Revolutionary War Week in Charleston
The events of the American Revolution changed the course of history. Two noted South Carolina cultural institutions are partnering to bring awareness to this pivotal period. Colonial Charleston, a coalition of thirteen Charleston-area historic sites, is promoting programming, tours and lectures for the week of April 23 – April 30.
For a calendar of Revolutionary War Week programming, please click here or call (843) 722-9350.
The Citadel Military College of South Carolina has gathered the nation’s leading historians to speak for the kick-off symposium at Bond Hall (Rm#165) on April 23, 2016. Those interested in attending should contact The Citadel at (843) 225-3294 or visit www.ColonialCharleston.com for more information. Dr. James Kirby Martin, The Mark W. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at The Citadel (2015-2016), and award-winning author Dr. David Preston, will provide introductions and moderate. The symposium focus will be the various theaters of the 1775-1783 conflict.
Revolutionary War Week Kick-off Event!
Theaters of the American Revolution Symposium
Location- Bond Hall (Rm# 165), Citadel Campus
April 23, 2016
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost- FREE
Contact-(843) 225-3294
The Northern Theater, Dr. James Kirby Martin
The Southern Theater, Dr. Jim Piecuch
The Middle Theater, Dr. Ed Lengel
The War at Sea, Dr. Charles Neimeyer
The Western Theater, Dr. Mark Edward Lender
Mark Edward Lender is Emeritus Professor of History at Kean University, NJ. He earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers University and went on to teach at both Rutgers University and Kean University. He has written widely on early American military and social history, and his books include the award-winning Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield; A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789; and Drinking in America: A History (both with James Kirby Martin).
Edward G. Lengel received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 1998, and is now Professor and Editor-in-Chief of the Papers of George Washington documentary editing project at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder, in Myth and Memory (2011), and General George Washington: A Military Life, which was a 2006 finalist for the prestigious George Washington Book Prize. He is also the recipient of the National Humanities Medal for his work on the Papers of George Washington. A sampling of Washington’s Revolutionary War correspondence can be found in Lengel’s collection, This Glorious Struggle: George Washington’s Revolutionary War Letters (2008).
In addition to his work on the American Revolution, he has also written extensively on World War I.
James Kirby Martin is the Mark W. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at The Citadel for 2015-2016. He is also Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of History at the University of Houston. Martin is among the most prolific authors on the American Revolution. A native of the American Midwest, he earned his B.A. from Hiram College in Ohio and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was a professor at Rutgers University before accepting a position at the University of Houston in 1980. His current research is a book-length study of George Washington and political power during the Revolution, focusing on the story of the Newburgh Conspiracy. He is also the author of A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789; Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution (2006), with Joseph T. Glatthaar; Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered (1997) and Drinking in America: A History 1620-1980 (1987). He has also edited journals of Revolutionary War soldiers, including Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin (2013).
Charles Neimeyer is the Director and Chief of Marine Corps History at Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia. As such he is responsible for the collection, production, publication, and dissemination of Marine Corps History and manages the functioning of a wide variety of Marine Corps historical programs. Prior to coming to Quantico, Dr. Neimeyer He earned a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University, and served for twenty years as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was the former Dean of Academics at the Naval War College and Forrest Sherman Chair of Public Diplomacy in Newport, Rhode Island, and has taught at the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Maryland, and Georgetown. Dr. Neimeyer has authored a variety of history and national security affairs articles and has published the widely acclaimed monograph, America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army, 1775 – 1783, by the New York University Press in 1996. He is also the author of a second monograph, The Revolutionary War, (Greenwood Press, 2007) along with numerous articles on Marine Corps and American History.
Jim Piecuch is one of the premier historians of the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution. He worked thirteen years as a professional firefighter in Manchester, NH, before returning to college. After earning a BA in history from the University of New Hampshire-Manchester and an MA from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, he completed his Ph.D. in American history at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. He is currently Professor of History at Kennesaw State University. His extensive publications on the Revolutionary War include The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History (2006), Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians and Slaves in the Revolutionary South (2008), “Cool Deliberate Courage”: John Eager Howard in the American Revolution (2009), “The Blood Be Upon Your Head”: Tarleton and the Myth of Buford’s Massacre (2010), Cavalry in the American Revolution (2012) and with Gregory Massey, a collection of essays, General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South (2012).
For a calendar of Revolutionary War Week programming, please visit http://colonialcharleston.com/ or call (843) 722-9350.
(Photo Credit: CVB website)
-Submitted by Tidelines Editor