ARRT-Richmond News
The Dr. Harry M. Ward Roast & Recognition Dinner
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Cash Bar at 6:00 p.m.
Dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Program at 8:00 p.m.
Keller Hall, University of Richmond
Be sure to mark your calendars for this event; it will certainly be one not to miss!
The American Revolution Round Table of Richmond will be honoring Dr. Harry M. Ward at a testimonial dinner on Saturday, October 16. This sit down dinner will be held at the University of Richmond, where Dr. Ward taught for 35 years and is now William Binford Vest Professor of History, Emeritus. Harry is still active in his scholarship and writing, with 19 books to his credit.
We invite you to join us on October 16. Invitations have been sent via email and USPS and are hopefully self-explanatory. Dr. Mark Danley, one of Harry's former students, will deliver a lecture in his honor. The agenda is falling into place, with a number of other organizations joining in the evening. It should be both an enjoyable and appropriate event. All that's missing is you. Please join us. And please contact Bill Welsch with any questions.
The cost of the dinner is $36.00 per person and is payable by October 4, 2010. Checks should be made payable to "ARRT-Richmond." Please send check and completed registration form to:
Bill Welsch
10708 Rocket Drive
Glen Allen, VA 23060
Thank you for your assistance. We look forward to seeing you on October 16.
Maps and Charts of American Historical Interest
Heritage Charts is a British organisation dedicated to the research and reproduction of antique maps and charts of America's coastlines. Many of their charts were drawn between 1769-1781 and show astonishing details of the coastline, colonial movements and the settlements at the time of the War of Independence. Click here for more information:
http://www.heritagecharts.com/maps.php/about-us
Heritage Charts has access to the original works of the great hydrographers such as De Barres, Blaskowitz and Holland, and has spent the last year carefully exhuming these fascinating and forgotten images from British archives where they have lain untouched for over 200 years.
A great number of the charts they have access to have never been seen in the USA before. They've discovered that so many of the charts circulating the antiquarian world in the USA are copies by less talented artists of the time, with the majority of these have been removed from old books and atlases. All of their charts can be viewed in detail on their website, meaning that you have easy access to a excellent reference source online.
Lafayette Documentary Premieres September 13, 2010
Here is some more follow-up about "Lafayette: The Lost Hero," the PBS documentary that tells the life story of the Marquis de Lafayette, that controversial figure from both the American and French Revolutions, which premieres nationally on PBS stations on Monday, September 13 at 10 p.m. ET.
You can watch and/or embed on your site an online trailer for the film at http://vimeo.com/8698282. As noted in the trailer, "History has an imperfect memory . . . France and America have always had a strange, love-hate relationship . . . Neither side likes to admit it, but each defines itself -- at least partly -- by the other. . . . Maybe the Marquis de Lafayette, this figure from the distant past, a foreigner, a Frenchman, can tell us something important about ourselves, and help us remember a time when America emerged as the symbol of freedom in the world. Following his trail into the past, we might even understand more about where we're headed now." [The narrator in the trailer (and the film) is actor John Cullum (Northern Exposure, ER, The Middle).]
Massachusetts Historical Society's Boston Area Early
American History Seminars
Please join us for the 2010-2011 season of the Boston Area Early
American History Seminar.
This will be the seminar's 22d year at the Massachusetts Historical
Society, where it moved in 1989 after a distinguished beginning at
Boston University. Each year our steering committee works to provide a
varied menu of programs. This year is no exception. Individual
sessions consider 17th, 18th, and early-19th-century topics. Religion,
politics, the economy, family life, slavery-all have found places on our
schedule for the coming year. Our essayists include senior scholars,
those at mid-career, and emerging talents in our profession. The
complete schedule is available at
http://www.masshist.org/events/beahs.cfm.
Our first session for 2010-2011 will take place on Thursday, September
16, at 5:15 p.m. at the MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, in Boston. Frank
Bremer of Millersville University will present "Not Quite So Visible
Saints: Reexamining Church Membership in Early New England." Bremer
takes a creative new look at a subject we thought Perry Miller and
Edmund S. Morgan had already explained to us. Evan Haefeli of Columbia
University will provide the response.
As in the past, we are making the essays available to subscribers as
.pdfs through the seminar's webpage,
http://www.masshist.org/events/beahs.cfm. Subscribe to the 2010-2011
series online via this page to receive the full series of papers.
For additional information or to receive email announcements of
forthcoming programs, contact Research Coordinator Kate Viens at
617-646-0568 or kviens@masshist.org.
Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"
For those with an interest in the war in the Boston area, there is a very interesting new web site devoted to the study of Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride. The poem turns 150 this year. Check http://www.paulreveresride.org/ for history and background of the poem.
Book Wanted
Rob Pettus would like to borrow the book entitled Flight from Monticello by Michael Kranish. If someone has this in their library and would be willing to lend it to Rob he would be very grateful. Rob Pettus 690-0268
New Website
Bill Anderson, a software engineer, has developed a new website "American Revolution Troop Deployment Timeline" at http://home.earthlink.net/~historycarolina/AmRevTroopDeployment.htm. While the current emphasis is the southern campaigns, there are already other campaigns included and more to come. Bill is also looking for assistance. You can contact him at historycarolina@earthlink.net. This is definitely worth your time.
Book Catalog
Randall House Rare Books in California sent along a link to a very interesting book catalog. It's at http://www.RandallHouseRareBooks.com/RevWarCatLite.pdf. Some fascinating items.
Battle of Petersburg Trip Photos
SCAR's Bob Yankel has posted his excellent photo gallery from our 1781 Battle of Petersburg trip at the American Revolution Association web site at http://www.americanrevolutionassociation.com/Images/BattleOfPetersburg2009/. Bob says that "conversely, one can navigate to the American Revolution Association web site at http://www.americanrevolutionassociation.com/ then click on the Photos button at the far right of the menu bar and select “1781 Battle of Petersburg”. Once a user gets to the Photo Gallery, they can click on “View as Slideshow” if they wish to watch hands off (but there are no captions on the slideshow)."
John Fea, Our November Speaker
John Fea, who did a great job speaking to us about Philip Vickers Fithian at our last meeting, sent along the following request:
"If you run into any members who bought my book on Fithian and read it, perhaps you might coax them into writing a short review of it on Amazon. One of the downsides of going with a University Press is that you need to do your own publicity!"
John's book is at http://www.amazon.com/Way-Improvement-Leads-Home-Enlightenment/dp/0812220595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261686440&sr=1-1.
Declaration of Independence Broadside on Exhibit at the Yorktown Victory Center
Anyone who missed the recent display of the Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence at the Virginia Historical Society may be interested in learning that another early broadside, printed in Boston about July 18, 1776, is on exhibit at the Yorktown Victory Center. The acquisition of this broadside was announced last month. For more information: http://www.historyisfun.org
John Eager Howard in the American Revolution
The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company will shortly be sending us a complimentary copy of John Eager Howard in the American Revolution by Jim Piecuch and John Beakes. Howard was one of the outstanding regimental commanders of the war and certainly deserving of such a biography. This will be raffled off at a future meeting. Thanks to Denise James at N&A Publishing. Their site is http://www.nauticalaviation.bizland.com/.
"Goochland County Historical Society" Magazine
The current number (Vol. 41) of the "Goochland County Historical Society Magazine" contains an outstanding article by John Maass entitled "The Greatest Terror Imaginable: Cornwallis Brings His Campaign to Goochland, June 1781." This was the basis for John's recent lecture. Also, a bonus for those interested in that other war is an article by John Coski "Four Goochland Soldiers in the Civil War: Highlights from The Museum of the Confederacy's Library Collection." The GCHS can be contacted through their site at http://www.goochlandhistory.org/index.html
July Meeting--Photos
Holly Mayer offered an outstanding presentation on camp followers in the revolution at our last meeting. Bob Yankle, SCAR picture guru and photographer and web master for the American Revolution Association and Magazine attended our July meeting and has assembled a gallery of photos from that meeting. They can be viewed at http://www.americanrevolutionassociation.com/Images/ARRTRichmondJuly152009/index.html.
Thanks, Bob!
American Revolution Association Website
David Reuwer's web site for the American Revolution Association is developing very nicely. Check it at http://www.americanrevolutionassociation.com/. And don't forget to join the rolls of the magazine. You'll be very impressed.
Thank You!
A hearty "Thank you!" to Black Swan Books for providing the books that we auction at our meetings.
Black Swan Books, Inc.
2601 West Main Street (corner of Main and Robinson)
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 353-9476