Upcoming:

Friday, August 1, 2025 -Loudoun Museum, Leesburg, Virginia. Talk on Lafayette: Idealist General and book signing, 6:00 p.m. in conjunction with the museum’s “Lafayette & Loudoun: Lafayette's Visit and Legacy” exhibit. Free and open to the public in downtown Leesburg at 16 Loudoun St. SW. For more info, call 703-777-7427 or email info@loudounmuseum.org

Sunday, August 10, 2025 - Historic Oatlands Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia. “Lafayette’s Legacy: A Loudoun County Perspective” panel discussion, 2:00-4:00 p.m. with American Friends of Lafayette Executive Director Chuck Schwam, Lafayette Interpreter Mark Schneider, and James Monroe Interpreter Jay Harrison, and book signing.

20850 Oatlands Plantation Lane. Includes a beer & wine reception. For more info & tickets, go to: https://www.piedmontheritage.org/events/lafayette2025

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 - Museum of Culpeper History, Culpeper, Virginia. 6:30 p.m. talk on Lafayette: Idealist General and booksigning, in conjunction with “Culpeper Hosts a Hero: Lafayette in Culpeper” Exhibit. Free and open to the public. 113 S. Commerce St., Culpeper. 540-829-1749

Tuesday, September 8, 2025 - Colonial Dames XVII Century Jamestown Chapter, Merrifield, Virginia. Talk on Saving Monticello at monthly chapter meeting.

Saturday, September 13, 2025St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church, Dunwoody, Georgia. 8:15 a.m. Zoom talk on Saving Monticello

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 - Middleburg Library Advisory Board, Middleburg, Virginia. 6:00 p.m. talk on The Unlikely War Hero and book signing at the Emanuel Epispocal Church Parish House, 105 E. Washington St., Middleburg. Free and open to the public.

Sunday, September 28 -Fairfax Resolves SAR Chapter, Vienna, Virginia. Talk on Lafayette: Idealist General and book signing at monthly meeting.

Thursday, October 16, 2025 - Heritage Hunt Golf and Country Club, Gainesville, Va. Afternoon talk on The Unlikely War Hero and book signing.

Thursday, October 23, 2025 - Heritage Frederick, Frederick, Maryland. 5:30 p.m. talk on the life of Francis Scott Key and book signing. 24 East Church St., Frederick. 301-663-1188

Sunday, October 26, 2025 - Fauquier County Library, Warrenton, Virginia. 2:00 p.m. talk on The Unlikely War Hero and book signing. John Barton Payne Building, 5 Waterloo St, Warrenton, Va. Free and open to the public.

Saturday, November 8, 2025 - George Washington SAR Chapter, Alexandria, Virginia. Afternoon talk on The Unlikely War Hero, at monthly chapter meeting.

Monday, November 10, 2025 - The Glebe, Daleville, Virginia. Afternoon talk on The Unlikely War Hero and book signing.

Saturday, April 18, 2026 - Falls Church DAR Chapter, Falls Church, Virginia. Morning talk on The Unlikely War Hero and book signing at monthly chapter meeting.

Archived:

September 2014 live interview on CBS TV's This Morning Saturday on Francis Scott Key and "The Star-Spangled Banner."

June 2014 talk on Francis Scott Key at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

September 2020 livestream interview about The Levy Family and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello with Susan Stein at the Jefferson Library in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

January 2012 talk on the Marquis de Lafayette for the Great Lives Series at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia

July 2014 tour of the Monocacy National Battlefield Park in Frederick, Maryland, and Fort Stevens in Washington, D.C., the subject of Desperate Engagement, on C-SPAN's Book-TV

June 2019 Q&A about Ballad of the Green Beret with Sonja Williams of Biographers International Organization on the BIO Podcast

Events