Britain's Loyal Colonies Lost With Dr. David Head

America’s 250th Anniversary

Celebrate America’s semiquincentennial with Dr. David Head, a historian, author and lecturer of history at UCF, for a talk and Q&A session on the American Revolution in Florida.

As thirteen of Britain’s colonies declared independence in 1776, the empire’s Florida colonies, East Florida and West Florida, remained loyal to King George. Eyed by American and Spanish forces alike, the Floridas were soon engulfed in war. This lecture tells the often-overlooked story of Florida in the War of Independence.

Dr. David Head is a scholar of early America who currently researches the American Revolution and the early American republic. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, and his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, George Washington's Mount Vernon, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the Maryland Historical Society. His most recent book is an edited collection called "A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation." Find out more about Dr. Head at davidheadhistory.com.

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