History Camp Discussions Archive
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Kathleen DuVal, PhD — Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, African Americans, American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Kathleen DuVal PhD, Loyalists, Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples, Slavery and Abolitionists, United States, US–Florida, Women
Ricardo A. Herrera, PhD — Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Army Forage, Continental Army, George Washington, Military History, Pennsylvania, Ricardo A. Herrera, United States, US–Pennsylvania, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Timothy B. Smith — The Iron Dice of Battle: Albert Sidney Johnston and the Civil War in the West
History Camp Discussions, 1800s, Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate Army, Military History, Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples, Timothy B. Smith, United States, US Civil War (1861–1865), US Western Frontier / Expansion
Claire Bellerjeau & Tiffany Yecke Brooks, PhD — Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Claire Bellerjeau, Espionage + Spy-Craft, Slavery and Abolitionists, Tiffany Yecke Brooks PhD, United States, US–New York, US–South Carolina
Susan Nagel, PhD — Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler, and the Rivalry for America’s Capital City
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, 1800s, Government, Post-American Revolutionary War / Founding (>1783), Susan Nagel PhD, United States, US Founding Fathers, US Presidents, US–New York, US–Washington DC
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, PhD — The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
History Camp Discussions, 1700s, American Colonial Era (1607–1776), American Revolutionary War (1776–1783), Continental Army, Lindsay M. Chervinsky PhD, Politics, Post-American Revolutionary War / Founding (>1783), United States, US Founding Fathers, US Presidents
About History Camp Author Discussions
Weekly History Camp Author Discussions use a lively, conversational approach to learn more about an interesting historical topic from a noted author. Past guests include David Blight, Tom Clavin, Charles Fishman, Allen Guelzo, Arthur Herman, Damien Lewis, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Thomas Ricks, Andrew Roberts, Stacy Schiff, A.J. Baime, and Amity Shlaes, among many others. In 2024, we had as our guests both Pulitzer Prize winners for Biography, Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo.
History Camp Author Discussions are free to all—no registration needed—and stream to our HistoryCamp.org/discussions page and to multiple social media platforms. After the broadcast, they live on forever in our archive at HistoryCamp.org/archive, each on a dedicated page with additional information about the author.
Topics cover all aspects of history. We do not include historical fiction and we do not cover modern politics. (For “modern,” we draw the line at the Nixon administration.) If a book includes modern history, we take our discussion up to that point and leave our guests to read more in the author’s book.
A project of the non-profit organization The Pursuit of History
History Camp Author Discussions were launched in 2020 and are a project of the The Pursuit of History, the non-profit organization that engages adults in conversation about history and connects them with historic sites in their communities and across the country through innovative in-person and online programming.
History Camp was founded in 2014 as an annual in-person event. History Camp Boston takes place every year in August at Suffolk University Law School, on the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston and directly across from the Old Granary Burying Ground. Authors are welcome to join us, including coming and presenting or getting a table and selling their book. More information is at HistoryCamp.org/boston.
Contact us
To recommend a book and author for History Camp Author Discussions, contact Lee Wright. We look forward to hearing from you.