American Revolution Lecture Series: Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson/Marquis de Lafayette

American Revolution Lecture Series:
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations
Speaker: Tom Chaffin, Award-Winning Author and Historian
Steeped in primary sources, Revolutionary Brothers casts fresh light on the remarkable, often complicated, friendship between two extraordinary men. Join us as author Tom Chaffin explores the intimate bond linking Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette, and how over the course of four decades, their friendship played a key role in the making of two revolutions-and two nations. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Award-winning author and historian Tom Chaffin has taught US history and writing at various universities, and his articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Oxford American, and other publications. He was a frequent contributor to the New York Times’ acclaimed “Disunion” series on the American Civil War.
Chaffin’s other books include Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World; Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire; Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah; The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy; and Giant’s Causeway: Frederick Douglass’s Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary.