Restoring the Importance of Our American History...Understanding it Better
Friday, March 28 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 30, 2025 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $295
Conference + Bus Tour: $470HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
“America’s Premier Conference on the American Revolution – Always In-Person, Never on Zoom”™
Friday, March 15 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 17, 2024 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $345HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
“America’s Premier Conference on the American Revolution”
“Always In-Person, Never on Zoom”
Keynote Speaker: Rick Beyer – “The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery”
Edward G. Lengel – Head of Faculty
Tyler Bamford (Emerging Scholar) – “The Anglo-American Alliance”
Robert Child – “Immortal Valor: World War II Black Medal of Honor Recipients”
Jeff Dacus – “The Fighting Corsairs: The Men of Marine Fighting Squadron 215 in the Pacific”
Larrie Ferreiro – “Churchill’s American Arsenal: The Combat Scientists Who Helped to Win World War II”
Rich Frank– “The War in the Pacific, 1942-1944”
Jared Frederick – “The Attack at Pointe du Hoc”
Will Ross – “The Massacre at Malmedy
Flint Whitlock – “First to Fight: The Big Red One in North Africa”
Friday, March 23 (6:30pm) – Sunday to March 25, 2018 (noon)
Williamsburg, Virginia
Conference Registration: $245
Conference Registration + Bus Tour: $355
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Edward G. Lengel, Head of Faculty — Light Horse Harry Lee at Fort Motte, 1781
Nathaniel Philbrick – Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold and the Fate of the American Revolution
James Kirby Martin – The River that Mattered Most in the Revolutionary War
Stuart Leibiger – Washington and Lafayette: Father and Son of the Revolution
Christian McBurney – The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French—American Operation of the Revolutionary War
Eric Schnitzer – Feuds and Friendships: Horatio Gates, Benedict Arnold and Philip Schuyler during the Saratoga Campaign
Richard J. Sommers – Founding Fathers and Fighting Sons: The Revolutionary War Forbearers of Civil War Soldiers and Statesmen
Glenn F. Williams – Dunmore’s War and the Battle of Point Pleasant
Stephanie Seal Walters – Emerging Scholar—Civil War of the Heart: Virginia’s First Families & the Revolution’s Devastation at Home
Friday, March 24 – Sunday to March 26, 2017 (Conference begins at 6:30pm)
Williamsburg, Virginia
Conference Registration: $245
Edward G. Lengel, Head of Faculty – George III’s American Madness
James Kirby Martin – The Real Continentals: Joseph Plumb Martin and His Comrades
David Preston – The Legacy of Braddock’s Defeat on the American Revolution
Mark Lender – Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign and the Politics of Battle
John Grenier – Staying Loyal to the King: Why Robert Rogers Did Not Join the Rebels
Michael Gabriel – Major General Richard Montgomery: The Making of an American Hero
Dennis Conrad – A Sea Change: Naval Warfare in the American Revolution during the Spring of 1778
Robert Smith: – Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation during the American Revolution
Robert Selig – Rochambeau’s Most Colorful Officer: Robert Guillaume, Baron de Dillon of Lauzun’s Legion
Friday, March 18 – Sunday to March 20, 2016 (Conference begins at 6:30pm)
Colonial Williamsburg Woodlands Hotel
Williamsburg, Virginia
Conference Package: $225 (includes lunch and refreshment breaks)
Edward G. Lengel, Head of Faculty:“The Action was Warm in Every Quarter”: The Battle of Germantown
Nathaniel Philbrick: “Stand Secure Amidst a Falling World”: The Battle of Bunker Hill
Daniel Krebs: The King’s German Auxiliaries during the American War of Independence
Kathleen Duval: Spain’s Unsung Hero: Bernado Galvez and the Capture of Pensacola 1781
Peter Henriques: America’s Atlas: The Leadership of George Washington
James Kirby Martin: Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec
Todd Braisted: The Grand Forage of 1778: The Revolutionary War’s Forgotten Campaign
John Bell: The Road to Concord: How Four Small Cannons Set Off the American Revolution
Molly Fitzgerald Perry:“The Lowest of the Mob”: Exploring the Actions of Sailors and Slaves during the Stamp Act Crisis
Friday, March 20 (7pm) – Sunday, March 22 (Noon)
Colonial Williamsburg Woodlands Hotel
Williamsburg, Virginia
Conference Package: $225
Edward G. Lengel, Head of Faculty: “Enigmatic Warrior: Light-Horse harry Lee at the Battle of Eutaw Springs”
Rick Atkinson: “Bringing Back the Dead: History, Memory, and Writing About War”
John “Jack” Buchanan: “ ‘A Great and Good Man’: Nathanael Greene and the Road to Charleston”
Don Hagist: “The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers behind the Photographs”
James Kirby Martin: “The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King: George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy”
Holly Mayer: “Command and Control of congress’s Own: Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment”
Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy: “Hot Weather and Heavy Casualties: The Revolutionary War in the Caribbean”
Julia Anne Osman: “From Greatest Enemies to Greatest Allies: France and America in the War for Independence”
Thursday, May 28, 8am to 5pm
Leaving from the Omni Hotel – Richmond, Virginia
Our Tour Leaders: Edward G. Lengel, William Welsch and Bruce Venter
Registration Fee: $145
America’s History’s fifth tour for the Company of Military Historians will focus on Virginia’s major Revolutionary War campaign: General George Washington’s victory over Lt. Gen. Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army at Yorktown in October 1781. We have enlisted an award-winning author and historian as part of our tour team. Edward G. Lengel is editor-in-chief of the Papers of George Washington Project at the University of Virginia and author of three books on Washington, including the highly acclaimed General George Washington: A Military Biography. He will be joined by Bill Welsch, an author and popular Revolutionary War tour leader; some members will remember Bill as the leader our Trenton tour in 2011. Bruce Venter, president of America’s History, LLC, a Company member and author of The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America (2015) will provide the British side of the story.
Friday, March 23-Sunday, March 25, 2012
Williamsburg Hospitality House in Williamsburg, VA
Registration and sign-in starts at 6pm on Friday
Our first presentation will be at 7:45 PM on Friday, March 23 with:
Edward G. Lengel, Head of Faculty: “General George Washington”
Saturday’s program (includes lunch) will start at 8:30 AM with presentations by:
John Hall: “Washington’s Partisans: Early American Warfare Reconsidered”
Joshua Howard: “Into the Breach: Nathanael Greene’s 1781 South Carolina Campaign”
Mark Lender: “What Kind of Victory: Washington, the Army and Monmouth Reconsidered”
Paul Lockhart: “The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill and the First American Army”
Andrew O’Shaughnessy: “The Men Who Lost America: British Politicians and Generals”
