This talk will explore the lives and experiences of Loyalists from the Hudson Valley during the Revolutionary War. Although many colonists supported American independence, a large minority favored remaining in the British Empire. Loyalists in the Hudson Valley faced an especially fraught situation, with much of the war raging in and around the region. We will learn who these Loyalists were, what their war experiences were like, and what happened to them after the Revolution.

 This presentation will be presented entirely online via a link sent after registration.

Kieran J. O'Keefe is an Assistant Professor of History at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. His book, Suffering for the Crown: The Hudson Valley Loyalists, Violence, and Forced Migration in Revolutionary North America, is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

This program will be recorded, access to which will be shared with all registrants the following day.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.