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Dear Reader:
I wanted to provide a few updates that may be of interest to some of you.
— You’ll find information about the 2025 Conrad M. Hall Symposium for Virginia History here. The focus will be on the important role Virginia played in the Revolution. It will be held October 4 at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, 428 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, VA, and include several Revolutionary War-related presentations.
— Here’s a link to a notice about the upcoming conference sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District, “Forging Independence: The Revolutionary War’s Early Years,” to be held at the DoubleTree, Front Royal, VA on February 20-021, 2026.
— Any Rev War buff (nerd, geek, nut, maven, etc.) worthy of that species knows about Rick Atkinson’s latest creation, The Fate of the Day (the second volume in his trilogy on the War of Independence), but I’d like to call attention—for the benefit of anyone who’s unfamiliar with it—to John Maass’s new book, From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War (Osprey Publishing, 2025). The author of several books on American military history, John is a historian with the National Museum of the United States Army and holds a doctorate in early American history from The Ohio State University. I wrote the following about his latest work on the book’s Amazon page:
Thanks to historian John Maass, readers—in particular, aficionados of our Revolutionary struggle specifically or military history more generally—can now feast on a splendid analysis of the most pivotal military events in the War of Independence: the Continental Army’s victories at Trenton and Princeton, the Saratoga campaign, the Valley Forge encampment, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, and the siege of Yorktown. In this concise and lucid chronicle, the author lays out an illuminating and persuasive case for why and how these developments profoundly altered the course of the conflict and paved the road to victory for the Patriot insurgency. A book like this merits a wide readership, especially during our collective immersion in the semiquincentennial of American independence. John Maass’s newest literary effort is highly recommended.
— The most recent blurb received for my new book, Winning the Ten Crucial Days, is as follows:
“As a professional historian with a deep interest in regional history, I found that David Price’s book transports readers, both professional historians and the interested non-academic, to the 1776-77 winter action in the Delaware River Valley. The contours of the region, in terms of the topography, the people, and the major characters, are all brought to life. Price captures the dynamic of the ‘Ten Crucial Days’ as if he were an eyewitness relating those events.”
– JAMES E. HIGGINS, Ph.D., Executive Director, Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum/Lehigh County Historical Society and author of The Health of the Commonwealth
Happy reading!