Hi Folks,
In July, Carl Zellner spoke to our largest turnout ever, as we listened and heard about the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. At the next American Revolution Round Table of Richmond meeting on Wednesday, September 19, Rick Britton of Charlottesville will tell us about another such ride, one closer to home – “From Cuckoo to Charlottesville: Jack Jouett’s Ride.” Dinner will be available at 5:30, with the meeting beginning at 6:30 in the Heilman Dining Center of the University of Richmond. Details and maps are at http://arrt-richmond.blogspot.com/p/2012-meeting-schedule.html and http://arrt-richmond.blogspot.com/p/2012-meeting-schedule.html. Please join us and bring a friend.
Here are other interesting items.
1. Harry Ward, our godfather, will host a book talk and signing at Book People on 536 Granite Ave in Richmond on Friday, September 21 from 6 – 8 PM. Harry will be discussing his latest tome Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia: A History, 1782 – 1907. A bit after the revolution, but certainly of local interest and importance. Try to join him. Check http://www.bookpeoplerichmond.com/.
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2. On March 22-24, 2013, Bruce Venter’s America’s History will be hold its Second Annual Conference on the American Revolution. This year’s speakers were excellent, as is the 2013 lineup.
America’s History, LLC
presents
2nd Annual Conference on the American Revolution
March 22-24, 2013
Williamsburg, Virginia
Edward G. Lengel, Head of Faculty: "Revolutionary Rivals: Horatio Gates and George Washington"
Douglas Cubbison: “Man on a Mission: John Burgoyne and the Campaign of 1777”
Joshua Howard: “The Swamp Fox: Francis Marion, Revolutionary War Hero of South Carolina”
James Kirby Martin: “Benedict Arnold: Revolutionary America’s Heroic General”
Andrew O’Shaughnessy: “Fighting with Friends and Enemies Simultaneously: Sir Henry Clinton”
Jim Piecuch: “Frustrated Ambitions: “Light Horse Harry Lee's Conflicts On and Off the Battlefield"
John V. Quarstein: “Closing the Door on Cornwallis: The Battle of the Capes September 1781”
Glenn F. Williams: “Lord Dunmore’s War: Training Ground for Continental Officers”
Two Panel Discussions:
“The Best and Worst Military Commanders of the Revolutionary War” and
“A Revolutionary War Bookshelf: What You Should Own and What Books will be Published Soon”
Optional Friday Bus Tour to Petersburg, Green Spring and Spencer’s Ordinary (includes lunch)
led by William Welsch
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Conference Package includes lunch, two continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks: $225
Friday Bus Tour (not included in Conference Package): $95
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3. Bill Seward alerted us to ARRT-R member Bert Dunkerly’s two upcoming classes on the revolutionary period. The first is “The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution” at the Virginia Historical Society. Details can be found at http://www.vahistorical.org/news/class.htm. The second is part of the University of Richmond’s Continuing Studies Program. This one will explore “George Washington and the French and Indian War.” Details are at http://spcs.richmond.edu/personal/history/index.html. These are great chances to hear great stories and to support a fellow member.
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4. And from Gina at Great Bridge Battlefield, information about their October 13 and 14, 2012 Waterways Heritage Festival http://gbbattlefield.org/waterwaysheritagefestival.html.
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5. Want to see what the Signers of the Declaration of Independence were reading? Check out this very interesting topic at Library Thing at http://www.librarything.com/blogs/librarything/2012/07/signers-libraries-on-librarything/. This thanks to our friend Dave Nardone of the Hale Byrnes ARRT of Delaware.
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6. Here are some upcoming fall lectures at the Jamestown Yorktown Foundation. Thanks Debby.
From Debby Padgett, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, 757-253-4175
2012 REVOLUTIONARY WAR LECTURE SERIES
FEATURES FOUR SPEAKERS IN SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER
YORKTOWN, Va., August 2012 – History professors and authors Fred Anderson of the University of Colorado, Abner (Woody) Linwood Holton III of the University of Richmond and John Tilley of East Carolina University will join Yorktown Victory Center Senior Curator Sarah Meschutt in presenting this year’s Revolutionary War lecture series on Saturday evenings, September 22 and 29 and October 6 and 27, at the Yorktown Victory Center’s Richard S. Reynolds Foundation Theater.
The free public 7 p.m. lectures are supported with private donations, including a grant from Dominion Resources for the Anderson lecture. Advance reservations are recommended by calling (757) 253-4572 or e-mailing [log in to unmask] The Yorktown Victory Center, a museum of the American Revolution, is located at State Route 1020 and the Colonial Parkway.
Sarah Meschutt starts the series on September 22 with “Patriots Claim a New Destiny; Loyalists Defend Their Heritage in the United States of America.” Framing the American Revolution as a watershed period that shaped lives in new ways and offered immense opportunities for those with powerful networking skills and ingenuity, Dr. Meschutt explores the causes for which Loyalists and Patriots fought and died and their lives in the aftermath of the war.
On September 29, Fred Anderson presents “‘Like the peace of God, it passeth all understanding’: The Peace of Paris (1763) and the Unforeseeable American Revolution.” Looking through the prism of a futurist novel published in 1763 that envisions ongoing 19th- and 20th-century wars with France, and later Russia, along with a slow decline of British power, Dr. Anderson explains why, at what is often understood as the dawn of the Revolutionary era, even the most pessimistic of English political writers assumed that the future of the North American colonies would be distinguished by perpetual peace and loyalty to the empire.
John Tilley will speak October 6 on the “Battle of the Capes,” which was critical to Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown in 1781 and the collapse of the British commitment to the war. Dr. Tilley will explore factors that impacted the battle, including personal relationships between key British commanders and communications problems that helped force Cornwallis’ surrender.
The series concludes October 27 with “Origins of the Constitution,” presented by Woody Holton. Drawing from his book “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution,” Dr. Holton finds present-day parallels in the crisis that led to the U.S. Constitution, pointing out that a deepening recession, skittish investors, an insurmountable federal debt, anti-tax protests and falling real estate values were the very challenges that led to the ratification of the Constitution 224 years ago.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Fred Anderson’s (September 29) extensive writings about the Seven Years’ War include the books “The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War” (2005) and “Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766” (2000). He is co-author, with Andrew Cayton, of “The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America,” 1500-2000 (2005). Dr. Anderson earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has worked since 1983 at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is Professor of Distinction and Director of Honors in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Woody Holton’s (October 27) “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution” (2007), was a finalist for the National Book Award. A two-time winner of the Virginia Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Dr. Holton also is author of “Abigail Adams” (2009), winner of the Bancroft Prize, and “Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia” (1999). Dr. Holton received a Ph.D. from Duke University and is professor of history and American Studies at the University of Richmond.
Sarah Meschutt (September 22) has worked as senior curator at the Yorktown Victory Center since 2008, with a key role in planning new permanent gallery exhibits. She previously was chief curator of art collections at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, consulting curator for the collections at Kykuit House in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., and keeper of edged weapons at the Royal Armouries Museum, H.M. Tower of London She has a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
John Tilley (October 6) is author of “The British Navy and the American Revolution” (1985) and “The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary: A History” (1992). He joined the faculty of East Carolina University, where he is associate professor of history, in 1983. He previously was assistant curator of collections at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News and earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
ABOUT THE YORKTOWN VICTORY CENTER
The Yorktown Victory Center chronicles the American Revolution, from colonial unrest to the formation of the new nation, through gallery exhibits and historical interpretation at re-creations of a Continental Army encampment and 1780s farm. Under the administration of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, a Virginia state agency, the museum is undergoing a transformation with a new facility and expanded exhibits and will be known at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown when the project is complete. The Yorktown Victory Center remains open to visitors daily while work is under way. For more information, visit www.historyisfun.org or call (888) 593-4682 toll-free or (757) 253-4838.
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7. Here’s information on the annual Francis Marion Symposium -
Dear Patriot:
You're invited to register & participate in the October 12-13, 2012 Symposium:
Francis Marion and the Southern Campaign
Immerse yourself in Francis Marion's world and the significance of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
Gen. Francis Marion played a major role in the American Revolution. Many of these engagements took place in the Clarendon County area. According to Professor Henry Lumpkin about a third of all battles were fought in SC and Marion had a hand in roughly a third of those.
Proposed agenda: Carl Borick: SC Patriots as Prisoners of War Patriot Prisoners who Fought with Marion; Dick Watkins: Land Genealogy 102: “Mounts” on the Coastal Plain: Revolutionary War-era plantations along the Congaree and Santee Rivers; David Reuwer: Myth-busting: Fact & Fiction Southern Campaign; Doug MacIntyre: The Battle of Sullivan’s Island: Thomson, Marion & Moultrie; Christine Swager: A Vicious Militia: This is Southern Hospitality? ; Bryan Brown & Ricky Roberts: “Every Insult and Indignity: the Life, Genius and Legacy of Major Patrick Ferguson” and Ferguson rifle with Demo; Col. Scott Aiken: Marion’s Partisan Campaign – Irregular Warfare; Karen MacNutt: Eyes and Ears of the Army with Marion; Mike Coker: Prisoners, Patriots & the Provost with Isaac Hayne; Our Historian: Joe Stukes as Light Horse Harry Lee
The site for the Symposium is the DuBose Campus, CCT College, Sign-in will be at 2 pm on Friday, October 12.
Explore the Southern Campaign with General Francis Marion, the vital South Carolina campaigns led by General Francis Marion (“The Swamp Fox”) and other Revolutionary War heroes. The Swamp Fox Murals Society will host this two-day gathering of Marion enthusiasts. Historical presentations and discussions are on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning & afternoon, plus a Friday evening dinner and a Saturday “Evening in History” dinner theater; and the registration fee includes all through the Saturday dinner finale
Discounts for early registration before September 19, 2012 and for couples.
Site: DuBose Campus / Central Carolina Tech College, Manning, SC
(located just off I-95 (Exit 122) on US 521, 1/2 mile East of I-95).
Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society, PO Box 667, Manning, SC 29102
Details & registration form are posted: http://www.francismarionsymposium.com
Thanks to our Sponsors & Helpers, 2011:
Bank of Clarendon, Manning; The Citizens Bank of Turbeville; The Clarendon Citizen, Manning; DuBose Campus, Central Carolina Technical College, Manning; Don Ellis, CPA, Manning; Farmers Telephone Coop, Kingstree; In Honor of Nell Black, Manning; Edward Jones, R. Bradshaw, Manning; Manning IGA, L. Kennedy; Manning Restaurant; NBSC, Manning; ProthroChevrolet, Manning; G & C Summers, Manning; Turbeville IGA Plus, H. Smith; Turbeville Ruritan Club; and W & D Turbeville,Manning & the Ladies of the Azalea Garden Club
Francis Marion Advocates: Pushing back the frontier of ignorance.
Swamp Fox Murals Trail Society
PO Box 667
Manning, SC 29102
803-478-2645
cells: 803-460-9626, 803-460-7416
Next: www.francismarionsymposium.com Oct 12-13, 2012 Check the Plans.
www.francismarioncountry.com - Living History Encampment:
last one Feb. 23-25, 2012, Very Best Ever;
& next one: Feb 22-23, 2013
www.clarendonmurals.com www.francismariontrail.com
www.swampfoxtrail.com www.swampfoxcountry.com
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8. For information about the Ninth Annual Fort Ticonderoga Seminar on the American Revolution http://www.fortticonderoga.org/userfiles/files/SAR%20Brochure%202012%20web%2004-2012.pdf
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9. Finally, mark your calendars for the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution’s Conference on Light Horse Harry Lee in Charlotte, NC on April 26 –28, 2013. Details will follow.
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This should probably keep you busy for a time. Thanks to all for reading this long post and for passing along this information.
Bill Welsch
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