On September 9, 2025 we featured Brian DeLay, Ph.D., Professor and Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at UC Berkeley. His lecture, "Dam-Breaking: The arms trade and American Revolutions," discussed the history and complexity of the arms trade in the independence era of 1775–1825. DeLay is a scholar of 18th- and 19th-century North America, specializing in transnational, borderlands, and Native American histories.

On September 23, 2024 we heard from Friederike Baer, Ph.D., Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. She presented "Incomprehensible Friends and Rebellious Enemies: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War."

On March 14, 2023 we welcomed Boston College law professor and award-winning author Mary Sarah Bilder to present our annual Society of the Cincinnati Lecture. Bilder discussed her latest book, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution."

On October 17, 2023 we heard from Matthew Rainbow Hale, Ph.D. Hale, associate professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He presented "The Revolutionary Invention of the American 'Democrat.'"

Mary Beth Norton, Ph.D., presented 1774: The Long Year of Revolution [video].

George Munro, Ph.D., presented America's Quest for a Russian Ally [video].