HVHS Annual Meeting and Program
Sun, Sep 13
|Location is TBD
Following our Annual Meeting at 2pm, join us at 3pm as Dr Andrew Shankman, author, SHEAR president, and Chair of the Rutgers-Camden History Department, along with David Niescior, Senior Historian at the Old Barracks Museum, speak about The Radicalism of the American Revolution. In person only.
Time & Location
Sep 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location is TBD
About the event
Location: We are keeping our fingers crossed that construction of the Washington Crossing State Park Museum and Visitor's Center will be completed in time. If not, we will publish an alternative venue either in the park or nearby.
2pm ~ Hopewell Valley Historical Society Annual Meeting.
Program includes Welcome by the President, Financial Report, and bestowing of awards.
3pm ~ The Radicalism of the Revolution
Andrew Shankman is a historian of early modern England, colonial North America, and the American Revolution and Early American Republic. He is the author of Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding and Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, and the editor of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic, and The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent as well as over 20 essays on early North American and early United States history.
Dr. Shankman is President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the former editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early modern England, the British Empire, and colonial North America and the United States at Rutgers University-Camden.
David Niescior is a former student of Dr. Shankman. He studied at Rutgers, University-Camden between 2008-2015, earning his BA in History and MA in American History. He has presented his work, both written and otherwise, at Historic Deerfield, for The Colonial Dames of America, the Museum of the American Revolution, and the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, among others.
Mr. Niescior is a tailor by trade, an historian of early America by training, and the Senior Historian at the Old Barracks Museum in Trenton, NJ by profession. He has practiced the trade of 18th century tailoring since 2010, and in recent years has branched into practicing elements of carpentry, joinery, turning, shoemaking, blacksmithing, and hatting. Some of his recent projects include six suits of regimental clothing of the Royal Regiment as they may have appeared in 1760, a set of bench planes based on early originals and his shoemaking tools, including his bench. Find him on Instagram @davidthemechanick.