About the Presenter
Dillon L. Streifeneder is a historian of colonial America and the early American republic. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University, where his dissertation focused on state formation and governance in New York during the era of the American Revolution.
At Mount Vernon, he will be working on transitioning his dissertation into a book manuscript, focusing on the monumental challenges of waging the Revolutionary War that confronted the nascent revolutionary states. As Washington and his fellow officers of the Continental Army quickly discovered, their efforts to win independence were often confronted by the realities of having to work with obstinate local officials and the competing interests of local, state, and national level government that frustrated activist and energetic attempts at governance.