‘Outside the Wire’ Book Signing
Christine Dumaine Leche, editor of Outside the Wire: American Soldiers’ Voices from Afghanistan, will be speaking and signing books at two events in April. Please read further for full schedule.

Christine Dumaine Leche, editor of Outside the Wire: American Soldiers’ Voices from Afghanistan, will be speaking and signing books at two events in April. Please read further for full schedule.
When Gordon Wood recently delivered the inaugural Washington Lecture at George Washington University, he was introduced by Denver Brunsman, author of the forthcoming The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
We have added Presidential Series volume 16 to our Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, published by our Rotunda electronic imprint. This volume contains over 500 documents from 1 May through 30 September 1794.
To mark Religious Freedom Day, John Ragosta, author of the forthcoming Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed, has just published a piece in the Washington Post tracing Jefferson’s role in achieving a separation of church and state.
Any fans of the latest edition of Best New Poets who happen to be in the New York area should mark their calendars for two upcoming events. A number of BNP contributors will be reading from their work at 7:30 on January 7 at Bar 13 in Greenwich Village. On January 9 at 7:00 more BNP contributors will be reading at BookCourt in Brooklyn.
One of the most popular events in the Fall Lecture Series at the Mariners’ Museum proved to be Mapping Virginia author William Wooldridge’s presentation, “Where in the World Was Virginia? Mapping a Moving Place, 1587-1865.” As Wooldridge explains, during the age of exploration the exact location of Virginia was still very much open to debate.