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  • Lecture – “The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life” with Sophia Rosenfeld

    Washington Crossing Historic Park – Visitor Center & Historic Village 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

      This program is brought to the park in partnership with the American Philosophical Society and the David Center for the American Revolution. This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom.  Registration is required.  Log-in information provided with registration. Register Here Sophia Rosenfeld, will be discussing…

  • Lecture – “There is but one option for winter: Valley Forge”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

      This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom.  Registration is required.  Log-in information provided with registration. Register Here Why did the Continental Army encamp its main force at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778? What was the physical impact of the encampment?  How did the…

  • Lecture – “The Fate of the Day” An Evening with Rick Atkinson

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

      Acclaimed author Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of, The British Are Coming and The Liberation Trilogy, is returning to Washington Crossing Historic Park to discuss the 2nd entry in his ongoing Revolution Trilogy, *The Fate of the Day*. Atkinson’s newest work picks up the history of the Revolution where he left off,…

    $40 – $90

  • Lecture – “German Soldier, American Rebel: Christopher Ludwick’s Pursuits of Happiness in Revolutionary Pennsylvania”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

      This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom.  Registration is required.  Log-in information provided with registration. Register Here Hessian-born Christopher Ludwick was already a veteran of European warfare and an experienced mariner by the time he washed ashore in British Philadelphia in 1755. A…

  • Lecture – “Environmental Legacies: How the War of Independence Affected the Natural World in Predictable and Surprising Ways”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

    Join Juniata College Professor Dave Hsiung for his presentation of how the revolutionary war impacted the natural world. Dr. David Hsiung is the Dr. Charles R. and Shirley A. Knox Professor of History at Juniata College, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and his B.A. from Yale. A…

  • Lecture – “The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

      This is a hybrid event.  Visitors may attend in-person in the Visitor Center Auditorium or virtually on Zoom.  Registration is required.  Log-in information provided with registration.  Benjamin Carp will discuss his book The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution.   New York City, the strategic center of the…

  • David Center Lecture – “The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

      This Lecture is hosted at Washington Crossing Historic Park in partnership with the David Center at the American Philosophical Society   The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax…

  • Lecture – “Nobody Men: Neutrality, Loyalties, and Family in the American Revolution”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

    Washington Crossing Historic Park is pleased to partner with the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society to host a lecture by historian Travis Glasson on his new book, Nobody Men: Neutrality, Loyalties, and Family in the American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2025). While the American Revolution is often told as…

    Free

  • Lecture – “Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States”

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

    Washington Crossing Historic Park is pleased to host a lecture by Dr. Michelle Craig McDonald on her new book, “Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States”. In this fascinating talk, McDonald discusses her book exploring how coffee became central to daily life in colonial America and how coffeehouses emerged as lively hubs…

  • Lecture – “The Writing of the Declaration and What It Meant in 1776″

    Washington Crossing Historic Park 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA, United States

    Friends of Washington Crossing Park (FWCP) has been awarded a $15,000 grant through America250PA’s Lecture250 Series to support their upcoming presentation, “The Writing of the Declaration and What It Meant in 1776”. The funding will help Washington Crossing Historic Park offer this signature lecture and support the other free public lectures presented at the park throughout…