AMERICAN REVOLUTION ROUND TABLE OF PHILADELPHIA



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Contents:

About Us
President's Message
Future Meetings and Speakers
Contact Information
Past Speakers
Philadelphia Area's Historic Organizations
Philadelphia Area's Revolutionary War Living History and Reenactments
Philadelphia Area's Revolutionary War Reenactors
American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia's Thomas Fleming Book Award Winners.
Benjamin Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award Winners.
Links to the Eighteenth Century.


RESEARCH ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

New items: Searchable On-Line American Revolution Databases.


About the Round Table

The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia brings together a diverse group of people united by a common interest in the American Revolutionary Era. We meet on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from September through June at Brittigham's Irish Pub and Restaurant, 640 East Germantown Pike, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. (610)828-7351. It was built in 1743. Parking behind the building and across the street if necessary.

The meeting starts promptly at 7:15 p.m. A group of members and most of the ARRTOP Advisory Board will meet for dinner at 5:30 p.m. at Brittingham's and we share dinner with our guest speaker and you are cordially invited.

For directions to Brittingham's click here.

Meetings are free and open to the public!!! The main event of the evening is a speaker on some aspect of the American Revolutionary Era.

If you like our programs and/or web site and wish to join our organization, membership dues are a very low $15.00 per year. It helps to pay our expenses. We need your support to continue the quality of our programs.Click here for an application. You can join at a meeting or complete the form and make checks or money orders out to ARRTOP and sent to Joe Bilotti, 300 Ernest Way, Apt. 329 Cedar Views, Pine Valley, PA 19111. 19152.

The American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia Inc. (ARRTOP) is a 501(c)(3) organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to us are deductibile under section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code. We are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code. We are classified as as a public charity. If you wish to help support ARRTOP in its mission, contact or send you checks to our treasurer Joe Bilotti, 1823 Arthur Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 19152. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

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President's Message



The goal of ARRTOP is to be the premier forum and organization in the Philadelphia region concerning Revolutionary War era interests. Since its inception, ARRTOP has touched upon and been active in all the aspects described in its mission statement.

ARRTOP has committed itself to bringing to you and to the public at large a wide variety of speakers, authors, researchers, and historians to share with us their research into the period of American history that has influenced this country more than any other aspect of this nation's experience. I believe that we provide the highest quality of speakers on the American Revolution in the Philadelphia area.

ARRTOP is firmly committed to the goal of Revolutionary War era historical preservation and heritage.

See you at the next meeting.

I respectfully remain your humble and most obedient servant,

John A. Nagy

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Contact Information

E-mail address:
Contact John A. Nagy, President at paperman@hotmail.com/


Treasurer:
Contact Joe Bilotti, 300 Ernest Way, Apt. 329 Cedar Views, Pine Valley, PA 19111.


Webmaster:
Contact John A. Nagy at paperman@hotmail.com

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Future Meetings

* Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - Dennis Cooke will speak about "More Trifling Events During the Occupation of Philadelphia"

* Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - John Roma will speak on his book " 'Twas Seeding Time: A Mennonite view of the American Revolution." It will be a local picture of events in the neighborhood of the Perkiomen and Skippack Creeks, 1777-1778.

* Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - Michael S. Adelberg will speak on his book The American Revolution in Monmouth County [NJ]: The Theatre of Spoil and Destruction.

* Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - Bill Ochester will appear as Dr. Benjamin Franklin. http://www.bfranklinprinter.com/

* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - Richard Borkow will speak on his book George Washington's Westchester Gamble: The Encampment on the Hudson and the Trapping of Cornwallis

* Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - Christian McBurney will speak on his book The Rhode Island Campaign.

2012-2013 Season:

* Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - Joseph Becton will speak on Fighting for Freedom: Choosing Sides Africans in The American Revolution

To see the other speakers on our schedule click here.

Thomas Fleming Book Award

2008

It is official the committee headed by Bob Heffner has awarded the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia's Thomas Fleming Book Award for the best book on the American Revolution Era published in 2008 to

With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783
by Matthew H. Spring


Thomas Fleming Book Award

2009

Nominations for the 2010 and 2011 award are open.

Minimum criteria for consideration is that the book is non-fiction, published during the year under consideration, subject must be the American Revolution Era, initially published in English, index, have a bibliography of sources, and have either footnotes or endnotes documenting its sources. We believe that statements in the book must be verifiable. It must have author's content. A book that is edited copies of the letters of a historical figure are not acceptable. Such as publishing the letters of George Washington is not acceptable. Collaborated books (authored by more than two person) are not eligible. Reference to primary source documents is a plus. Leaps of faith, unsubstantiated conjecture, unless specifically identified to the reader will detract from a book. New research is a major plus.

Nominations are open to commercial (not self) publishers and members of the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia. If you have a book that you think should be considered please advise Contact John A. Nagy at paperman@hotmail.com

The following books have been nominated for 2009:

Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment" by Nancy K. Loane

Invisible Ink Spycraft of the American Revolution by John A. Nagy

Long, Obstinate, and Bloody by By Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard

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