Symposium with Gadsby’s Tavern Museum and Emerging Revolutionary War

Cost is $40 per person, $20 OHA Members & Students. Reservations online

Gadsby’s Tavern Museum highlights the complexity of early America in a virtual symposium. The roots of the challenges and uncertainties during the Early Republic period reach back to what transpired before and during the Revolutionary War. In preparation for the 250th anniversary of 1776, public historians share their research into this turbulent time during a one-day symposium in partnership with Emerging Revolutionary War. The symposium will be held virtually on May 22, 2021.

Speakers for the event are listed below:

* Vanessa Smiley- American Revolutionary War from the Bottom Up; Southern Theater Misconceptions

* Michael Harris - General John Sullivan and the Battle of Brandywine

* Travis Shaw - Disaffected and Dangerous Persons: Loyalist Resistance in the Mid-Atlantic

* Mark Maloy - Drunk Hessians and Other Myths of the Ten Crucial Days

* John Rees - ’They Were Good Soldiers’: African Americans in the Continental Army