05/21/2026
Local history buffs. Here is a webinar you may be interested in signing up for and attending online.
Join us on Wednesday, June 17, at 12 PM, for The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, a free NYS Library webinar that tells the story of the American Revolution from inside the home.
Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British forces occupied every major city, invading the most private of spaces: the home. Building on a stunning wealth of primary sources, Lauren Duval vividly captures daily life during the Revolution through the eyes and ears of those who intimately experienced it, showing how men and women of all races, statuses, and states of freedom understood its implications for their lives, families, and the nascent American Republic.
Presenter Lauren Duval is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma and a historian of early North America specializing in women’s and gender history, family history, and the era of the American Revolution. She is the author of The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence, which was awarded the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award for a First Book.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/16601059
