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    • Samuel Fraunces
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    • Object of the Month
    • Path to Liberty Letter Transcriptions
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    • Fighting For Freedom Collection
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    • Liberty 250
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    • Flag Day Parade, Celebration and Open House
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2019

1/10/2019- Dianne Durante, Alexander Hamilton & the Reynolds Affair: a Three Part Moral and Political Account

1/24/2019- Robert Hubbard, Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution

2/7/2019- Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington

3/28/2019- Peter Stark, Young Washington

4/18/2019- John Buchanan, The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution

5/23/2019- Sara Georgini, Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family

6/20/2019- Christopher Wren, Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution

7/18/2019- Benjamin Huggins, Washington's War 1779

7/23/2019- Michael Newton, Discovering Hamilton

 

2018

1/25/2018- Edward Lengel, First Entrepeneur: How George Washington Built His -and the Nation's - Prosperity

2/22/2018- Harlow Giles Unger, First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence

3/8/2018- Joel Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall & His Times

4/26/2018- Kevin Gutzman, Thomas Jefferson- Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America

5/10/2018- Holger Hoock, Scars of Independence

6/28/2018- Marcus Rediker, Benjamin Lay and the Origins of American Abolitionism

7/20/2018- Virginia Anderson, Nathan Hale and Moses Dunbar: Choosing Sides in the American Revolution

8/23/2018- David Griffin, Lost British Forts of Long Island

9/6/2018- Carol Berkin, From Revolution to Nation: Creating A Sovereign People

9/19/2018- Joyce Lee Malcolm, The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life

10/11/2018- Andrew Shankman, Rethinking America: From Empire to Revolution

11/8/2018- Craig Bruce Smith, American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals During the Revolutionary Era

12/6/2018- Mary Stockwell, Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America


2017

1/9/2017- Michael Newton, Alexander Hamilton's Year of Birth: 1755 vs. 1757

1/19/2017- John Oller, The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution

2/7/2017- Alexander Katlan, Artist John Ward Dunsmore: Painting Technique and Conservation Treatments

2/23/2017- J.L. Bell, The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War

3/16/2017- Todd Braisted, Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City

4/20/2017- Spencer McBride, Beyond the Christian Nation: Religion and the Founding of the United States

5/4/2017- Michael Klarman, The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution

5/5/2017- George Goodwin, Benjamin Franklin in London: From British Royalist to American Patriot

6/22/2017- Eric Hinderaker, Boston's Massacre

7/6/2017- Roger Ekirch, Mutiny on the Hermione and the Presidential Election of 1800

7/10/2017- Robert Wright, Hamilton and the Economics of Slavery

8/3/2017- Robert Parkinson, Making the Common Cause

9/7/2017- Alastair Smith & Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Spoils of War

10/12/2017- Mark Lender, Fatal Sunday

11/2/2017- Rick Beyer, Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

11/20/2017- Robert Watson, The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: Untold Stories of the Revolution

12/7/2017- Glenn Williams, Dunmore's War: Last Conflict of the Revolution


 2016

1/21/2016- John Sedgwick, War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned a Nation

2/19/2016- Philip Briggs, Glover's Brigade 1776

3/10/2016- Philip Papas, Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee

4/21/2016- Don Glickstein, After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence

5/19/2016- Christian McBurney, Abductions in the American Revolution: Attempts to Kidnap George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and Other Military and Civilian Leaders

6/23/2016- Derek Beck, The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

7/7/2016- Michael Newton, Alexander Hamilton: Spymaster

8/25/2016- Patrick O’Donnell, Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution

9/22/2016- Ken Davis, In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives

9/23/2016- Damien Cregeau, Spies, Lies, & Alibis: Spies & Spy Tradecraft in and Around New York City

10/13/2016- Stephen Knott, Washington & Hamilton: The Alliance that Forged America

11/3/2016- Paul Staiti, Of Arms & Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes

12/1/2016- Richard Brown & Paul Cohen, New York in the Revolutionary War


 2015

1/8/2015- Ken Miller, Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence

2/26/2015- Paul Cohen & Robert Augustyn, Mapping Manhattan from the Revolutionary War to 1811

3/12/2015- Andrew Schocket, Fighting Over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution

4/23/2015- Thomas Fleming, The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation

5/21/2015- Carol Berkin, The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties

6/11/2015- Kenneth C. Davis, The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

6/16/2015- James Kaplan, Evacuation Day: New York's Forgotten Holiday

7/16/2015- Rosana Wan, The Culinary Lives of John & Abigail Adams: A Cookbook

8/6/2015- Kathleen Duval, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

9/17/2015- Laura Auricchio, The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered

10/8/2015- Ray Raphael, Spirit of '74

11/12/2015- Flora Fraser, The Washingtons: "Join'd by Friendship, Crown'd by Love"

12/17/2015- Cheney Schopieray, The Burbeck Files


 2014

1/30/2014- Daniel Richter, Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts

2/20/2014- Gordon Bond, Pinpointing Parker's Print Shop: Where New York's Premier Printer Worked & Why It Matters

3/20/2014- Philip J. Briggs, Kips Bay & Harlem Heights: The War for Independence on Manhattan, 1776

4/22/2014- Jeanne Abrams, Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers & Mothers in Sickness and Health

5/15/2014- Jean Zimmerman, Researching the "Orphanmaster"

6/12/2014- Claudio Saunt, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776

6/17/2014- James Kaplan, Marinus Willet: New York's Forgotten Hero

7/10/2014- William Chrystal, Secrets of the Founders

8/21/2014- Tim McGrath, Give Me A Fast Ship: The Continental Army and America's Revolution at Sea

9/18/2014- Jack Kelly, Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence

10/16/2014- Benjamin Carp, Order, Disorder, and Rebellion in the Taverns of Pre-Revolutionary New York City

11/6/2014- Michael Schellhammer, George Washington: The Master Tactician You Need To Meet

12/11/2014- Samuel Forman, Politics, Passion, and Action: Dr Joseph Warren and the Birth of American Liberty


2013

1/16/2013- Richard Bernstein, John Adams

2/28/2013- William Fowler, George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years after Yorktown

3/21/2013- Ruma Chopra, Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City During the Revolution

4/11/2013- Benjamin Carp, Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & The Making of America

5/9/2013- Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

6/13/2013- Christian McBurney, The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation of the Revolutionary War

6/18/2019- James Kaplan, Revolutionary Generals Buried in Lower Manhattan

7/11/2013- Andrew O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership in the Revolution

8/15/2013- Bruce Mowday, Washington's Defeat at Brandywine

9/26/2013- Robert Allison, The Barbary Wars & American Independence

10/17/2013- John Nagy, Dr Benjamin Church, Spy

11/7/2013- Don Hagist, British Soldiers, American War

12/12/2013- Steven Park, British Soldiers, American War


2012

1/19/2012- Jay Hochberg, Strict Observers of the Moral Law: Freemasonry's Ethics in Colonial Times

2/9/2012- Richard Bernstein, The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

3/29/2012- Elaine Crane, Witches, Wife Beaters, & Whores: Common Law & Common Folk in Early America

4/26/2012- Susan Matt, Homesickness: An American History

5/10/2012- Steven Jaffe, New York At War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham

6/7/2012- John Nagy, Spies in the Continental Capitol

6/12/2012- James Kaplan, Nathan Hale: American Spy, American Hero

7/12/2012- William Chrystal, Hamilton By The Slice

8/16/2012- Teresa Carpenter, New York Diaries

9/27/2012- Philip J. Briggs, Glover's Brigade

10/25/2012- Marcia Reiss, Lost New York

12/6/2012- Todd Andrlik, Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News


2011

1/13/2011- Barnet Schecter, George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps

3/3/2011- Gordon Bond, My Patron: The Friendship of Benjamin Franklin and James Parker

4/14/2011- John Fea, Was America Founded As A Christian Nation?

5/5/2011- Katharine Greider, The Archaeology of Home

5/19/2011- Ilyon Woo, The Great Divorce: A Story of the Early Republic

7/14/2011- Christine Sismondo, America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Bars, Taverns, Saloons, & Grog Shops

8/11/2011- Stephen Freedman, Ben Franklin & Friends: Scientists in the Enlightenment

9/29/2011- James Thompson, The Dubious Achievements of the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress

10/20/2011- Tim McGrath, John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail

11/16/2011- Gordon Bond, 18 Pence: The Story Behind A Piece of Colonial Currency

12/8/2011- Paul Lockhart, Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington


2010

1/21/2010- Thomas Fleming, The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

3/25/2010- John Nagy, Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution

4/22/2010- Michelle Temeres, By the People & For the People: Art for the American Masses

5/6/2010- Woody Holton, Abigail Adams

6/10/2010- James Kaplan, General Horatio Gates: New York's Forgotten Hero

7/22/2010- Alan Hoffman, Lafayette & The Farewell Tour: An American Idol

8/12/2010- Trudy Eden, The Early American Table: Food & Society in the New World

9/16/2010- Alexander Storozynski, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

10/14/2010- Peter Mancall, Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson

10/28/2010- Alan Gallay, Indian Slavery in Colonial America

11/17/2010- Anna Mae Duane, The Many Faces of Childhood in Early America

12/9/2010- Susan Klepp, Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America


2009

1/29/2009- Elizabeth Bradley, Washington Irving’s A History of New York

2/26/2009- Todd Braisted, The King’s Men: American Military Corps

3/26/2009- Robert Wright, One Nation Under Debt: The History of What We Owe

4/23/2009- Michelle & James Nevius, Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City

5/21/2009- Randall Mason, The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation in the Modern City

6/2/2009- James Kaplan, These Are The Times That Try Men's Souls: Thomas Paine

6/25/2009- Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America

7/16/2009- Kathleen Brown, Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America

9/24/2009- Ray Raphael, Taking Power

10/29/2009- Philip J. Briggs, Benjamin Franklin and the Constitutional Convention

11/9/2009- Carol Berkin, Civil War Wives: The Winds of Change

12/3/2009- Lee Dugatkin, Mr Jefferson and the Giant Moose

 

 

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