History Summit online, 25 April

With book launches and tours canceled because of the pandemic, authors are turning to technology to promote their work and talk with readers.

On Saturday, 25 April, twenty-two authors will appear online as part of History Summit 2020. Lindsay M. Chervinsky is the organizer of this effort, as well as one of the authors.

It looks like the authors are inviting questions through that website (and other platforms), and preparing videos to go online on 25 April.

The books being highlighted cover a broad range of history, from the Roman Empire to twentieth-century politics. They’re also written for a range of audiences. Some are already out, others on their way.

Here are the titles that touch on eighteenth-century America:

• Lindsay M. Chervinsky, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
• Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre: A Family History
• Jamie L.H. Goodall, Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: A Brief History of Piracy in Maryland and Virginia
• David Head, A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution
• Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History
• Sarah Jane Marsh, Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams
• Joshua R. Greenberg, Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic
• Whitney Martinko, Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States

And there’s more for people interested in other periods.

(Online meeting of the Continental Congress image above by the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, with apologies to John Trumbull.)