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Tuesday, June 18th 10:30 AM Author Michael Tougias – A Storm Too Soon
Spellbinding, harrowing, and meticulously researched, A Storm Too Soon is a vivid account about the powerful collision between the forces of nature and the human will to survive. Author Michael J. Tougias, known for his fast-paced writing style and character-driven stories, tells this true saga in the present tense to give the reader a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat immediacy. A Storm Too Soon is Tougias at his masterful best and a heart-pounding narrative of survival, the power of the human spirit, and one of the most incredible rescues ever attempted. $3/Member $5/Non-Member
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Tuesday, June 25th 10:30 AM Amid a Warring World: American Foreign Relations, 1775 -1815
From the American Revolution through the War of 1812, the United States was a small power confronted by great powers hostile to one another and to the United States. According to historian Robert W. Smith, the question of American power lay at the heart of the debate over independence. By the end of the American Revolution, the moderates had won the argument move slowly and only with assured French assistance. But their victory masked the defects of the confederation until the diplomatic humiliations of the 1780s forced the United States to create a government that could properly harness American economic and military power. The controversy over the power of the United States to reshape a hostile world remains as central today. $3 Members/$5 Non-Members
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Tuesday, July 2nd 10:30 AM The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French and American Operation in the Revolutionary War
On July 29, 1778, a powerful French naval squadron sailed confidently to the entrance of Narragansett Bay. Its goal was to capture the British garrison at Newport, Rhode Island.The Rhode Island Campaign unravels one of the most complex and multi-faceted events of the war, one that combined land and sea strategies and featured controversial decisions on both sides. Christian McBurney has written the most authoritative book on this fascinating episode in American history. $3 Members/ $5 Non-Members
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Tuesday, July 16h 10:30 AM Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women & the Radical Men They Married
Nancy Rubin Stuart tells the story of Peggy Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flucker Knox, teenagers who defied their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold. Discover two women who defied expectations and struggled—publicly and privately—in a volatile political moment in early America. amidst romance, politics, spies, disappointments, heroic deeds, tragedies and personal triumphs.
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