Gaithersburg Book Festival (2018) -- Ken Miller, Robert P. Watson:
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Description of Pictures: Ken Miller, Robert P. Watson
Non-Fiction
Revolutionary War Prisoners
American POWs in Brooklyn's floating prison stirred colonial outrage, while British captives held in makeshift detention camps in Lancaster, PA created a flashpoint for community conflict, prolonging the fight to create a national identity.
Ken Miller
Ken Miller is an associate professor of History at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., where he teaches courses on early America. He is the author of “Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities During the War for Independence,” which won the “Journal of the American Revolution” Book of the Year Award. He has appeared on C-SPAN3’s American History TV and the acclaimed history podcast, “Ben Franklin’s World,” and has held fellowships from such notable institutions as the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia and the David Library of the American Revolution.
Robert Watson
Robert P. Watson, Ph.D. is an award-winning author, historian, professor and media commentator who has published 40 books and hundreds of scholarly articles and popular essays and is regularly interviewed by print, radio and television news outlets, including C-SPAN’s Book TV. His recent books include “The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II” (Da Capo Press, 2016); “America’s First Crisis: The War of 1812” (SUNY Press, 2014), winner of the Independent Publishers’ Gold Medal; and “Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
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2018 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Greenville, NC, Newport News, VA, and my farewell event with them in Chicago, IL (via sites in Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, and Toledo, OH),
three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and
my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles).
Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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