The Bidwell House Museum is excited to present the second of two off-season Zoom programs about the Revolutionary War era, a timely topic in 2026, the 250^th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For this last talk on March 26, we will be joined by Donald F. Johnson who will present Military Occupation in Revolutionary America. The experience of military occupation shaped the course of the American Revolution for tens of thousands of colonial Americans living in port cities and other areas controlled by the British Army. This talk explores how those experiences transformed ordinary peoples’ attitudes towards their government and the Revolution, and ultimately contributed to the defeat of the British Empire in America. Donald F. Johnson is a historian of popular politics during the era of the American Revolution and associate professor of history at North Dakota State University. In 2023 he published “Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution” with the University of Pennsylvania Press. The lecture will be held on Zoom.