Dr. Philip C. Mead, an American historian specializing in the period of the

American Revolution The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolut ...

, is Chief Historian and Curator of the

Museum of the American Revolution The Museum of the American Revolution (formerly The American Revolution Center) is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania dedicated to telling the story of the American Revolution. The museum was opened to the public on April 19, 2017, the 242nd a ...

in Philadelphia. Mead served as an advising historian for exhibition developlment beginning in 2011, and became historian and curator in 2014. He co-curated the Museum's award-winning core exhibition, and helped to shape the media experiences and public programs. He then led the collections and exhibitions team through five special exhibitions, including most recently, ''When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776-1807'', which broke new ground by identifying the names of large numbers of women voters in early New Jersey. Mead earned a doctorate in American history from Harvard University in 2012. Mead's doctoral dissertation, ''Melancholy Landscapes: Writing Warfare in the American Revolution,'' was written under

Jill Lepore Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American ...

and draws on the diaries of 169 Revolutionary Army soldiers. Mead previously served as a lecturer at Harvard University from 2012-2014. In 2017, Mead discovered the only known period image of General George Washington's Revolutionary War tent in the field. In 2019, he was part of the team that discovered poll lists featuring the names of women and Black men who voted in New Jersey in the years following the Revolutionary War.

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