Unity Moravian Church’s Women’s Fellowship invites you to a Celebration of America’s 250th on June 20th @ 12PM! Our speaker will be Dr. John Ruddiman who will present on Early Moravians in America: Traugott Bagge’s 1783 “Sketch of the American Revolution.”
John A. Ruddiman is an Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His first book, Becoming Men of Some Consequence: Youth and Military Service in the Revolutionary War (2014), explores the lives of young men in the Continental army. That project has led to essays on ‘General Orders’ and orderly books in the Continental Army, George Rogers Clark’s campaign in Illinois, Samuel Shaw’s post-war experiences in China, and Traguott Bagge’s work as a historian of the Revolution for North Carolina’s Moravians. He is currently at work on his next book – Is This the Land of Liberty? – which examines enslaved Black Americans’ changing relationships with soldiers during the War of American Independence. Across these projects, his work as a historian of Revolutionary America explores how people built their lives, reshaped their communities, and constructed meaning for themselves and for posterity.