The American Revolution Round Table of New York

New York's Revolutionaries
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington (1761-1839), at the age of 16, rode alone through an April night, from her home in Putnam County, NY, to warn local militia of a British advance upon the Continental Army's supply depot in Danbury, CT.

Next Meeting

Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Time: 7:30 pm

Where: On-line via Zoom

Speaker: Jack D. Warren, Jr.

Subject: Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution

Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence. It tells the pivotal story of the courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom. Written for Americans intent on understanding our national origins, but also appropriate for teachers and secondary classrooms, Freedom argues that the American Revolution is the central event in our history: the turning point between our colonial origins and our national experience. This volume includes 167 full-color paintings, maps, illustrations, and photos—many of them seen only in historical institutions across the country.

The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history. This is the story of how Americans came to fight for their freedom and became a united people, with a shared history and national identity, and how a generation of founders expressed ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship: ideals that have shaped our history and will shape our future—and the future of the world.

Freedom: The Enduring Significance of the American Revolution

Jack D. Warren, Jr.

Jack D. Warren, Jr. is a historian and the editor-in-chief of The American Crisis, a journal of history and commentary. He is also the author of The Presidency of George Washington, and America's First Veterans A lifelong advocate of battlefield preservation, Warren is a member of the Civil War Trust and a founding member of the American Revolution Institute. He formerly served on the faculty of the University of Virginia, where he was an editor of The Papers of George Washington, and was the executive director of The Society of the Cincinnati, which promotes knowledge and appreciation of American independence. A native of Washington, D.C., Warren lives with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.

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About ARRT-NY Meetings

The Coffee House

For ten years (2011-2020), ARRT-NY met at The Coffee House in mid-Manhattan which, notwithstanding its name, is a private business-persons' luncheon club that has been in existence over a century. It was dedicated exclusively to ARRT-NY for five evenings each year. Unfortunately, that situation has not survived, and ARRT-NY is searching for new arrangements for future social gatherings.

Take a look at our photo gallery of a 2016 meeting!

ARRT-NY's Recent Featured Speakers

April 2025 William Hogeland The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding
February 2025 Kevin J. Weddle The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
December 2024 Don N. Hagist Waging War in America 1775-1783: Operational Challenges of Five Armies During the American Revolution
October 2024 Robert P. Watson George Washington’s Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation
June 2024 Jack Kelly God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
April 2024 Brooke Barbier King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
February 2024 Richard Melnick Long Island City in 1776: The Revolution Comes to Queens
December 2023 Ricardo A. Herrea Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
October 2023 George Kotlik East Florida in the Revolutionary Era, 1763-1785
June 2023 Christopher F. Minty Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City
April 2023 Benjamin L. Carp The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution
February 2023 Ann M. Becker Smallpox in Washington's Army: Disease, War, and Society During the Revolutionary War
December 2022 John Buchanan The Battle of Musgrove's Mill, 1780
October 2022 Andrew Porwancher The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
June 2022 Christian McBurney Dark Voyage: An American Privateer's War on Britain's African Slave Trade
April 2022 Per-Olof Hasselgren Revolutionary Surgeons: Patriots and Loyalists on the Cutting Edge
February 2022 Michael C. Harris Germantown: A Military History of the Battle for Philadelphia, October 4, 1777
December 2021 Steven Elliott Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington's Army during the American Revolution
October 2021 Norman Desmarais The Road to Yorktown: The French Campaigns in the American Revolution, 1780-1783
June 2021 John Buchanan "The Southern Campaign"
April 2021 Mark Edward Lender "The Middle Atlantic Campaign"
February 2021 Dr. Glenn Williams "The Northern Campaign"
December 2020 Christian McBurney George Washington's Nemesis: The Outrageous Treason and Unfair Court-Martial of Major General Charles Lee during the Revolutionary War
October 2020 John Gilbert McCurdy Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution
February 2020 Michael C. Harris
Jonathan Carriel
Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777
"The Battle of Golden Hill, New York City, January 19, 1770"
December 2019 D.A.B. Ronald The Life of John André: The Redcoat Who Turned Benedict Arnold
October 2019 Mary Stockwell Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America
June 2019 Kevin Gutzman Thomas Jefferson - Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
April 2019 John Buchanan The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution
February 2019 Christian Di Spigna Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero
December 2018 Mark Edward Lender Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle
October 2018 Dr. Joanne Grasso George Washington's 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island
June 2018 Christian McBurney Abductions in the American Revolution: Attempts to Kidnap George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Other Military and Civilian Leaders
April 2018 Brooke Barbier Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire
February 2018 Peter Lubrecht New Jersey Hessians: Truth and Lore in the American Revolution
December 2017 Robert Ernest Hubbard Major General Israel Putnam: Hero of the American Revolution
October 2017 Tom Shachtman How the French Saved America: Soldiers, Sailors, Diplomats, Louis XVI and the Success of a Revolution
June 2017 Arthur Lefkowitz Eyewitness Images from the American Revolution
April 2017 George C. Daughan Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence
February 2017 Bruce M. Venter The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action that Saved America
December 2016 John Oller The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
October 2016 Dr. Joanne Grasso The American Revolution on Long Island
June 2016 Todd W. Braisted Grand Forage 1778: The Battleground Around New York City
April 2016 Patrick K. O'Donnell Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution
February 2016 John Steele Gordon Washington's Monument: And the Fascinating History of the Obelisk
December 2015 Kathleen DuVal Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
October 2015 Christian McBurney Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott
June 2015 Jonathan Carriel "The Stamp Act Crisis in New York City, 1765"
April 2015 Thomas Fleming The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
February 2015 Tim McGrath Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
December 2014 Richard Welch General Washington's Commando: Benjamin Tallmadge in the Revolutionary War
October 2014 David Young "Cliveden and the Battle of Germantown"
June 2014 Maureen Taylor The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation
April 2014 Phillip Papas Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee
February 2014 Andréw O'Shaughnessy The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
December 2013 Richard Radune Sound Rising: Long Island Sound in the Forefront of America's Struggle for Independence
October 2013 John Nagy Benjamin Church: Spy
June 2013 Kevin Phillips 1775: A Good Year for Revolution
April 2013 Stephen H. Case Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen
February 2013 Christian McBurney The Rhode Island Campaign
December 2012 Todd Andrlik Reporting the Revolutionary War
October 2012 Arthur Lefkowitz Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes
June 2012 Thomas Schaeper Edward Bancroft: Scientist, Author, Spy
April 2012 Joseph Smith "Philip Freneau"
February 2012 Richard Berleth Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
December 2011 Maya Jasanoff Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
October 2011 John Nagy Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution