Since 1975, the Society of the Cincinnati has sponsored the annual George Rogers Clark Lecture, which recognizes the scholarship of leading historians of the American Revolution. Some of the Clark Lecturers—most notably Edmund S. Morgan, whose The Genius of George Washington is a classic of Washington scholarship—have presented lectures that stand alone as important works of scholarship. Others, including David McCullough, have offered a very personal perspective on one of their major published works. Gordon S. Wood and others have distilled a generation of classroom teaching and scholarship into a synthesis illuminating the major significance of the American Revolution. Still others, including David Hackett Fischer, have offered a glimpse of the historian's craft by presenting a lecture based on their ongoing research.
Scholarship
GEORGE ROGERS
CLARK LECTURES
George Rogers Clark
Lectures from 1975 to present

2019
John Hardman
Louis XVI and the War of American Independence2018
Kathleen DuVal
The American Revolution on the Spanish Borderlands2017
Robert Allison
Was the American Revolution Inevitable?2016
Andrew O'Shaughnessy
The British Empire and the Causes of the American Revolution2015
Maya Jasanoff
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World2014
James Kirby Martin
George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy2013
Carol Berkin
"It Was I Who Did It": Women in the American Revolution2012
Walter Edgar
The American Revolution in the South: A Story Seldom Told2011
Pauline Maier
The People Debate the Constitution2010
David Hackett Fischer
George Washington and the Extraordinary Allen McLane2009
Joanne B. Freeman
The Crisis Mentality of the 1790s: Dirty Nasty Politics in the New Republic2008
Garry Wills
Houdon's Washington: An Artist between Revolutions2007
Ron Chernow
Hamilton, Washington, and the Birth of the American Republic2006
Bernard Bailyn
Why Britain Lost the American Revolution2005
Thomas Fleming
A Visit to Valley Forge2004
David McCullough
17762003
Gordon S. Wood
The American Revolutionary Tradition and the World2002
Ira D. Gruber
From Caesar to Vauban: Books, the British Army Officer, and the Conduct of War in the Age of the American Revolution2001
Richard Buel, Jr.
The Critical Role of Corn, Cows, and Cuba in the Revolutionary War2000
Richard Norton Smith
Untrodden Ground: Washington Invents the Presidency1999
John K. Alexander
"Remember the Ladies"—Women in the American Revolution1998
Timothy H. Breen
Mobilizing Colonial Consumers for Independence1997
Don Higginbotham
Washington The Unifier1996
William M. Fowler, Jr.
Silas Talbot: An American Hero1995
Fred Anderson
The Hinge of the Revolution: July 31994
Dave R. Palmer
From Revolution to Republic: America, Its Army and the Birth of a Nation1993
John M. Murrin
War, Revolution and Nation-Making: The American Revolution versus the Civil War1992
Robert K. Wright, Jr.
A New Look at the Southern Campaigns: A Contingency Operation?1991
Minor Myers, Jr.
Another L'Enfant Creation, the Cincinnati Eagle1990
William James Morgan
Out of a Little, A Great Deal Will Grow: The American War at Sea1989
Charles McC. Mathias
Exalted Rights and Liberties1988
George Athan Billias
Elbridge Gerry: Defender of Republican Faith1987
Hobart G. Cawood
Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Constitution1986
Allan R. Millett
Whatever Became of the Militia in the History of the American Revolution?1985
John R. Galvin
Parker at Lexington: Role of Perspective and Context1984
Russell F. Weigley
Generals Building an Army: American Military Command in the War of Independence1982
John W. Shy
Understanding General Washington1979
Page Smith
Reflections on the Nature of Leadership1977
Edmund S. Morgan
The Genius of George Washington1976
J. H. Plumb
New Light on the Tyrant George III1975
Samuel Eliot Morison
The Conservative American Revolution
