The Radicalism of the Revolution, preceded by HVHS Annual Meeting

Location: The WC Park Museum and Visitors' Center will NOT be ready. The Meeting and talk will be held at Titusville Presbyterian Church, 48 River Drive, Titusville, NJ 08560

 2pm ~ Hopewell Valley Historical Society Annual Meeting.

Program includes Welcome by the President, Financial Report, and bestowing of awards.

 3pm ~ The Radicalism of the Revolution a talk given by Dr. Andrew Shankman and David Niescior.

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​Andrew Shankman is a historian of early modern England, colonial North America, and the American Revolution and Early American Republic.  He is the author of Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding and Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, and the editor of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic, and The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent as well as over 20 essays on early North American and early United States history. Dr. Shankman is President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the former editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early modern England, the British Empire, and colonial North America and the United States at Rutgers University-Camden.

 David Niescior is a former student of Dr. Shankman. He studied at Rutgers, University-Camden between 2008-2015, earning his BA in History and MA in American History. He has presented his work, both written and otherwise, at Historic Deerfield, for The Colonial Dames of America, the Museum of the American Revolution, and the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, among others. ​Mr. Niescior is a tailor by trade, an historian of early America by training, and the Senior Historian at the Old Barracks Museum in Trenton, NJ by profession. He has practiced the trade of 18th century tailoring since 2010, and in recent years has branched into practicing elements of carpentry, joinery, turning, shoemaking, blacksmithing, and hatting. Some of his recent projects include six suits of regimental clothing of the Royal Regiment as they may have appeared in 1760, a set of bench planes based on early originals and his shoemaking tools, including his bench. Find him on Instagram @davidthemechanick.