Twenty-First Annual Seminar on the American Revolution

This annual premier conference focused on the military, political, social, and material culture of the American Revolution regularly features scholars from across North America and beyond.

Attendees can participate in person or join the conference from home via the Fort Ticonderoga Center for Digital History.

Seminar Schedule (subject to change) 

Friday, September 19, 2025

8:00am-4:00pm “The Battle of Valcour Island: Benedict Arnold Defends Lake Champlain— see below for more details about this tour offered by America’s History LLC.
5:30-6:30pm Opening Reception—Join seminar faculty and museum staff at an opening reception at the Pavilion and King’s Garden with light refreshments and cash bar.
7:00-7:45pm Between the Wars: Ticonderoga at Peace, Part 2—Fort Ticonderoga Curator Dr. Matthew Keagle.

Saturday, September 20, 2025

9:00am Welcome—Beth Hill, President and CEO, Fort Ticonderoga.
9:15-9:45am Alexander Baldwin’s Independent Company of Albany Rangers—Brian Gerring, Independent Historian and past Edward W. Pell Graduate Fellow at Fort Ticonderoga.
10:00-10:30am The Yeomanry of the New England Officer Corps of the Continental Army in the Northern Department—Paul Elmore, Independent Historian
10:45-11:15am Brigadier General Richard Montgomery: “the citizen moved by the melancholy of necessity of taking up arms for the public safety”—Michael Gabriel, Kutztown University
11:30am-1:45pm Lunch Break (Box lunch from America’s Fort Café included).
1:00-1:30pm Book Signing at the Museum Store in the Log House.
2:00-2:30pm Colonel Elisha Porter—Haley Marie Wrye, Historic Trappe.
2:45-3:15pm “A brave good officer without fortune and desirous of being in service”: John Armstrong Making a Name as Citizen-Soldier—Zachary Distel, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
3:30-4:00pm Bayou Patriots? Louisiana Milita and the American Revolution—Rhett Breerwood, Louisiana National Guard Historian
5:00pm Dinner at America’s Fort Café (pre-registration only).

 Sunday, September 21, 2025

9:00-9:30am George Washington’s Relations with French Officers, 1781: Overcoming Friction to Secure Victory at Yorktown—William Ferraro, Washington Papers at the University of Virginia
9:45-10:15am Who were the Hessians buried at Red Bank?—Robert Selig, Independent Historian
10:30-11:00am 9 Days in July: The Conference that Led to the Treaty of Watertown—Robert Smith-MacDonald, Mansfield (Massachusetts) Public School