Image courtesy of Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown.

Friday, November 22, 2019

Next Meeting: January 15, 2020


Christian M. McBurney


Join us on January 15, 2020 as we kick-off the new year with Christian McBurney's presentation on "Charles Lee's Court Martial."

Meetings are held in the Westhampton Room, Heilman Dining Center (dining hall--building 410 on the campus map), University of Richmond, at 6:30 p.m. with dinner available for purchase beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Please plan on joining us!

University of Richmond campus map: 
http://www.richmond.edu/visit/maps/print/campus.pdf

2020 Harry M. Ward Book Prize Nominees

Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty, by Stephen Brumwell.  Yale University Press, 2018

Southern Gambit: Cornwallis and the British March to Yorktown, by Stanley D. M. Carpenter. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

Contest for Liberty: Military Leadership in the Continental Army, 1775-1783, by Seanegan P. Sculley. Westholme Publishing, 2019.

A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, by David Head. Pegasus Books, 2019.

Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero, by Christian Di Spigna. Crown Books, 2019.

The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution, by John Buchanan. University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Washington’s Revolutionary War Generals, by Stephen R. Taaffe. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

Ten Crucial Days: Washington’s Vision for Victory Unfolds, by William L. Kidder. Knox Press, 2019.

Revolutionary: George Washington at War, by Robert L. O’Connell. Random House, 2019.

2020 Meeting Speakers and Topics

The speakers and topics for our 2020 meetings are listed under the "Meetings" tab above. We hope to see you at all of them!