Our Next Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at Marymount University’s Main Campus, located at 2807 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22207. We will meet in a separate room adjacent to the Dining Hall. If you plan to attend, please email Richard Rankin (at brandywinecreek@aol.com) or text at 571-436-7846 to let him know that you plan to join us.
If you are interested attending via Zoom only, please reply to me (Christian) and let me know.Our Next Meeting’s Topic:
Denver Brunsman will discuss his new book, George Washington and His World: Enslaver, Revolutionary, President (Oxford University Press, 2026). George Washington and His World provides a compelling, fresh portrait of America’s indispensable founder. Combining the latest historical findings with original primary research, award-winning historian Denver Brunsman provides new understanding of Washington’s rise and influence by emphasizing the people and society who made the first president’s accomplishments possible. Enslaver and revolutionary, destroyer of Native American communities and father of American liberty, Washington filled numerous roles in the Founding Era. Rather than shy from these contradictions, Brunsman embraces them in explaining Washington to a twenty-first century audience. What emerges is a study in human complexity rarely known in works on Washington. Brunsman accomplishes this feat with a light touch and crisp, engaging storytelling. His purpose is neither to celebrate nor to vilify but to further understanding of this remarkable American life.
Denver Brunsman is an Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at George Washington University, where his courses include “George Washington and His World,” taught annually at the Mount Vernon estate. He is an award-winning author of The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (2013); co-author of a leading college and AP U.S. History textbook, Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (2016; 2020); and co-editor of The American Revolution Reader (2014), among other publications
Please arrive by 6:00 PM to leisurely enjoy your dinner in our private room located adjacent to the Dining Hall. Also, we are not permitted to purchase or use any alcoholic beverages on campus.
We anticipate that the Speaker will start his presentation at around 6:45 PM.
Thank you,
Christian McBurney
President, American Revolution Round Table of Washington, DC
Come and meet others who share an interest in the American Revolution to enjoy fellowship and lively discussions over dinner, followed by an exciting presentation on some aspect of America's colonial, revolutionary or early national past.
If you wish to attend a meeting, please send an e-mail advising same at least 24 hours in advance to Treasurer Richard Rankin at Brandywinecreek@aol.com and President Christian McBurney at mcburneyc1@gmail.com.
We typically meet at 6 pm at a separate room inside the Dining Hall in Gerard Phelan Hall of Marymount University’s Main Campus, which is located at 2807 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22207.
Please park in the main car parking lot at G1. See the maps below to help guide you to the meeting location. If you are arriving from the north, be aware that Glebe Rd. is a divided highway so travel past the school lot down to the traffic light at N. 26th St and make a left turn there, followed by a second left turn to head north onto Glebe Rd.
Upon arrival at the meeting room, please tell any attendee that you are a new guest and would like to meet a Club Officer.
Dinner and conversation begins at 6:00 pm.
Speaker presentations begin at about 7:00 p.m.
The meeting concludes at about 8:15 p.m.
Yearly membership is $25.00. Our remaining in-person meetings for this season are scheduled for the second Tuesday of the month: November 10, 2026, and March 9, April 13, May 11, and June 8, 2027. We are planning to hold Zoom-only meetings during the winter.
New membership season dates are planned for September 14, October 12, and November 9, 2027. Dates are subject to change due to speaker availability.
We typically issue an e-mail each month informing you of the upcoming speaker and describe upcoming local American Revolution lectures and other events of interest. If you have any questions, comments, etc. please contact the aforementioned officers and/or VP Gene Procknow at geneprock@gmail.com or Secretary Doug Bonforte at @ebonforte@cox.net.
