Join us for a lecture with Dr. Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, which will situate the American Revolution in the broader geopolitical context of the era.

This lecture is part of a series presented in honor of America semiquincentennial in conjunction with the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College.

Doors Open at 6:00

Event Begins at 6:30

Reception to Follow.

Andrew O’Shaughnessy is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.  Between 2003 and 2022, he served as Vice President of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), and the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies.  He has also taught at Eton College and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where he was chair of the History department between 1998 and 2003. He is the author of several books including The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean, and The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University and, with Trevor Burnard, Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence. He is an editor of the Jeffersonian America series published by the University of Virginia Press. He holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Oxford University,