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

This event is in-person only at the Visitor Center Auditorium. Registration required. Join us for a 1 hour lecture on Jack D. Warren Jr.'s new book on the American Revolution. Published under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence. It tells the pivotal story of the courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom. Written for Americans intent on Read More

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.

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

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 discusses 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