Loyalist Legacies: Presenting the Loyalists, Past and Present

Join us at the Old Meeting House Museum on Tuesday, June 3rd at 11:30 am for a RARE presentation by two of North America’s leading United Empire Loyalists historians, Todd Braisted and Matthew Skic.
Admission is free but donations help us offer even more interesting programming at the Barrington Museum Complex!
Todd Braisted is an author and independent researcher specializing in Loyalist studies during the American Revolution. He has published over sixty books and journal articles on a variety of period subjects, including the 2016 book Grand Forage 1778. His website royalprovincial.com, is the leading site for Loyalist research since it debuted in 2000. Todd has likewise appeared on such television shows as History Detectives and Who Do You Think You Are? Over the past four decades, he has served as president of the Bergen County Historical Society and the Brigade of the American Revolution and is a Fellow in the Company of Military Historians. He likewise serves as a member of RevolutionNJ, the state’s advisory council for the Semiquincentennial and is editor-in-chief of the Papers of Francis Lord Rawdon for the South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission. In 2017, Todd wrote the National Park Service Battlefield Studies Preservation Report for Fort Lee, New Jersey. Todd has taught numerous classes for Fort Ticonderoga’s National Endowment for the Humanities Teacher’s Program and Teacher’s Institute. He has lectured extensively on Loyalists and other subjects across the United States and Canada.
Matthew Skic serves as the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. He joined the Museum’s staff in 2016 after graduating from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Since the Museum opened in 2017, Matthew has curated multiple award-winning exhibitions including Cost of Revolution: The Life and Death of an Irish Soldier and Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia. He is the project director for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition on the 250-year global impact of the Declaration of Independence and the lead curator for the Museum’s 2027 exhibition about Loyalists.