Everyday voices of the American Revolution come to St. Bonaventure Monday, March 23, as part of a series of programs to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.

Senior Lecturer Christopher Dalton will moderate a student research panel, “Everyday Voices and Revolution,” March 23 at 7 p.m. in Walsh Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.

This student research panel turns to the Revolution as it was actually lived. What did resistance sound like? How did politics enter the home? One student explores the world of sailors’ and commoners’ poetry and popular songs, showing how music at sea helped shape identity, protest and revolutionary feeling. Another examines the daily realities faced by Loyalist and Patriot women, revealing how domestic labor, family loyalty and survival became deeply political. By bringing together sound and household life, this panel invites us to reconsider the American Revolution not simply as a political rupture, but as a transformation of ordinary experience.

The panel will feature presenter Alex Payne speaking on “The Record of Thought of Oppressed People During the Age of Revolution” and Kayla Krupski, speaking on “Maintaining the Chaos: The Complexities of Domestic Life for Loyalist and Patriot Women Amidst the American Revolution – 1752-1789.”

Dalton, a senior lecturer in St. Bonaventure’s History Department, supervises student work in the Historical Methods and Historiography class.

Krupski is a junior history major from Hamburg, New York, with a minor in Classics. 

Payne is a junior Theology and Franciscan Studies and History double major from Shinglehouse, Pennsylvania, with a minor in Classics.

Other events in St. Bonaventure University’s “America’s 250 Series” include:

• Monday, March 30: “George Washington’s Shadow: Remembering and Contesting the Revolution,” Dr. Phillip Payne
• Monday, April 13: “Winning the War: Why American Victory was So Remarkable,” panel discussion with historians from Emerging Revolutionary War
• Monday, April 20: “Why Boston? A New Economic Interpretation of the American Revolution,” Dr. Stephen Pitt
• Monday, April 27: “The Revolution Today,” an open panel discussion

The “America’s 250 Series” is sponsored by the History Department, the Jandoli School of Communication, and Emerging Revolutionary War. For more information, contact Dr. Phil Payne at ppayne@sbu.edu.