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  • Orlando Ridout V Memorial Virtual Lecture – Maryland x Philadelphia: Artistic and Cultural Exchange in the Revolutionary Period

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    This virtual lecture with Alexandra Kirtley is an encore of her presentation from the 2025 Orlando Ridout V Memorial Lecture, presented in partnership by Historic Annapolis and the Maryland Historical Trust. The trade and exchange of raw materials, manufactured goods, skilled artisans, and elite/merchant class families in the late colonial and early national periods inextricably […]

  • Virtual Lecture – “To Feel the Happiness of Liberty”: Celebrating “Making” and 250 Years of African American Material Culture

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    The Founding Fathers’ cries for liberty from tyranny and oppression resonated with African Americans and were embraced by Black craftspeople, both free and enslaved. This talk highlights the profound contributions of African American material culture in the enduring pursuit of freedom. It serves as the culmination of the DAR Museum’s 2025 exhibition and the accompanying […]

  • Virtual Lecture – Silversmiths of Annapolis’s Golden Age

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    In this presentation, Mark Letzer explores the surviving silver from the workshops of Annapolis silversmiths in the 1700s. He not only illustrates the few surviving objects but illuminates the lives of these craftsmen not only as silversmiths but as members of a larger community. From taverns to social gatherings and their workshops, Letzer will share […]

  • Historian Karin Wulf, author of Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America.

    Virtual Lecture – Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America

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    Genealogy is everywhere– online, on screens, through organizations and conferences and more. But technologies aside, genealogy was everywhere in the 1700s, too. And while we may think of Americans living in the 1700s as largely the subject of genealogy research, they were active participants in what was a foundational interest and practice in their own […]

  • Portrait of Marcia Miller

    Virtual Lecture – Crafting the Golden Age: The Architectural World of Pre-Revolutionary Annapolis

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    Annapolis today stands as a testament to its many layers of history, with four centuries of buildings standing side by side throughout the city. In honor of preservation month, this talk highlights Annapolis’ architectural landscape in the 1700s.   The years prior to the Revolutionary War were a time of vast economic growth and opportunity encompassing all levels of […]

  • Portrait of Jim Gibb

    Virtual Lecture – Citizen Science in the Chesapeake on the Eve of the American Revolution

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    Beginning with the first European settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, until the 1775 battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, the Chesapeake region inspired interest among soldiers, merchants, and gentleman scholars in the Old World. Self-trained, amateur scientists like Thomas Jefferson fed that interest by committing their observations to paper. They sent letters and samples […]

  • A portrait of Dr. Richard Bell

    Virtual Lecture – A House Divided: The Tilghman Family and the American Revolution

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    This talk explores the story of Colonel Tench Tilghman—George Washington’s most trusted aide-de-camp—and his complicated ties to a family torn between loyalty to the Crown and the cause of independence. Discover how General George Washington himself navigated relationships with the Tilghmans—father, uncle, and brothers—on both sides of the war, and what their story reveals about unity, conflict, and […]

  • Book cover for When the Declaration of Independence Was News

    Virtual Lecture – When the Declaration of Independence Was News

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    Publishing for the 250th anniversary of the United States, Dr. Emily Sneff’s latest book, When the Declaration of Independence Was News, focuses on the nation’s founding document at the moment […]

  • Portrait of Glenn Campbell

    Virtual Lecture – Brothers in Arms: The Revolutionary Service of James and Edmund Brice

    During the Revolutionary War, James Brice served as Captain of the Annapolis city militia and County Lieutenant of the Anne Arundel County militia, positions that earned him the honorary title “Colonel.” But James wasn’t the only Colonel in the Brice family; his brother Edmund, an artist by training, was named a Lieutenant Colonel by Congress […]

  • A reenactor portraying a colonial-era printer

    Virtual Lecture – William and Dinah Nuthead: Maryland’s First Printers

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    Before Jonas and Anne Catharine Hoof Green, there was William and Dinah Nuthead, Maryland's first printing duo. William Nuthead was the first printer in Maryland and the first to operate a press in Virginia, establishing his business in St. Mary's City in 1685 after being barred from printing in Virginia by the colonial government. Following […]

  • Luxury colonial-era exotic foods on a table

    Virtual Lecture – Exotic Imports & Elegant Dining: Annapolis in Its Golden Age (1763–1774)

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    Step into the world of colonial luxury with food historian Joyce White in this engaging lecture exploring the remarkable imported foods that defined status and refinement in Annapolis during the 1700s. This convergence of wealth and robust trade, particularly during the city’s Golden Age, allowed the wealthiest residents access to an extraordinary array of global […]