Our final voice of the 2026 Conference belongs to the Pulitzer Prize-winning military historian RICK ATKINSON and his majestic The Revolution Trilogy, specifically the most-recently released second volume The Fate of the Day, which covers the years 1777-1780 when George Washington’s exhausted army struggled to hold on. Atkinson’s dramatic and detailed account offers a vivid portrait of General Washington’s crucial leaderhip and reminds us how brutally long the War for Independence actually was. Atkinson, who was featured in Ken Burns’s most recent documentary, will take us on to the battlefields and introduce us to the courageous commanders who led the fight and the often ragtag young soldiers—White, Black, and Indigenous—who fought and died under their command.

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