The Smithsonian Associates and the International Spy museum cohosted this 80 minute event. Good to see all of you here. I am a historian and curator. Some of you i know, some of you i am meeting for the first time. I would like to welcome all of you to the spy museum and spy seminar, where we focus on the spies of the American Revolution. The first two weeks centered on wellknown personalities. You have the , which has an entire tv show dedicated to it now, and ben franklin is of course ben franklin. Next week, we will look at the most infamous spy in u. S. History, Benedict Arnold. The relative obscurity of James Lafayette is what will make this morning so interesting. He is someone we should know more about. His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egn
His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egner gruber will help us to understand who this enigmatic man really is. She is a curator at jamestownyorktown foundation and a member of the team responsible for research and development of exhibits in the forthcoming American Revolution museum at yorktown, which i will tell you more about today. Between 20092014, she worked at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation where she developed the research and production of the field trip series. She served as a library fellow, and most recently was content specialist in the digital history center. Although she is a museum professional interested in early american consumerism economy, material culture, and how these aspects of Colonial Life translated during the American
His impact on World History is well known. Historians are just now beginning to piece it together to find out new information and understand his impact on the revolution and figure out how he sits among the great heroes and villains of american intelligence history. Katherine egner gruber will help us to understand who this enigmatic man really is. She is a curator at jamestownyorktown foundation and a member of the team responsible for research and development of exhibits in the forthcoming American Revolution museum at yorktown, which i will tell you more about today. Between 20092014, she worked at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation where she developed the research and production of the field trip series. She served as a library fellow, and most recently was content specialist in the digital history center. Although she is a museum professional interested in early american consumerism economy, material culture, and how these aspects of Colonial Life translated during the American
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