THURSDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2025
Arranged in conjunction with the California Map Society
Location: Zoom, 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; and Thomas Paper, Vice President California Map Society
(Northern Califormia).
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 are 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
18 th 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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When: Nov 13, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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