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Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
May 16, 2025 - May 18, 2025 • HybridFort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War May 16-18, 2025. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become the premier venue for historians on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across North America and Europe. Fort Ticonderoga […]
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Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium
April 5, 2025 • HybridThe King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents the Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium on Saturday, April 5, 2025. This program features practical strategies for expanding an improving your garden and landscape. We invite you to join us, whether you are an experiences gardener or just getting started, for helpful insights from garden experts who […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell
February 9, 2025 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The British march to Concord in April 1775 set off the Revolutionary War, but what exactly were the redcoats looking for? Looking at General Thomas Gage’s papers reveals that his main goal was to destroy four brass cannon that […]
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Winter Workshop Series: Quilted Petticoats
November 16, 2024 - November 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, examine details from surviving quilted petticoats, as well as period images and descriptions of these surprisingly common women’s garments. Begin your own worsted wool quilted petticoat, with your own period quilting pattern to secure the warm woolen batting that made these so popular for women in the 18th century.
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Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 25, 2025 • ZoomThe Fourteenth Annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” conference takes place virtually on January 25, 2025. We invite you to join us online for this conference on material culture spanning 1609-1815. This conference is only available online through Fort Ticonderoga’s Center for Digital History, streaming through Zoom. A laptop, tablet, or smartphone is required […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring John William Nelson
November 3, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent, author John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago’s portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous […]
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Winter Workshop Series: Brunswick & Hessian Regimental Coats
March 16, 2024 - March 17, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, learn the latest research on Brunswick and Hessian enlisted regimental coats as you build your own. Discover the unique details and differences between different states’ and regiments’ uniforms. This workshop is BYOL — bring your own lace– due to the specificity of these trimmings. Most regimental and campaign details can be […]
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Winter Workshop Series: 1770s Straight-bodied Coats
February 10, 2024 - February 11, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, examine details from surviving 1770s civilian coats, cutting, and begin assembly of your own. Practical wool coats that buttoned all the way down to the waist remained popular even as fashionable coats increasingly cut away along the front. Build one of these lined wool coats that were a mainstay of dress […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Michael E. Shay
October 20, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In The Whites of Their Eyes: The Life of Revolutionary War Hero Israel Putnam from Rogers’ Rangers to Bunker Hill, author Michael Shay recounts the life and times of Isreal Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and […]
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Winter Workshop Series: Men’s & Women’s Cloaks
December 2, 2023 • Fort TiconderogaIn this one-day workshop, build one of your choice of outwear; women’s cloak, sentry’s cloak, or horseman’s cloak. Explore some of the common details of these different forms of semi-fitted foul-weather wear. This workshop includes lunch, materials, sewing tools, and notions.
