This is not your typical one–hour high school history lesson. Learn all about Marquis de Lafayette at a Philly History Popup with special guest Jocelyn Jones She will join host Cara Schneider Bongiorno and share the remarkable story of researching her great-great-great-great grandfather — a free, African-American colonial toolmaker, who served in the Continental Army and was in the presence of both U.S. President George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette was a French aristocrat, a general in the American Revolutionary War, and a leader of the Garde nationale during the French Revolution. Learn about how Jones began the research about her family’s place in history, and what it revealed about her heritage. In 1824-25, Marquis de Lafayette revisited the United States, the burgeoning country that he assisted during the American Revolution in 1777. One of Lafayette connections to Philadelphia was that he was greeted heroically at Independence Hall. Free, 6 p.m. EST to 7 p.m. EST. Corinthian Gardens, 2050 Brown St. in Fairmount. Enter the garden on Brown Street near Corinthian Avenue alongside the Eastern State Penitentiary. Register in advance: phillyhistorypopups.com.