September 2023
Dinner and Lecture – The Prelude to Monmouth
This dinner and lecture at the Hyatt Regency Morristown kicks off the Institute’s next two-day battlefield tour experience exploring a significant turning point of the American Revolution: the Battle of Monmouth. The evening begins at 5 p.m. with cocktails will be available through a cash bar, followed by a buffet style dinner. Following dinner, a lecture featuring award-winning historian Ricardo A. Herrera, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army War College discussing the events that led to the Battle of Monmouth. The…
Find out more »Battlefield Tour – The Battle of Monmouth
Join us as we explore the the Battle of Monmouth. Using Morristown, N.J., as our base of operations, this experience will include a Friday evening dinner and lecture given by award-winning historian Ricardo A. Herrera, Ph.D., of the U.S. Army War College discussing the events that led to the battle. Accompanying the dinner and lecture, a guided bus tour of Monmouth Battlefield the following day will closely examine the events that transpired during the siege and explore various key locations…
Find out more »Lunch Bite – Statues of Nathan Hale
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” The words Nathan Hale is said to have uttered just before being hanged as a spy by the British are among the best remembered of the Revolution. The young schoolteacher-turned-officer-turned-spy was a hero to nineteenth-century Americans, but they didn’t know what he looked like, as no contemporary likeness survived. Then two American sculptors working at the turn of the twentieth century imagined Nathan Hale in bronze…
Find out more »October 2023
Author’s Talk – Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Ashli White, professor of history at the University of Miami, explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions and argues that radical ideals in the eighteenth century were contested through objects as well as in texts. In this lecture on her new book, Dr. White considers how revolutionary things brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a range of objects—ceramics and furniture, garments and accessories,…
Find out more »Author’s Talk – The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. Jane Welborn Spurgin was a patriot who welcomed Gen. Nathanael Greene to her home and aided the Continental forces. Her husband was a loyalist and an officer fighting for King George III in the local Tory militia. Cynthia Kierner, professor of history at George Mason University, discusses her new book that focuses on the wife of a middling backcountry…
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