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Today: A New Stamp, My New Podcast
Today, the US Postal Service launched a stamp in honor of the great Phillis Wheatly, my shero, the first African American woman to publish a book, hers being a book of poetry. I take this occasion to launch my new podcast—What Would You Do For Democracy?—the Evolution of the Revolution, which you will find next Continue reading
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Slavery happened, whether you take down exhibits about it or not
Slavery happened, whether public spaces acknowledge it or not. Continue reading
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Fabulous Gulph Mills Encampment Monument Rededication Ceremony, 12/16
Rededication Ceremony of the Gulph Mills Encampment Monument Continue reading
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Day 5, Dec. 17, 1777 — Gen. Washington issues inspirational orders announcing the move to Valley Forge and prepares for nation’s first Thanksgiving celebration on Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills
Day 5 of the Gulph Mills Encampment, 12/17/1777: George Washington issues inspirational orders announcing the move to Valley Forge and prepares for the nation’s first Thanksgiving celebration. Continue reading
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Day 4, Gulph Mills Encampment: 12/16/1777–Tents arrive, British Soldiers captured, and Washington’s aides-de-camp indicate winter quarters decided.
Letter from George Washington’s aide-de-camp, John Fitzgerald, to Major John Clark, Jr., 12/16/1777, on the location of winter quarters for the Continental Army. [Library of Congress, George Washington Papers] On this Day 4 of the Gulph Mills Encampment, tents finally arrived to shield the soldiers from the weather. Up to this point, they made lean-to’s Continue reading
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Day 3, Dec. 15, 1777 — The Continental Army settles down at Rebel Hill and Gulph Mills
Strength Return showing soldiers at Gulph Mills, 12/15/1777; Brigadier General James Varnum’s Brigade Perhaps the greatest highlight of my research on my new award-winning book, Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment, was the discovery of this document pictured above, which was the first original document that I found that Continue reading
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Day 2, Dec. 14 — Hardship plagues the Continental Army at “the Gulph”
Orderly Book, Brigadier Gen. John Glover; 12/14/1777 from “the Gulph”; Library of Congress, Manuscript Room On December 14, 1777, the condition of the 11,000 members of the Continental Army at Gulph Mills and Rebel Hill was one of extreme hardship. The soldier’s tents were not to arrive for two more days. There was little, if Continue reading
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Dec. 12, 1777– A tired Continental Army begins its delayed march in to Gulph Mills
The Gulph Mills Encampment Chronicles: Dec. 12, 1777, the Continental Army begins its delayed march in to Gulph Mills. Continue reading
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The Continental Army plans its March into Gulph Mills, 12/10/1777
The Continental Army prepares to leave Whitemarsh to march into Gulph Mills, PA, 12/10/1777 Continue reading
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Listen to my podcast set the stage for the Gulph Mills Encampment
Podcast on the lead up to the Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment Continue reading
