Episode 4 of my podcast, Threshold to Valley Forge, is live! Check it out at Spotify at this link or click on the Spotify link below. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/sdiane/episodes/The-Continental-Army-and-the-New-Nation-In-Search-of-a-Way-Forward–Pt–1-e2utsm9 Happy listening! I wore my Eagles Super Bowl Championship hat and shirt while recording today to celebrate my home town team (always) winning the Super Bowl on Sunday Continue reading

See details on preordering my book, Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment, at 25% off through Feb. 28, the book’s official release date, at my publisher’s website, http://www.brooklinebooks.com. Click on this link for details: https://mailchi.mp/dbbcdist/brooklines-october-book-news-1344730?e=07a7d4855db Read more about my book at my website, http://www.thresholdtovalleyforge.com. Continue reading

Episode 3 of the Threshold to Valley Forge Podcast is now live! This episode continues the introduction to the book with a review of the five main themes of significant events during the Gulph Mills Encampment: 1) the problems arising from the British Army’s occupation of nearby Philadelphia, 2) where would George Washington and the Continue reading

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

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 book, The Threshold to Valley Forge: The Gulph Mills Encampment, was the discovery of this document pictured above, which was the first original document that I found that actually showed soldiers at Continue reading