Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania ~ www.GenPa.org ~ execdir@GenPa.orgEat, Drink, and Be Merry in QuakertownThe Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania invites you to an |
||
|
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 2207 Chestnut Street
|
|
|
|
|
Dr. Paul Newman will be presenting a slide presentation... "Agrarian Founders: Three "Rebellions"--Shays', Whiskey, and Fries'--That Shaped the United States" This slide illustrated presentation will compare the Shays Rebellion of 1786, the Whiskey Rebellion of
1794, and the Fries Rebellion of 1799. Dr. Newman contends that among the many similarities and
connections that the participants of each considered themselves to be a loyal opposition, but were
branded by the governments they protested to be traitors for reactionary political reasons. In the end, Dr. Paul Douglas Newman is Professor of Early American History at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown where he has taught for two decades. He is the author of Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); Pennsylvania History. |
||
MAP
|