Dr. Denver Brunsman, Assistant Professor of History, Wayne State University, will present “Revolutionary Detroit: The Making of a British Loyalist Stronghold” on Thursday, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Fort Meigs visitor center. The presentation is free and open to the public.
In 2009, Dr. Brunsman led a community service learning project on the history of Detroit during the American revolutionary era. The project resulted in a publication, Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805 (Detroit: Detroit Historical Society, 2009). For his presentation, Dr. Brunsman will discuss both the project and the experience of Detroit as a British loyalist stronghold during the revolutionary era.
Dr. Brunsman received his PhD from Princeton University in 2004 and an M.A. from the same institution in 2000. He has written and presented extensively on 18th and early 19th century topics. Among Dr. Brunsman's works are "Everyday Escapes: The Art of Evading the British Press Gang”; "American Colonies: Virginia Company," a chapter in The Reader's Guide to British History; and the soon to be published "Impressment" and "Naval Desertion," in The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Warfare to 1775 and” The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.”
The presentation will be held at Fort Meigs in the Visitor Center located at 29100 West River Road in Perrysburg, Ohio on Thursday, February 17th at 7:30 PM. The program is sponsored by the Anderton Bentley Fund in memory of Christopher Perky, who served at Fort Meigs during the War of 1812. For more information on this and all of the events at Fort Meigs call 800-283-8916 or visit us on-line at www.fortmeigs.org or www.ohiohistory.org
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