The Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park will present The American Revolutionary War 250 Conference on from May 30th through June 1, 2025. The event will feature a talk by Pulitzer Prize Winner Rick Atkinson, “The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780.”
Additional speakers and topics include:
Major General Jason Q. Bohm USMC (Ret) – The Birth and Early Operations of the Marine Corps: 250 Years in the Making
Alexander R. Cain – We Stood Our Ground: 250th of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
Abby Chandler – Choosing Sides: North Carolina’s Regulator Rebellion and the American Revolution
Gary Ecelbarger – The Mammoth of Monmouth: George Washington’s 1778 Campaign in New Jersey
Michael P. Gabriel – Richard Montgomery and the Other Invasion of Canada
Shirley L. Green – Integrating Enslaved and Free: Rhode Island’s Revolutionary Black Regiment
Don N. Hagist – Marching from Peace into War: British Soldiers in 1775 America
Patrick H. Hannum – The Virginia Campaign of 1775-76: Kemp’s Landing & Great Bridge
Wayne Lenig – The Mohawk Valley’s Committee of Safety in 1775
James L. Nelson – Bunker Hill: The First Battle of the American Revolution
Eric H. Schnitzer – Breaking Convention: How a Fussy Detail about British Uniforms Doomed Burgoyne’s Army to Captivity
The James F. Morrison Mohawk Valley Resident Historian – William P. Tatum III, Ph.D. – “To Quell, Suppress, and Bring Them to Reason by Force:” Combatting the Loyalist Threat in New York during 1775
Bruce M. Venter – “It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones”: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys Take Fort Ticonderoga
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