Ronald S. Gibbs: "The American Revolution Told in Ten Maps”

Sponsored in partnership with California, Chicago, New York, Philip Lee Phillips, Rocky Mountain, and Texas Map Societies.

Location: Zoom

Time:  7:00 PM ET/ 6:00 PM CT/ 5:00 PM MT/ 4:00 PM PT

Title: “The American Revolution Told in Ten Maps”

Speaker: Ronald S Gibbs, MD, President California Map Society, Clinical Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Summary: To celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution, this presentation will explore the political and military aspects of the war, using ten period maps from the Gibbs’ family’s collection. At the outset, the Americans were given little chance to gain independence against the mighty British forces. Yet, underlying the British power, there were telling weaknesses. Ron will report the key actions of the eight-years-long war and then analyze why the British lost and the Americans won.

Bio: Ronald S. Gibbs, MD grew up in Philadelphia and developed a life-long passion for the American Revolution, cartography, and medical history.  During medical school, he researched 18th century medicine in London and won the History of Medicine Prize at graduation from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is President of the California Map Society. After medical school, he became an obstetrician-gynecologist. Early in his medical career, he served as a Major in the Army Medical Corps at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, DC.  He is Clinical Professor and Knowles Distinguished Scholar at Stanford University and was formerly Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado. A nationally known expert on infections in pregnancy, he has written hundreds of medical articles and some on history; he has lectured nationally on medicine and on history. He has provided service to the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control, March of Dimes, and numerous other professional organizations and medical journals. He lives in San Francisco near his children and grandchildren. The Long Shot: The Secret History of 1776, his first novel, was published in 2020.  The  sequel, The Rogue’s Plot, The Untold Story  of 1777, was published in 2024. His website is: http://ronaldsgibbs.com

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