Upcoming
January 24, 2026: Pequot Library, Southport, CT.
January 29, 2026: American Antiquarian Society, 7pm (remote).
February 12, 2026: Tryon Palace, New Bern, NC.
February 19, 2026: CSU-Chico (remote), 8:30pm ET.
February 21, 2026: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN.
February 25, 2026: New Haven Museum, New Haven, CT.
February 26, 2026: Tryon Palace, New Bern, NC.
March 12, 2026: Darien Library, Darien, CT.
March 17: US Court of Appeals First Circuit Judges Conference, Portland, ME. (private event)
March 19, 2026: Old Sturbridge Village (remote).
April 9, 2026: Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX.
May 18, 2026: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
Past Events
November 10, 2025: Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA, 6pm.
October 19, 2025: Ridgefield Library, Ridgefield, CT, 2pm.
August 12, 2025: “2025 George Washington Book Prize Finalists,” Mount Vernon. [broadcast live on C-SPAN]
June 12, 2025: Newport Historical Society, Newport, RI.
April 29 and May 6, 2025: “Making the Declaration Relevant at 250,” webinar, CT Council for the Social Studies.
April 12, 2025: “Concord and the Popular Memory of the Revolution,” 1775: A Society on the Brink of Revolution and War, Concord Museum, Concord, MA. [broadcast on C-SPAN2]
April 9, 2025: Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA.
April 5, 2025: Concord Free Public Library, Concord, MA, 2pm.
March 28, 2025: Mount Vernon Book Club, remote, 7pm.
March 21, 2025: Keynote talk, “The Many Lives of the Declaration of Independence,” Shaping a Commemoration Rooted in Belonging, America250 CT, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
January 23, 2025: Read the Revolution Speaker Series, Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, PA.
November 22, 2024: William V. Coombs American History Lecture, Miami University, Hamilton, OH.
November 19, 2024: “Why We Remember the American Revolution,” Eastern Washington University History Department (via ZOOM).
November 14, 2024: “Revolutionary Art,” Yale University Art Gallery, hosted by Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, New Haven, CT.
November 5, 2024: Revolution250, livestream and podcast.
October 24, 2024: David Center Lecture, Washington’s Crossing Historical Park, Washington Crossing, PA.
October 23, 2024: Lunch at the Library, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA.
October 2, 2024: “Ford Evening Book Talk: The Memory of ’76,” Mount Vernon, VA.
September 3, 2024: “Author’s Talk—The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History,” Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, D.C.
August 15, 2024: Fireside Chat with Michael D. Hattem, Library Company of Philadelphia (virtual), Philadelphia, PA.
July 30, 2024: Poor Richard’s Book Club (via ZOOM).
July 3, 2024: Repeating History, WCNY radio.
July 30, 2024: Poor Richard’s Book Club (via ZOOM).
August 29, 2022: American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia.
July 7, 2021: “Ben’s Book Club: Past and Prologue by Michael D. Hattem,” Benjamin Franklin House.
April 29, 2021: Fireside Chat, The Library Company of Philadelphia.
April 22, 2021: “Past and Prologue: A Conversation with Michael D. Hattem,” Smith National Library at Mount Vernon.
April 1, 2021: “The American Revolution and the Creation of American History,” Fraunces Tavern® Museum.
January 27, 2021: “Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution — A Virtual Discussion with Michael D. Hattem,” David Center for the American Revolution, American Philosophical Society.
December 7, 2020: “How ‘Revisionist History’ Shaped the American Revolution,” hosted by Benjamin Carp, New-York Historical Society.
February 8, 2018: “The American Revolution and the Creation of American History,” Burkhardt Lecture, Knox College, Galesburg, IL.
October 22, 2018: “Teaching Benjamin Franklin in the Eighteenth Century,” Distinguished Keynote Speaker, plenary presentation, New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Conference, Rutgers University, Paramus, NJ.
May 17, 2018: “Historical Memory and the American Revolution,” a conversation with Joanne Freeman, “The Past in the Present: Conversations with Historians,” New-York Historical Society, New York, NY.
March 9, 2018: “The Colonial Past in the Early Republic,” CUNY Early American Republic Seminar, New York, NY.
January 17, 2017: “Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution,” guest conversation in “Alexander Hamilton’s America,” online teacher seminar, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
October 7, 2016: “JuntoCast Live!” Fall 2016 “Humanities in the Public Square” NEH Lecture Series, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
May 4, 2015: Chronicles: Stories from Early America, digital history project, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA.
January 30, 2014: “Solving a 239-Year Old Mystery about the Authorship of a Long-Lost Continental Congress Document,” “An Evening at the Morris-Jumel Mansion,” The Archivists’ Round Table of Metropolitan New York, New York, NY.
April 12, 2013: “Their history as a part of ours”: Some Thoughts on British Historical Memory in Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1750-1776,” CUNY Early American Republic Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.
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