Author’s Talk—The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821
November 4, 2026 @ 6:30 pm
Independent historian Richard Vague discusses his new book that shows how Thomas Willing, early America’s dominant merchant trader, first bank president, and first central banker, bankrolled—and in the process helped save—the Revolution and later fundamentally shaped the…
Voices of Revolution
February 28, 2026 - January 10, 2027
The United States of America was forged in the meeting halls and on the battlefields of the American Revolution, which established our republican form of government and committed the new country to ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights…