Participant Info
- First Name
- Jessica
- Last Name
- Sheets
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA Pennsylvania
- jessicajsheets@outlook.com
- Affiliation
- U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (Archivist); Penn State Harrisburg (PhD Candidate, ABD)
- Website URL
- http://www.mdhs.org/underbelly/2018/10/25/scattered-across-the-globe-and-the-political-spectrum-the-tilghman-family-in-the-revolutionary-war/
- Keywords
- Revolutionary War, family divisions, civil war, patriots, loyalists, neutrals, historical memory
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I have been a Research Historian at the US Army Heritage and Education Center since Sep 2018. Prior to that I worked in the USAHEC archives for approximately 10 years. In December 2019, I defended my dissertation “‘No More Striving of Brother against Brother’: Family Divisions and Historical Memory of the Revolutionary War.” I will graduate from Penn State Harrisburg’s American Studies program in May 2020.
I was awarded a fellowship at the Maryland Historical Society for my dissertation research. I also conducted archival research in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston (SC).
I am currently serving as the graduate student representative for the Society for Military History (SMH). I have presented at SMH, Fort Ticonderoga, and more.
- Recent Publications
– “An ‘Inflexible Patriot’: Major James Armstrong Wilson and the Home He Left Behind,” Cumberland County History, 2012. [available online: http://gardnerlibrary.org/journal/inflexible-patriot-major-james-armstrong-wilson-and-home-he-left-behind]
– “The Redoubts at Yorktown,” Military Heritage, Dec 2012.
– “Siege of Yorktown, September-October 1781,” Military History, Oct/Nov 2009.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, Family, Libraries & Archives, Military, Public History
