The Invention of Rum in a Era of Revolution
Drinking the Revolution with Jordan Smith, Assistant Professor of History, Widener University
This talk, building on Jordan’s 2025 book The Invention of Rum: Creating the Quintessential Atlantic Commodity, will present a new story...
Brewing a Revolution: How Coffee Transformed the Early United States
Drinking the Revolution with Michelle McDonald, Librarian/Director of the Library and Museum, American Philosophical Society
Coffee is among the most common goods traded and consumed worldwide, and so omnipresent its popularity is often taken for granted. But even...
Taverns and the Post-Revolutionary Republican Experiment
Drinking the Revolution with Kirsten Wood, Professor of History, Florida International University
In Accommodating the Republic: Use of Taverns in the Early United States, Kirsten Wood explores how Americans' use taverns in their...
