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ROBERT A. SELIG

Historian and Author
rselig@remc7.k12.mi.us
Contact via e-mail. Author with family.
I am a professionally trained historian, scholar, lecturer, consultant, editor, and writer. My area of expertise is German and German-American history, particularly the role of Germans in the American Revolutionary War. In the fall of 1999, I received a major research grant from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History to complete the translation and edition of the journal of Georg Daniel Flohr, a young German fighting with the Royal Deux-Ponts regiment in the expeditionary corps of the Comte de Rochambeau in America from 1780 to 1783.
As one of the few experts on this side of the Atlantic on the role of French troops under the comte de Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War, I serve as historical consultant for a three-year project of the State of Connecticut entitled "Rochambeau in Connecticut: Tracing His Journey." My responsibility in the project consists primarily in the identification, cataloguing, and description of aboveground resources relating to the march of Rochambeau's troops through Connecticut on their way to, and from, Yorktown, VA, in 1781 and 1782.
In December 1999, historically interested and patriotic organizations such as the DAR, SAR, Society of the Cincinnati, Souvenir Français, state and local historical societies, and dedicated individuals along the route from Rhode Island to Virginia formed a Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route steering committee to lobby for support for the state site and historical documentation work. Their efforts were rewarded when President Clinton on 9 November 2000 signed Public Law 106-472, authorizing the National Park Service to conduct a resource study of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route. I am on this committee as a historian. In the fall of 2000, I was hired by the Hudson River Valley Greenway Conservancy Inc. to conduct a similar study for the presence of the combined Franco-American armies outside New York City in 1781 and 1782 and am tentatively scheduled to carry out these same studies in Delaware and other states along the route in 2001.
As Contributing Editor for German Life magazine I am in charge of all historical features, and I also write regularly on Revolutionary War topics for the Journal of Colonial Williamsburg. For several years I participated in Colonial Williamsburg's Brothers in Arms symposium on African- American soldiers in America's wars. I am currently writing a history of the winter quarters of Lauzun's Legion, the cavalry portion of Rochambeau's army, in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1780 / 81, for the Tercentenary of the town of Lebanon. In 2001, I will be preparing a translation and edition of Rochambeau's livre d'ordre for the months of March 1780 to August 1781 for the Empire Chapter of the New York State SAR. I am available for similar local history projects as well as for lecturing on a wide variety of topics relating to the American Revolutionary War.
I am interested in public history research, especially in areas with German-American context and connections and German-American businesses. I am involved in the Germany-IN-US program in Indiana, which traces the impact and contributions made by Germans and German- Americans in Indiana history and a consultant for a similar project in Michigan for the German- American Heritage Foundation International. I have worked for several multinational corporations doing German-English and English-German translations (I am also fluent in French and can do French-English and English-French translations as well) and teach German language classes to their employees. I have prepared families for their move to Germany for business and served as chaperone for visiting business-people.
If you are interested in, or have need of, any of these services, feel free to contact me either by phone, fax, e-mail [link provided above], or snail-mail.
Thank you very much!

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
  • German History
  • Early modern European social and demographic history
  • Military history
  • American Colonial and Revolutionary War history
EDUCATION:
  • Ph.D., history, cum laude, Universität Würzburg, 1988
  • Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien in Bayern, 1983
  • M.A., English, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1980
    • DOCTORAL DISSERTATION:
    "Mangy Sheep and Greedy Shepherds: Emigration from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the Eighteenth Century and its Causes" (in German)
    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
  • Visiting Adjunct Professor of German and History, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1993-1997
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, 1993-1994
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1989-1993
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1987 to 1989
  • Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Würzburg, October 1979 to March 1983
    • HONOR AND AWARDS:
  • Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship, Summer 2000
  • Matthew J. and Anne C. Wilson Foundation Faculty Development Fund Grant, Hope College, Summer 1991
  • Willard C. Wichers Faculty Development Grant, Hope College, Summer 1990
  • Cooperative Faculty/Student Research Grant, Hope College, Summer 1990
  • Indiana University International Services Scholarship, 1978-79
  • DAAD Exchange Program Scholarship, 1978-79
    • LANGUAGES:
    German, English, French, Latin and some Russian
    MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
    American Historical Association, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Society for German-American Studies, Society for Military History , Company of Military Historians.
    MILITARY SERVICE:
    July 1, 1974 to March 30, 1976, German Bundeswehr Commissioned Second Lieutenant, March 30, 1976. Honorably discharged April 1, 1976

    DIRECTORY of ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    PUBLISHED: BOOKS  ¨  ARTICLES  ¨  OTHER  ¨  FUTURE
    BOOK REVIEWS  ¨  COMMISSIONED PAPERS
    CONFERENCE: PRESENTATIONS  ¨  PROCEEDINGS
    OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  ¨  WORK IN PROGRESS

    PUBLICATIONS -- BOOKS:
    The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route in the State of Delaware, 1781-1783, A Historical And Architectural Survey (Dover, Delaware, 2003). Project Historian: Robert A. Selig, Ph.D.. Project Director: Daniel R. Griffith, Director and State Historic Preservation Officer, Department of State, Division of Historical and Cultural Affaires State of Delaware; Sponsors: Delaware Society of the American Revolution,
    This is an approximately 300-page report research report on the march of Rochambeau's army through Delaware in 1781 and its return march in 1782.

    The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route in the State of New York, 1781-1783. An Historical and Archaeological Survey (New York, 2001). Project Historian: Robert A. Selig, Ph.D..
    This is an approximately 750-page report research report on the march of Rochambeau's army through New York in 1781 and its return march in 1782..

    Rochambeau in Connecticut: Tracing his Journey. Historic and Architectural Survey. Project Historian: Robert A. Selig, Ph.D.. Connecticut Historical Commission (Hartford: State of Connecticut, 1999)
    This is an approximately 400-page research report on the march of Rochambeau's infantry through Connecticut in 1781 and its return in 1782.

    Rochambeau's Cavalry: Lauzun's Legion in Connecticut 1780-1781. The Winter Quarters of Lauzun's Legion in Lebanon and its March Through the State in 1781. Rochambeau's Conferences in Hartford and Wethersfield. Historic and Architectural Survey, Project Historian: Robert A. Selig, Ph.D.. Connecticut Historical Commission (Hartford: State of Connecticut, 2000).
    This is an approximately 150-page research report on the winter quarters of Lauzun's Legion in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1780/81, their march to New York in the summer of 1781, and the two conferences between George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau in Hartford in September 1780 and in Wethersfield in May 1781.

    A Treatise on Partisan Warfare by Johann von Ewald. Translation, Introduction and Annotation by Robert A. Selig and David Curtis Skaggs. Contributions in Military Studies, Number 116 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1991)

    'Räutige Schafe und Geizige Hirten': Studien zur Auswanderung aus dem Hochstift Würzburg im 18. Jahrhundert und ihren Ursachen. Mainfränkische Studien 43 (Würzburg: HartDruck, 1988)

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    PUBLICATIONS -- ARTICLES:
    "Londary – The Lost German Settlement." German Life, December 2003/January 2004, pp.43-45.

    "Pray and Work – Ora et Labora." German Life, October/November 2003, pp.38-42.

    "Putting the Washington - Rochambeau Trail on the Map," Flintlock & Powderhorn, Magazine of the Sons of the Revolution, Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2003. pp.4-15.

    "In the Beginning was Napoleon." German Life, April/May 2003, pp.40-41, 56.

    "General Johan Georg Baron von Wüst, King of East India 1721 to 1791." German Life, August/September 2003, pp. 44-46.

    "Eyewitness to Yorktown." Military History , February 2003, pp.58-64.

    "George Washington's German Allies: Das Deutsche Königlich-Französische Infanterie Regiment von Zweybrücken Or Royal Deux-Ponts, Part 3: July 1781 - June 1783." JOURNAL of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002, pp.29-43. [See: Part 1 in Vol. 6, No. 4, 2000; Part 2 in Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001.]

    "George Washington's German Allies: Das Deutsche Königlich-Französische Infanterie Regiment von Zweybrücken Or Royal Deux-Ponts, Part 2: March 1780 -June 1781." JOURNAL of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001, pp.43-53.

    "'Give us this day our Daily Bread': Food and Agriculture in 18th-Century Germany." German Life, Vol. 8, No. 6, April/May 2002, pp. 36-40.

    "New Bern, North Carolina. Founded by a Swiss nobleman, Christoph von Graffenried, the early 18th-century settlement of baronie Bernbery was an exception - it thrived against all odds." German Life Vol. 8, No.1, June/July 2001, pp. 41-43 and p. 56.

    "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves? 600 Jahre Zigeuner in Deutschland." German Life Vol. 7, No. 5, February/March 2001, pp. 41-43 and p. 53.

    "Mount Vernon after Washington: The Rescue of an American Memory." Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation vol. 22 No. 1, (Spring 2000), pp. 48-54.

    "A New View of Old Williamsburg. A Huntington Library Manuscript Provides Another Glimpse of the City in 1781." Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation vol. 22 No. 1, (Spring 2000), pp. 30-34.

    "Germans and German-Americans in the Continental Army, 1775-1783." German Life, October/November 2001, pp. 42-45.

    "Traveling On the Washington-Rochambeau-Revolutionary-Route." Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine Vol. 135, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 428-435.

    "The word liberté was frequently heard. The Royal Deux-Ponts in the American and the French revolutions" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Spring 2001, pp. 80-84.

    "Germans in Russia." German Life Vol. 7, No. 3, December/January 2000/2001, pp. 42-44.

    "The Euro at one: Success, failure or a bit of both?" German-Canadian Business & Trade Directory 2000 (Toronto, 2000), pp. 49-51

    "Johann Georg Wüst. Der König von Ostindien." Damals. Das aktuelle Magazin für Geschichte und Kultur Vol. 32, No. 11, November 2000, pp. 66-71.

    "The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification between the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church." German Life Vol. 7, No. 3, October/November 2000, pp. 40- 43.

    "The Iconography to Triumph and Surrender" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 2000, pp. 72-77

    "From Newport to Yorktown: Following the Road to Victory" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Autumn 2000, pp. 66-71

    "To Own or Not to Own? German Experiments in Communitarian, Communistic, and Cooperative Living in America." German Life Vol. 7, No. 1, June/July 2000, pp. 36-39.

    "Life as it was: Pennsylvania Folk Artist Ludwig Miller (1796-1882)." German Life Vol. 6, No. 6, April/May 2000, pp. 18-20.

    "George Washington's German Allies: Das Deutsche Königlich-Französische Infanterie Regiment von Zweybrücken Or Royal Deux-Ponts, Part 1: 1756-1780" JOURNAL of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association Vol. 6, No. 4, 2000, pp.52-59.

    "'Mon très cher oncle': Lieutenant Graf Wilhelm von Schwerin writes home from a Virginia Victory" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 2000, pp. 48-54.

    "Rats, Maggots, and Hardtack-Transatlantic Travel in the Eighteenth Century" German Life Vol. 6, No. 5, February/March 2000, pp. 26-31

    "The 20th Century-the German Century? Germany in World History, 1890-2000 and Beyond" German Life Vol. 6, No. 4, December 1999/January 2000, pp. 38-43.

    "The duc de Lauzun and his Légion, Rochambeau's most troublesome, colorful soldiers " Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 21, No. 6, December/January 2000, pp. 56-63. Also at www.AmericanRevolution.org

    "I Enlisted on the First Day: German-Americans and the American Civil War, 1861-1865" German Life Vol. 6, No. 3, October/November 1999, pp. 42-45

    "Nothing but Sky and Water: Descriptions of Transatlantic Travel from the Journal of Georg Daniel Flohr, Grenadier, Royal Deux-Ponts, 1780-1783" Naval History Vol. 13, No. 5, September/October 1999, pp. 29-34.

    "François Joseph Paul Comte de Grasse, the Battle off the Virginia Capes, and the American Victory at Yorktown" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 21, No. 5, October/November 1999, pp. 26-32.

    "The Prince and the Pauper: Christian von Zweibrücken and Lucy Randolph" German Life Vol. 6, No. 2, August/September 1999, pp. 40-42. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "A French Volunteer who lived to rue America's Revolution: Denis Jean Florimond de Langlois, Marquis du Bouchet" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 21, No. 3, June/July 1999, pp. 16-25.

    "Swiss Anabaptists to Virginia? Franz Ludwig Michel's Journey to Williamsburg" German Life Vol. 6, No. 1, June/July 1999, pp. 42-45.

    "Reluctant Alliance: The United States, Germany, and the Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization" German Life Vol. 5, No. 6, April/May 1999, pp. 20-23.

    "Who were the Huguenots?" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 21, No. 2, April/May 1999, pp. 67-71.

    "Ungarland ist's Reichste Land: Carlowitz, the Rákóczi Revolt, and the Origins of German Settlement in Hungary" German Life Vol. 5, No. 5, February/March 1999, pp. 21- 25.

    "Eye for an Eye? Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany" German Life Vol. 5, No. 4, December/January 1998/99, pp. 23-27. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "Armseliges Deutschland: War Defeat, Reparations, Inflation and the Year 1923 in German History" German Life Vol. 5, No. 3, October/November 1998, pp. 20-24. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "Wilhelmsburg in the Year 1702: The Account of Franz Ludwig Michel" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 20, No. 4, Summer 1998, pp. 23-31. Also at www.patc.net/michel2.html

    "Some Special Magic: The Origin of the German State" German Life Vol. 5, No. 2, August/ September 1998, pp. 42-45. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "1945 to1948: America's Long Road to the Federal Republic of Germany (West)" German Life Vol. 5, No. 1, June/July 1998, pp. 26-30. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "Bismarck's Map of Africa: The fate of Germany's Colonies" German Life Vol. 4, No. 6, April/May 1998, pp. 40-44.

    "The German Revolutions of 1848" German Life Vol. 4, No. 5, February/March 1998, pp. 26-31. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "From the Taler to the Euro: How much is that in Real Money?" German Life Vol. 4, No. 4, December 1997/January 1998, pp. 22-25. Also at www.germanlife.com

    "The Revolution's Black Soldiers. They fought for both Sides in their Quest for Freedom" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 19, No. 4, Summer 1997, pp. 15-22. Also at www.AmericanRevolution.org

    "The Lotto=Lottery in Eighteenth-Century Germany" German Life Vol. 4, No. 3, October/ November 1997, pp. 39-41 and pp. 50-51.

    "Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. First Inspector General of the United States Army (1730-1794)" German Life Vol. 4, No. 2, August/September 1997, pp. 44-46.

    "Reklamebilder: German Collectors' Cards" German Life Vol. 4, No. 1, June/July 1996, pp. 26-29.

    "America the Ungrateful: The Not-So-Fond Remembrances of Louis François Dupont d'Aubevoye, Comte de Lauberdière" American Heritage Vol. 48, No. 1, February 1997, pp. 101-106.

    "John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press" German Life Vol. 3, No. 5, February/ March 1997, pp. 44-47.

    "Von Wilden und Mohren: Africans in Early Modern Germany" German Life Vol. 3, No. 4, December 1996/January 1997, pp. 38-41.

    "Emigration and the Safety-Valve Theory in the Eighteenth Century: Some Mathematical Evidence from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg" Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies Vol. 31, 1996, pp. 137-155 (with Duane Broline)

    "And is, Alas! The Hour of our Parting Come?" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1996, pp. 46-53.

    "American Planning for Post-World War II Germany" German Life Vol. 3, No. 2, August/ September 1996, pp. 44-46. Also published at www.germanlife.com

    "What Price Unity? Reflections on the 125th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the German Empire on 18 January 1871" German Life Vol. 2, No. 5, February/ March 1996, pp. 26-30.

    "Lauberdière's Journal. The Revolutionary War Journal of Louis François Bertrand d'Aubevoye, Comte de Lauberdière" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 18, No. 1, Autumn 1995, pp. 33-37.

    "Storming the Redoubts (Yorktown, 14 October 1781)" Military History Quarterly Vol. 8, No. 1, Autumn 1995, pp. 18-27.

    "Deux-Ponts Germans. Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution" German Life Vol. 2, No. 2, August/September 1995, pp. 50-53. Also at www.AmericanRevolution.org

    "Finding Fame in Virginia: But Fortune eluded Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 1994-95, pp. 55-59.

    "The French Capture of St. Eustatius, 26 November 1781" Journal of Caribbean History Vol. 27, No. 2, December 1993, pp. 129-143.

    "Private Flohr's Other Life: The young German fought for American Independence, went home, and returned as a man of peace" American Heritage Vol. 45, No. 6, October 1994, pp. 94-95.

    "A German Soldier in New England During the Revolutionary War: The Account of Georg Daniel Flohr" Newport History Vol. 65, Part 2, No. 223, Fall 1993, pp. 48-65.

    "A German Soldier in America, 1780-1783: The Journal of Georg Daniel Flohr" William and Mary Quarterly 50, No. 3, July 1993, pp. 575-590
    Featured as an outstanding scholarly article in "The Periodical Observer" Wilson Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 1994, pp. 136-137.

    "Georg Daniel Flohr's Journal: A New Perspective" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 15, No. 4, Summer 1993, pp. 47-53. Also at www.AmericanRevolution.org

    "Light Infantry Lessons from America? Johann von Ewald's Experiences in the War for Independence" Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 23, 1993, pp. 111-129.

    "Idea and Practice of the ius emigrandi in the Holy Roman Empire from the Reformation to the French Revolution" Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 15-22.

    "Private Flohr's America. From Newport to Yorktown and the Battle that won the War: a German Foot Soldier who fought for American Independence tells all about it in a newly discovered Memoir" American Heritage Vol. 43, No. 8, December 1992, pp. 64-71.
    Repr. in Battles and Leaders F. Allen, ed., (New York: Forbes, 1994), pp. 2-9.

    "The Price of Freedom: Poverty, Emigration and Taxation in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the Eighteenth Century" Yearbook of the Society for German-American Studies Vol. 26, 1991, pp. 105-126.

    "Emigration, Fraud, Humanitarianism and the Founding of Londonderry, South Carolina, 1763-1765" Eighteenth Century Studies Vol. 23, No. 1, Fall 1989, pp. 1-23

    "Regulations for the Child-Weavers in the Juliusspital Workhouse in Würzburg (1731)" Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 1988, pp. 117-129.

    "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steubens Kommando in Virginia (1780/81)" in: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Leben, Zeit, und Zeitgenossen. W. Giesebrecht, ed., (Würzburg: Handels-druckerei, 1980), pp. 115-125.

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    ACCEPTED AND/OR SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION:
    "Christoph von Graffenried and the Founding of New Berne, North Carolina" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

    "Freedom Seldom Found: African-American Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" American Legacy.

    "Washington's deutsche Verbündete: Das deutsche könglich französische Infantrie-Regiment Zweibrücken" Damals. Ein Historisches Magazin.

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    CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
    "Eighteenth-Century Last Wills and Testaments as a Source for Social History. Winterhausen as a Case Study" Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual European Studies Conference Omaha, Nebraska, 1988, pp. 317-328.

    "'Underpaid and Overworked': The Plight of Servants in Eighteenth Century Franconia" Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual European Studies Conference Omaha, Nebraska, 1987, pp. 255-266.

    "'Mangy Sheep and Greedy Shepherds': Emigration from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg during the Eighteenth Century and its Causes" Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual European Studies Conference Omaha, Nebraska, 1986, pp. 238-249.

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    OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
    "Hoosier Germany" German Life Vol. 6, No. 5, February/March 2000, p. 8.

    "Georg Daniel Flohr" Beyond Germanna Vol. 10, No. 6, November 1998, pp. 591-592, and Vol. 11, No. 1, January 1999, pp.606-607.

    "18th-Century European and American Currencies" Beyond Germanna Vol. 11, No. 2, March 1999, pp. 616-617.

    Five 200-word entries in the 'Yesteryears' section of each issue of German Life, beginning with Vol. 6, No. 1, June/July 1998. Some entries are also at www.germanlife.com

    "The Freshest Advices (post-script to my essay 'And is, Alas! The Hour of our Parting Come')" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 19, No. 1, Fall 1996, pp. 14-15.

    "Reflections on the 125th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the German Empire" Newsletter of the Society for German-American Studies Vol. 17, No. 1, March 1996, pp. 1-2.

    "The Palatial Splendor of the Mozartfest in Würzburg" German Life Vol. 3, No. 1, July 1996, p. 43.

    "The Freshest Advices (post-script to my essay 'Lauberdière's Journal')" Colonial Williamsburg. The Journal of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter 1995-96, pp. 6-7.

    "Franconia", "Artisans", "Peasants", in: Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions J. Chastain, ed., Published only on the Internet under www.cats.ohiou.edu/~chastain/

    "Abatis", "Desertion, Army", "Discipline, Army", "Infantry", "Light Infantry", "Manuals, Military", " Recruitment, Army ", "Redoubt", "Strategy", "Tactics, Infantry ", in: Colonial Wars of North America 1512-1763. An Encyclopedia Alan Gallay, ed., (New York:Garland, 1996), pp.1, 172, 176-77, 308, 383, 412-13, 624-25, 625, 722-23, 735-36.

    "Augustus II, King of Poland, Elector of Saxony", "Bavaria, Revolt in (1705-06)", "Cayenne", "Gertruydenberg", "Maximilian Emanuel von Wittelsbach, Elector of Bavaria", "Orsbeck, Johann Hugo von, and Lothringen, Karl Joseph von, Electors of Treves", "Pfalz-Neuburg, Johann Wilhelm von der, Elector Palatinate", "Schönborn, Lothar Franz von, Elector of Mainz", "Tyrol, Revolt in (1703)" in: Historical Dictionary of the Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession Linda and Marsha Frey, eds., (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995), pp. 22-23, 35-36, 88-89, 181-83, 278-81, 322-23, 343-44, 401-03, 448-49.

    "Royal-Deux-Ponts", "Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben", in: Encyclopedia of the American Revolution Richard C. Blanco, ed., 2 Vols. (New York: Garland, 1993), Vol. 2, pp. 1436-39, and 1579-85.

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    BOOK REVIEWS:
    Wilhelm Kaufmann, The Germans in the American Civil War Steven Rowan, Transl. (1911; Carlisle, PA, 1999) German Life Vol. 6, No. 3, October/November 1999, p. 56.

    Antonius Holtmann, ed., Für Gans America Gehe ich nich Wieder Bei die Solldaten … . (Bremen/Rostock: Edition Temmen, 1999) German Life Vol. 6, No. 3, October/November 1999, p. 56.

    Mack Walker, The Salzburg Transaction: Expulsion and Redemption in Eighteenth-Century Germany. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1992) The Austrian History Yearbook Vol. 29, 1993, pp. 228-229.

    John Rule, The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England 1750-1850. (White Plains, New York: Longman, 1986) European Studies Journal Vol. 5, No. 1, 1988, pp. 76-77.

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    COMMISSIONED PAPERS:
    "Rochambeau in Connecticut: Tracing his Journey." Paper presented at the invitation of the Connecticut Military Department and the Connecticut Militia Heritage Committee in Hartford, CT, on May 11, 1999 and at the annual "Rochambeau-Day" celebration in Hartford in October 1999.

    "Johann Adam Gabel, Grenadier, Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts, and the Revolutionary Road." Paper presented at the invitation of the Lebanon and Plainfield, CT, Historical Societies, on May 5, 1999.

    "George Washington's German Allies: The Royal Deux-Ponts." Paper presented at the invitation of the German Heritage Society of Greater Washington D.C. in October 1997.

    "Black Virginians in the Armies of the American Revolutionary War." Paper presented at the invitation of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and at the symposium.

    "Brothers in Arms: The Black Presence in the U. S. Military" sponsored by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in June 1997 and in June 1998, as well as at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia, in October 1997.

    "African-Americans in the American Revolutionary War." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Company of Military Historians in Wheaton, Illinois, in May 1997.

    "A New Look At The Washingtons: The Not-So-Fond Remembrances of the Comte de Lauberdière." Paper presented at the invitation of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in June 1996.

    "Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, the first Inspector-General of the United States Army." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in November 1995.

    "Soldier, Student, Clergyman: The Life and Times of Georg Daniel Flohr, 1756-1826." Paper presented at the invitation of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Wytheville in August 1994, and at Grace Episcopal Church in Yorktown, Virginia, in October 1997.

    "The American Campaigns of Georg Daniel Flohr, Fusilier, Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts, 1780-1783." Paper presented at the invitation of the Preservation Society of Newport County in Newport, Rhode Island, in May 1993.

    "A German Soldier in New England during the Revolutionary War: The account of Georg Daniel Flohr." Paper presented at the invitation of the Coventry Historical Society in Coventry, Connecticut, in April 1993.

    "A German Soldier in America, 1780-1783: The Journal of Georg Daniel Flohr." Paper presented at the invitation of the Commission on the Tercentenary Observances of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in September 1992.

    "Friendly Bayonets? The French Losses during the Storming of Redoubt #9." Paper presented at the invitation of the Yorktown Victory Center in Yorktown, Virginia, in September 1992.

    "The Iroquois as seen through the eyes of Georg Daniel Flohr, Fusilier, Regiment Royal- Deux-Ponts." Paper presented at the invitation of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, in April 1992.

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    CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
    "General Johann Georg Baron von Wüst, King of East India." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-West American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Indianapolis in October 1996.

    "The Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment of Infantry." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for German-American Studies in Madison, Wisconsin, in April 1996.

    "George Washington's German Allies: The Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts." Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in October 1993, and the East Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Towson, Maryland, in November, 1993.

    "Below Deck on a French Troop Transport: The Journal of Georg Daniel Flohr, 1780-1783." Paper presented at the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History in Missoula, Montana, in October 1993.

    "Farmhands, Maids and Domestic Servants in Eighteenth-Century Franconia." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies in Toledo, Ohio, in October 1992.

    "The French Capture of St. Eustatius, 22 November 1781." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History in Quantico, Virginia, in April 1992.

    "American Life and Customs as seen through the Eyes of Georg Flohr, Fusilier Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts." Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Kansas City, Missouri, in October 1991.

    "The American Campaigns of Georg Flohr, Fusilier, Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts (1780- 1783)." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Military Institute in Durham, North Carolina, in March 1991 and the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Louisville, Kentucky, in April 1991.

    "Idea and Practice of the `Ius Emigrandi' in the Holy Roman Empire from the Reformation to the French Revolution." Paper presented at the Second International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, in September 1990.

    "The Price of Freedom: Emigration and its Taxation in the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg before 1803." Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual Symposium for German- American Studies at Indianapolis, Indiana, in April 1990.

    "American Independence through the Eyes of a Hessian Officer: Johann von Ewald and his Abhandlung über den Kleinen Krieg." Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Colorado Springs, Colorado, in February 1990.

    "Eighteenth-Century Last Wills and Testaments as a Source for Social History." Paper presented at the European Studies Conference at Omaha, Nebraska, in October 1988.

    "The Financial Burdens of Emigration in the Eighteenth Century: The Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg as a Case Study." Paper presented at the Annual Social Science History Conference at Chicago, Illinois, in November 1988.

    "Underpaid and Overworked: The Plight of Servants in Eighteenth-Century Franconia." Paper presented at the European Studies Conference at Omaha, Nebraska, in October 1987.

    "Johann Heinrich Christian von Stümpel, the Board of Trade and the German Settlers of Hard Labor Creek, South Carolina (1764)." Paper presented at the Western Conference on British Studies at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Carolinas Symposium on British Studies at Raleigh, North Carolina, in October 1987.

    "Mangy Sheep and Greedy Shepherds: Emigration from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg during the Eighteenth Century." Paper presented at the German Studies Association Conference at Albuquerque, New Mexico, in September 1986 and the European Studies Conference at Omaha, Nebraska, in October 1986.

    "Villeins, Vagrants, Veterans: On the Social Composition of a Group of Emigrants from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg in the Year 1764." Paper presented at the New York State Association of European Historians Conference at Syracuse, New York, in October 1986.

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    OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
    "Consultant to the German-American Heritage Foundation International," Harper Woods, Michigan.

    Consultant to the Connecticut Historical Commission for the Rochambeau Route Historical Resource Survey Project, 1998-00.

    Contributing Editor, German Life, beginning with Vol. 4, No. 3, October/November 1997.

    Referee for The Journal of Military History.

    Director, German Program, Holland Christian High School, Holland, Michigan, spring 1995.

    Consultant to "Thomas Jefferson: A Complex Legacy." Martin Doblmeier, producer, broadcast on PBS-TV stations in the American Experience series in the spring of 1995.

    Organized and/or chaired sessions on military history at the meetings of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Western Society for French History in October and November 1993.

    Chair and Commentator for a session in Modern German History at the Great Lakes History Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in October 1993.

    Researcher and Consultant for the Yorktown Victory Center, continuously since 1993.

    Researcher and compiler on the staff preparing the exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birthday of Baron von Steuben, 1979-81. This exhibition was shown in Germany in Berlin, Suttgart, and Würzburg and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

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    WORK IN PROGRESS:
    En avant With Our French Allies: A Guide to Sites, Markers, and Monuments in Connecticut Commemorating the Contributions of French Troops under the Comte de Rochambeau to the Achievement of American Independence, 1780 to 1782 (Connecticut Historical Commission, Hartford, CT).

    Lauzun's Legion in Lebanon, 1780-1781: A Connecticut Town and the French Army during the American Revolution Booklet to be published by the Lebanon Historical Society during the Tercentennial Celebration of the Town of Lebanon.

    "Africans in the Armies of Pre-Revolutionary France." Article to be included in a collection of essays entitled Constructing Race In France, Sue Peabody et al., eds.

    The American Campaigns of Georg Daniel Flohr, Fusilier, Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts.

    Das Winterhäuser Tagebuch des Johann Hoffmann, 1900-1945.

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