2023 - 2024 Speaker Series

 

Presented in Partnership with the Bethlehem Public Library

 

BHA is now collaborating with the Bethlehem Public Library to sponsoring our Speaker Series Program.  All take place on from 7:00 to 8:45 p.m. in the library’s large Community Room.  Registration is recommended as there is a capacity limit. 

 

Call the library at 518-439-9314 or register using this website Bethlehem.LibraryCalendar.com

 

The programs will also be announced in the library's Footnotes newsletter every 2 months.

 

The programs are open to the public.

 

Click here for pictures of previous programs

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Up Coming Programs

 

April 17, 2024, Robb Haberman:

Writing in the Service of His Country: The Revolutionary War Memoir of James Selkirk

 

For his talk Writing in Service of His Country: The Revolutionary War Memoir of James Selkirk Robb Haberman speaks on the experiences of Selkirk before, during, and after the conflict against Britain. Haberman discusses the memoir alongside a local patriot association, a regimental orderly book, and Selkirk’s own discharge papers. He demonstrates how these varied primary sources illuminate the political affiliations, wartime duties, and post-war hardships of Selkirk.

 

Robb Haberman is a historian of early America who received his doctorate in history from the University of Connecticut. He currently serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Fordham University. His work on politics, media, and memory in Revolutionary-era New York has appeared in several print and online publications, including the peer-reviewed journals New York History, Early American Studies, and American Periodicals.

 

For his current research project, Robb is editing the revolutionary-war manuscript memoir of James Selkirk in collaboration with Susan Leath and the Selkirk family. A Scottish immigrant, Selkirk served six-and-a-half years as a sergeant in the Continental Army and settled in Bethlehem following the conflict. Seeking to produce a scholarly edition of Selkirk’s memoir, Robb has received fellowships to research Selkirk’s life from the American Philosophical Society and the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

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