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Category: "Colonial America"

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George Washington's Long Island Spy Ring

Elizabeth Kahn Kaplan, St. James
This colorful PowerPoint presentation reveals how Patriot spies gathered British military information, from Long Island to Manhattan, and delivered it to George Washington despite constant danger.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware": The Story Behind the Painting

Elizabeth Kahn Kaplan, St. James
This lecture provides an in-depth analysis of events culminating in Washington's pivotal victory at Trenton early in the morning of December 26, 1776, linked to Leutze's iconic painting.

Almost Forgotten U.S. Female Playwrights 1770-1860

Stanley A. Waren, New York
In the nation's early decades, a woman choosing a life in the theatre faced near-total loss of social acceptance and respect. Rediscover the American women playwrights who fought moral condemnation, societal ostracism, and male contempt to live the theatrical life.

The Muse of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

Nancy Rubin Stuart, East Sandwich
The dramatic story of Founding Mother Mary Otis Warren (1728-1814), America's first female playwright and historian, who wrote an eyewitness account of the Revolution.

The Land of Milk and Honey: From Henry Hudson to George Washington

Firth H. Fabend, Montclair
Contrast the Edenic beauty of the Hudson Valley when the early settlers discovered, it with the land as it was ravaged in the Revolution.

Joyful Traditions: How the Dutch Brought Us Santa, Presents and Treats

Peter G. Rose, South Salem
The life and history of the saint who became America's Santa Claus.

American Indians in the Time of Henry Hudson: The Munsee and Mahican (Mohican) Indians

Laurence M. Hauptman, New Paltz
Who were the people that Henry Hudson met along the river that bears his name? How did these Native Americans view him and what happened to them?

The Two Worlds of Major Mordecai Myers: A Jewish-American Hero

Neil Yetwin, Schenectady
Major Mordecai Myers was a Jewish merchant, soldier and politician who led parallel lives in New York’s Jewish and non-Jewish communities.

Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Firth H. Fabend, Montclair
In a presentation commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Firth Fabend has delighted audiences from there to the Dutch Consulate in Hong Kong, and back to Historic Hudson.

Cultural Pluralism in the Hudson Valley, c. 1750

Firth H. Fabend, Montclair
Many cultures competed for identity in the eighteenth-century Hudson Valley. Historian Firth Fabend describes the glue that allowed them to cooperate and find common ground.

The Gardens of New Netherland: Dutch Gardening in the New World

Firth H. Fabend, Montclair
The gardens of the Dutch colony of New Netherland were modeled on the royal gardens in the Netherlands. Firth Fabend illustrates with colorful slides from both sides of the Atlantic.

In the Good Old Colony Days: Songs of Early America

Linda Russell, New York
Balladeer Linda Russell presents a look at the 18th century America through ballads, broadsides, love songs, marches, drinking songs and dance tunes.

Remember the Ladies: A History of American Women in Song

Linda Russell, New York
Accompanying herself on mountain and hammered dulcimers and guitar, Linda Russell explores the images of 18th and 19th century American women as reflected in the popular song of the day.

Traveling the New York City African American Experience 1623-1830

Sherrill D. Wilson, New City
African enslavement and freedom in early 1600's-1830's in New York City is the focus of this illustrated presentation.

'The Removal of Our Colour Population': Liberia and the American Colonization Society

Ron Soodalter, South Salem
In the early 1800s, our greatest statesmen met in Washington to make a vital decision: how to rid the country of its black population.

The Wild, Wild East: New York's Drama of Westward Expansion

Robert Spiegelman, New York
America's first "Wild West" was New York's frontier. This multimedia lecture illuminates the fateful crossroads where settler dreams meet native lifeways, at the heart of Westward Expansion.

New York's Missing Link: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, Then and Now

Robert Spiegelman, New York
Revolutionary New York's epic Indian War has the most official state historical markers, but is otherwise barely remembered. This multimedia lecture shows why...

Dutch Influence on the American Kitchen and Life

Peter G. Rose, South Salem
A discussion of Dutch colonial foodways, which still influence America's kitchen today.

The Forgotten Holidays

Peter G. Rose, South Salem
This presentation explores the celebrations and customs of the 17th century Dutch settlers and their descendants, which have had a lasting impact on American life.

Thomas Paine and the Flame of Revolution

J. Ward Regan, New York
The lecture recounts the life and writings of Thomas Paine in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Starting with Common Sense and The Crisis Papers, the talk focuses on Paine's role in the American Revolution and the creation of an "American" political ideology.

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