Quaff and Quill: A Book Talk with Lauren Duval

Historian Lauren Duval talks about her new award-winning book, The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence (2025).

Prior to the American Revolution, the urban centers of colonial North America had little direct experience of war. With the outbreak of violence, British forces occupied every major city, invading the most private of spaces: the home. By closely considering the dynamics of the household—how people moved within it, thought about it, and wielded power over it—The Home Front reveals the ways in which occupation fundamentally upended the structures of colonial society and created opportunities for unprecedented economic and social mobility.

Dr. Lauren Duval is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. She is a historian of early North America and the Atlantic World, specializing in women’s and gender history and the era of the American Revolution. She earned her PhD from American University in Washington, D.C.

Light refreshments will be served.

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Presented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association.

This program is produced with support from the “Common Sense and the Constitution: Civic Engagement in the Spirit of 1776” initiative from the American History and Civics Education – Seminars (AHC-Seminars) Program at the Department of Education.