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Nineteenth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution
September 22, 2023 - September 24, 2023 • HybridRegister Now! Downloadable Brochure This annual premier conference focused on the military, political, social, and material culture of the American Revolution regularly features scholars from across North America and beyond. Attendees can participate in person or join the conference from home via the Fort Ticonderoga Center for Digital History. Seminar Schedule (subject to change) Friday, […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Brady J. Crytzer
October 22, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In The Whiskey Rebellion: A Distilled History of an American Crisis, historian Brady J. Crytzer takes the reader on a journey through Western Pennsylvania following the routes of both the rebels and the United States Army to place this important […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Eugene Procknow
November 5, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. William Hunter, the son of a Revolutionary War British soldier, witnessed the terrors of combat and capture and penned the only surviving Revolutionary account written by a child of a British soldier. Remarkably, Hunter immigrated to America and became […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Charles Mayhood
August 13, 2023 • Fort TiconderogaThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. In his book Québec Under Siege: French Eye-Witness Accounts from the Campaign of 1759, Charles Mayhood explores the events surrounding the siege and capitulation of the city, as recorded by 4 individuals in their journals and memoirs. These individuals include an artillery captain, a […]
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Winter Workshop Series: British Trousers & American Overalls
January 27, 2024 - January 28, 2024 • Fort TiconderogaIn this two-day workshop, build a pair of fitted linen trousers used by the British Army and its German Auxiliaries, as well as many Continental Army units from 1777 onward. Stout linen sheeting, sheeting, and tent linen are available for various British Army portrayals. Striped linen ticking is available for Brunswick soldiers serving in 1777. […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring David Price
January 14, 2024 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The Battle of Harlem Heights is a largely unappreciated milestone in American military history. It was an encounter on upper Manhattan Island on September 16, 1776, that marked the first successful battlefield outcome achieved by George Washington’s troops in […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Don Hagist
July 30, 2023 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Fort Ticonderoga’s history. During the American Revolution, British light infantry and grenadier battalions figured prominently in almost every battle and campaign. They are routinely mentioned in campaign studies, usually with no context to explain what these battalions were. In an army that employed regiments as the […]
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Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 20, 2024 • ZoomThe Thirteenth Annual “Material Matters: It’s in the Details” conference takes place online on January 20, 2024. 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 Webinars. A laptop, tablet, or smartphone is […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Andrew Wehrman
February 11, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution is a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States. […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Jack Kelly
March 10, 2024 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. In his new book God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man, author Jack Kelly brings the smell of gunpowder to every page in this riveting account of Benedict Arnold’s military career. Kelly’s account of […]
