Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2022
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign," at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
In the summer of 1777, the seat of the American Revolution shifted from New York to Philadelphia. Stretching from the Head of Elk, Maryland, to the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey, the Philadelphia Campaign witnessed the Continental Army and the British Crown Forces marching, camping, skirmishing, and engaging battles across portions of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Over the last fifty years, archaeologists have studied many sites associated with the conflicts and the lives of the soldiers who were engaged in the campaign. This session, though, seeks to expand the interpretation of conflict. Through documentary research, field studies, and the application of technology, the researchers in this session will broadly examine the consequences of the campaign on the social fabric of the 18th century landscape.
Other Keywords
Memory •
conflict •
American Revolution •
Philadelphia Campaign •
Fortification •
Archives •
African Americans •
Revolutionary War •
Cannon •
GIS mapping
Geographic Keywords
Philadelphia •
Mid-Atlantic •
South Jersey •
Chester County, Pennsylvnia •
Middle Atlantic, Delaware Valley •
Philadelphia Campaign •
Southeastern PA/Philadelphia
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-8 of 8)
- Documents (8)
- "‘All this appears to be forgotten now’": Memory, Race, and Commemoration at Red Bank Battlefield (2022)
- The Brandywine Battlefield – Anthropological Approaches in Battlefield Analysis, Prediction, and Investigation to interpret differing realities of Landscape and Strategy. (2022)
- Destruction & Wanton Waste: The Impact of War in a Peaceful Valley (2022)
- "A Dreadful Scene of Havock": Richard Mansergh St. George and the Battles of Brandywine, Paoli, and Germantown (2022)
- "The French Engineer Burst A 24-Pounder In The Fort At Red Banks": Contextualizing An Accidental Artifact (2022)
- Mapping 1777 Chester County: Harnessing Today’s Technologies to Better Understand the Past (2022)
- The Memory of Paoli: The Intersections Among Conflict, Memory, Memorial, and Archaeology (2022)
- Rending the Social Fabric: Revolution in Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1774-1779 (2022)