Spot where general George Washington and the Continental Army crossed on christmas night in 1776. Well see the reenactment and talk with several participants. [ drumroll ] sdas we are doing a reenact mint of George Washingtons crossing on christmas night 1776. What happened here is actually one of the most unexpected and daring revolution the story is washington they encamped in several locations around this area, including the to which aye kneely house, which is part of our park, and things are pretty did the paragraph, and the patriot cause. The continental affirm really needed a win. Washington was aflay that the british were going to invade philadelphia and take over the capital. He really knew what he needed was a bold action. After meek with his war council, they made the decision on christmas night they would brought the delaware and attack the outpost at trenton. A snowstorm started touch terrible, snow and hail, a pretty bad noreaster, and all of these men, 2400 in all, had to
Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t
Proclaims this has it all, love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to describe the life story of richard st. George, the exhibitions starring figure, a wealthy irishman who finds himself on the wrong side of two revolutions in america and ireland, as part dickens with a spritz of yankee doodle. There is no doubt that richard st. Georges story is a cracking good tale, but the story reveals so much more than love my death, and psychodrama. In st. George, we see the complex entanglements of social, cultural, political identities of the time and the connectedness of the American Revolution. In st. George, we find a story of the age of revolution and a story of today, of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But in st. George, we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two relatively obscure paintings, and a mystery that ended with this deal for and moving exhibition featuring 22 works of art depicting or comm
The book in the name of god the khomeini decade, how much influence do you think the iran relationship with this country has had on this country in the last 10 years . Robin oh, i think its had not only an Immediate Impact of the trauma of the hostage ordeal the impact of the confrontation between the u. S. And iran in the persian gulf, the shooting down of the iranian aircraft i think its had a much broader impact, and that is it, along with vietnam, proved that the United States was not invincible; was, indeed, very vulnerable, and that third world powers could not only stand up to us and defy us, but occasionally could even defeat us. And so i think its had an impact on our National Psyche and on our policymaking apparatus. Brian did they laugh at us behind the scenes over there . Robin no. I think theyve always been a little bit frightened of us. Theyve always given us credit for having more power and more planning, more conspiracies than we deserve. I think that they were proud an
Anne freeman talks about her lifelong research on hamilton hafment. Owe she talks about how she became interested in this founding father and how she used his writings to understand what motivated him. The museum of the American Revolution hosted this talk. It is about an hour. Forgive me. I have not only grown gray, but almost blind in the service of this museum. [laughter] well, it is incredibly exciting to welcome my friend of nearly 30 years now, joanne freeman, who i got to know running the streets of charlottesville when we were both graduate students. Apparent at the time. There were a lot of smart people, but joanne was already head and shoulders above her colleagues, just head a an incredibly sharp mind. Was already talking about this founding father guy, Alexander Hamilton. The rest of us were come on, that is sort of boring, but a lot of things about the work of joanne. R first book, public lish in 2001, does this sound familiar . A rousing discourse on the utopian republic.