Hero of Two Worlds - The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Mike Duncan talked about the Marquis de Lafayette and his role in the American and French Revolutions. The Strand Book Store hosted this online program.
733 viewsMike Duncan talked about the Marquis de Lafayette and his role in the American and French Revolutions. The Strand Book Store hosted this online program.
733 viewsAuthorized in 1776 by the Continental Congress, the 2nd Canadian Regiment was the first national unit in the American Army. Author Holly Mayer described the role of “Congress’s Own” in the A…
546 viewsThomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette -- portrayed by Monticello’s Bill Barker and Colonial Williamsburg’s Mark Schneider-- discussed the French Revolution, the alliance between thei…
1,059 viewsJoseph Wheelan explores the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. The author chronicles President James Polk’s desire to acquire California via war and the popular dissent that followed the …
2,603 viewsSyracuse University political science Professor Dennis Rasmussen relayed that some of America’s founders, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton, w…
652 viewsU.S. Naval Academy superintendent Sean Buck talked about the life and career of Stephen Decatur, a War of 1812 hero later killed in a duel with disgraced fellow naval officer James Barron. T…
686 viewsCathy Gorn described the National History Day contest held at the University of Maryland, College Park. Then, three middle school students presented their entry in the competition, a 10-minu…
1,146 viewsA panel of three scholars discussed four aspects of the year 1619: the beginnings of representative government, the arrival of the first enslaved Africans, the experiences of women, and the …
474 viewsNorfolk State University professor Cassandra Newby-Alexander discussed the history of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia in 1619. In August 1619, colonist John Rolfe recorded t…
2,181 viewsNick Bunker talked about his book, An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, about the three years preceding the start of the Revolutionary War. In his book, the author exami…
2,101 viewsThis ceremony commemorated the reopening of the U.S. Army Women’s Museum in Fort Lee, Virginia. Visitors there find the stories of women who have served their country since the Revolutionar…
329 viewsAuthor and documentary filmmaker Tom Shachtman recalled the role that the French played in assisting the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. According to the author, close to ten …
1,026 viewsProfessor Francois Furstenberg talked about five aristocrats who fled the French Revolution in the early 1790s and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spoke about French influence on t…
939 viewsRobert Smith talked about his book, Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy, about the roles played by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison…
1,117 viewsCassandra Good talked about James Monroe’s works as a diplomat in Europe and his international policies as president. She was interviewed at the Society for Historians of American Foreign…
751 viewsDavid Bailey talked about the “Distant Treasures in the Mist” exhibit, which features Spanish colonial artifacts recovered from a defensive rifle pit, and gave a tour of the Kannah Creek exc…
472 viewsProfessor Carlos Manuel Salomon, author of Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California, talked about Mexicans of African descent who were some of the first non-Indian settlers in Calif…
3,415 viewsLaw professors talked about the origins of the Magna Carta and its influence on the U.S. Bill of Rights. This event took place at the Library of Congress, where a 1215 copy of the Magna C…
1,191 viewsMartha Gutierrez Steinkamp talked about her book, Spain: The Forgotten Alliance: Independence of the United States, about the role Spain played in the Revolutionary War. Spain offered its na…
634 viewsDennis Conrad talked about America’s naval heritage and the changes in the nature of naval warfare during the American Revolution. Mr. Conrad also described how ships from the colonies, then…
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