Lecture – “The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs”

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This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom.  In the event of inclement weather, this will be a virtual-only event.  Registrants will be notified.  Registration is required.  Log-in information provided at registration. Join historian Don Hagist as he discusses his book The Revolution's Last Men:  The Soldiers Behind the Photographs.  During the Civil War came the realization that only a handful of veterans of the American Revolution still survived.  Six of these men were photographed and interviewed for a book by Reverend E. B. Hillard that appeared late in 1864. Their Read More

Lecture – “A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic”

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This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom.  Registration is required.  Log-in information provided at registration. In partnership with the David Center and the American Philosophical Society Francis D. Cogliano will discuss his new book A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic. Cogliao examines the similarities and differences between the two statesmen whose estrangement mirrored key political fissures of the early United States, as the unity of revolutionary zeal gave way to competing visions for the new nation. A Revolutionary Friendship brilliantly captures the dramatic, challenging, and poignant reality that Read More

Lecture- Colin Zimmerman – Lafayette and Bucks County

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This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom. Registration required.  Log-in information provided at registration. In 1824 the Marquis de Lafayette returned to America for a tour that reunited him with many of his fellow Revolutionary War veterans.  In September 1824, while en route to New York, he travelled through Bucks County - a place he'd been many times during the war.  To mark the bicentennial of his return military historian Colin Zimmerman will explore Lafayette's legacy and the time he spent in Bucks County during the revolution.

Lecture – Brady Crytzer – “The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis”

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This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom. Registration required.  Log-in information provided at registration. Join historian Brady Crytzer as he discusses his book The Whiskey Rebellion:  A Distilled History of an American Crisis.   In March 1791 Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton shocked the western frontier when he proposed a tax on whiskey to balance America’s national debt. The law, known  as the “Whiskey Act,” disproportionately penalized farmers in the backcountry, while offering favorable tax incentives designed to protect larger distillers. Settlers in Western Pennsylvania bristled at its passage and demanded Read More

Lecture – Colin Zimmerman – “Colonel Carl von Donop and the Events Surrounding the Battle of Trenton”

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This is a hybrid event. Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom. Registration required. Log-in information provided at registration. Join military historian Colin Zimmerman as he dissucsses Hessian Colonel Carl von Donop and his role in the events surrounding the Battle of Trenton and how the Hessian defeat impacted his legacy. Colonel von Donop arrived in New York in August, 1776 and was part of the battles of Brooklyn Heights, Harlem Heights and White Plains. In December Donop commanded the British garrisons in New Jersey. After several clashes in Burlington County, Donop took his troops to Mount Read More