Events

Join us on November 15-16, 2024, as we explore a significant engagement of the Revolution’s Southern Campaign: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The two-day experience will kick off with a Friday evening dinner and lecture given by historian Dennis Conrad, Ph.D., editor of The Papers of Nathanael Greene, discussing Greene’s leadership and various events that led to the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. On Saturday, a day-long guided tour of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park and other associated locations will be led by historian John Maass, Ph.D., author of The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement. The tour will closely examine the battle and explore the various combat locations that comprised it.

Registration for Saturday’s day-long guided bus tour is currently sold out, though a limited number of tickets for Friday evening’s dinner and lecture are now available. To be placed on our waiting list for Saturday’s day-long guided tour, please contact the Institute’s historical programs manager, Andrew Outten (aoutten@societyofthecincinnati.org), to be notified of any potential availability. The waiting list will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis.  

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About the Speaker and Guide

Dennis Conrad is a historian whose research focuses on various aspects of the American Revolution and United States naval history. Prior to his retirement, he served as a historian for Naval History and Heritage Command. Having received his Ph.D. from Duke University, he was the contributing editor of several publications on the American Revolution, including The Papers of Nathanael Greene, Naval Documents of the American Revolution Series, and Sea Raiders of the American Revolution: The Continental Navy in European Waters. Dr. Conrad also served as the lead historian for a documentary highlighting the U.S. Navy in the Spanish American War in 2014. In 2021, he was awarded a fellowship by the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati to conduct research in the American Revolution Institute’s library for an in-depth study of Gen. Nathanael Greene’s transition from quartermaster general to commander of the Continental forces in the South during the critical year 1780. His research in our library focused on Greene’s leadership of a large detachment of the Continental Army in the Northern Department, through when he became the commander of the Continental Army in the Southern Department to recapture the Deep South.

John Maass is a military historian and educator at the National Museum of the U.S.
Army at Fort Belvoir, Va. He is the author of numerous books on Revolutionary War military
history, including “That Unhappy Affair”: Horatio Gates and the Battle of Camden (Kershaw County Historical Society, 2001); North Carolina and the French and Indian War: The Spreading Flames of War (The History Press, 2013); The Road to Yorktown: Jefferson, Lafayette, and the British Invasion of Virginia (The History Press, 2015); George Washington’s Virginia (The History Press, 2019); The Battle of Guilford Courthouse: A Most Desperate Engagement (The History Press, 2020); Defending a New Nation, 1783-1811 (U.S. Army Campaigns of the War of 1812, Department of the Army, 2013); and North Carolina: A Military History (Westholme Publishing, 2022), with fellow historian Mark Bradley. Dr. Maass is currently working on a new book, From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War, due out in 2025. He was the Society of the Cincinnati’s first research fellow, having received the Tyree-Lamb Fellowship in 2007. Throughout his time as a fellow in our library, Dr. Maass researched the Revolutionary War and state formation in North Carolina from 1776 through 1789, which contributed to the earning of his Ph.D. from Ohio State University.