1946 Mass Lynching in Monroe, Georgia
Anthony Pitch talked about his book, The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town. He spoke about the 1946 mass lynching of four African Americans in Monroe, Geo…
1,333 viewsAnthony Pitch talked about his book, The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town. He spoke about the 1946 mass lynching of four African Americans in Monroe, Geo…
1,333 viewsAnthony Pitch talked about his book Our Crime Was Being Jewish: Hundreds of Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories, in which he presents the accounts of 358 Holocaust survivors. He recounts …
1,057 viewsAnthony S. Pitch, author of The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814, talked about the attack during the War of 1812 that led to the only foreign occupation of the U.S. capita…
873 viewsOn June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain. On the occasion of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, historian Anthony Pitch, author of The Burning of Washington: The B…
1,345 viewsOn April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln as the president sat in the State Box in Ford’s Theatre during a performance of a play titled Our American Cousin. H…
2,045 viewsAnthony Pitch talked about his book "They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengeance (Steerforth; December 30, 2008), released…
353 viewsFord’s Theatre director Paul Tetreault and Anthony Pitch, historian and author of "They Have Killed Papa Dead!": The Road to Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln’s Murder, and the Rage for Vengea…
385 viewsHistorians spoke about George Washington’s efforts to design and build the White House and city planning for the District of Columbia.
724 viewsAnthony Pitch talked about the Presidency of James Madison and the British destruction of Washington, D.C. He spoke at and talked about the house in Brookfield, MD in which President Madison…
550 viewsMr. Pitch conducted an auto tour of former presidents' homes in the Washington, DC area.
584 viewsJames Billington talked about the importance of books in our lives. Various speakers spoke about the different rooms in the Library of Congress and the many interesting materials found in th…
314 viewsAt a Georgetown bookstore, Anthony Pitch discussed his book, "The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814". The book covers the history of the 1814 British campaign to occupy the…
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