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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk– Bergen County Voices from the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Revolutionary War was truly America’s first civil war. 
 Nowhere was that better exhibited than in Bergen County. Governor William 
 Livingston in 1777 referred to it as “that almost totally disaffected 
 county” and actually sent an expedition of state militia from neighboring 
 counties into it to round up Loyalists. But those partisans for each side 
 has something in common: they were all Americans\, New Jerseyians with 
 perhaps differing views of freedom and liberty. Join us as we examine some 
 of the county residents who took arms for both sides in the firm belief of 
 the righteousness of their cause and what became of them. Based on the 2012 
 book “Bergen County Voices from the American Revolution: Soldiers and 
 Residents in Their Own Words” by Todd W. Braisted.\n\nTodd Braisted is an 
 author and independent researcher specializing in Loyalist studies during 
 the American Revolution. He has published over sixty books and journal 
 articles on a variety of period subjects\, including the 2016 book Grand 
 Forage 1778.Todd has likewise appeared as a guest historian on such 
 television shows as History Detectives and Who Do You Think You Are? Over 
 the past four decades\, he has served as president of the Bergen County 
 Historical Society and the Brigade of the American Revolution and is a 
 Fellow in the Company of Military Historians. In 2018 he received the Award 
 of Recognition from the New Jersey Historical Commission and in 2026 the 
 History Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution in addition to 
 being named an Honorary Fellow by the United Empire Loyalist Association of 
 Canada.\n\n
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