Conversations Live: A Special Conversation on “The American Revolution”

Jared Frederick, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor of History
Penn State Altoona

Dr. Jared Frederick is the author of numerous books, including Dispatches of D-Day, Hang Tough, Fierce Valor, and Into the Cold Blue. He has appeared on PBS, C-SPAN, and Turner Classic Movies. A former seasonal park ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Frederick is now the host of Reel History on YouTube, host of WPSU’s Past PA, and is a professor of history at Penn State Altoona.

Friederike Baer, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Penn State Abington

Friederike Baer is an award-winning author and Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University Abington College. Her scholarship focuses on the American Revolutionary War and Early American Republic. Her publications include the books The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia’s German Community, 1790-1830, which was awarded the St. Paul, Biglerville Prize in American Lutheran History, and Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, which was honored with the American Roundtable of Philadelphia Annual Book Award, Inaugural American Battlefield Trust Prize for History Honorable Mention, and Society of the Cincinnati Prize. Dr. Baer served as a historical advisor and interviewee for Ken Burns’s film The American Revolution.

Brady Crytzer
Lecturer of History, Robert Morris University
Associate Editor, Journal of the American Revolution

Brady J. Crytzer teaches history at Robert Morris University. He is the winner of the 2023 Judge Robert K. Woltz History Award. A specialist of the Frontier History of North America, Crytzer is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Revolution and the author of eight books.Crytzer has been featured on Fox News, NBC Peacock, C-SPAN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Sirius XM, and USA Today.

Christopher A. Thrasher, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, History
Penn State

Christopher Thrasher is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the Pennsylvania State University. He studies Native American, colonial, and early U.S. history. His dissertation considers the Revolutionary War period from a unique perspective by centering Muscogee Confederacy history and Muscogee diplomacy with the Cherokee Nation. Previously, he attended the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida, studying Yucatec Maya history.