desperate times forced Congress to detach the Continental Marines from the Navy to join the embattled army as Washington sought an “important stroke” to defeat his adversary. Soon after, Washington’s Marines joined a protracted land campaign that culminated in turning-point victories at Trenton, Assunpink Creek and Princeton, before Washington granted Gen. Henry Knox’s request to leverage the Marines’ expertise with naval guns to fill the depleted ranks of the army’s artillery during the “Forage War.” Drawing on his research in primary sources as well as his own military knowledge and experiences, Maj. Gen. Jason Bohm of the United States Marine Corps discusses his new book examining the Corps’ humble beginnings and what it achieved during the early years of the American Revolution, through successes and failures at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Canada, Boston, Charleston and more.About the SpeakerMaj. Gen. Jason Q. Bohm is a Marine with more than thirty years of service. An infantryman by trade, he has commanded at every level, from platoon commander to commanding general in peacetime and war. General Bohm has also served in several key staff positions, including as a strategic planner with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, director of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School; House Director, Marine Corps Office of Legislative Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives; and chief of staff of U.S. Naval Striking and Support Forces, NATO. General Bohm holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and master’s degrees in military studies and national security studies. Additionally, he has written several articles for the Marine Corps Gazette, and a book, From the Cold War to ISIL: One Marine’s Journey (Naval Institute Press, 2019).SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJFollow us on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRevo...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanrev...Twitter: twitter.com/AmRevInstituteStay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdLBecome an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3BonuqpVisit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.orgLearn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events#amrevinstitute
