May 2025
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18

Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War

May 16, 2025 - May 18, 2025 Hybrid

Fort 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 […]

February 2025
Sun

9

Virtual Author Series featuring J. L. Bell

February 9, 2025 Virtual

The 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 […]

January 2025
Sat

25

Virtual Material Matters: It’s in the Details

January 25, 2025 Zoom

The 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 […]

November 2024
Sun

3

Virtual Author Series featuring John William Nelson

November 3, 2024 Virtual

The 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 […]

October 2024
Sun

20

Virtual Author Series featuring Michael E. Shay

October 20, 2024 Virtual

The 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 […]

April 2024
Wed

24

Fort Fever Series featuring Cameron Green

April 24, 2024

The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga Director of Interpretation, Cameron Green, and explore the community that developed around Ticonderoga before the American Revolution. Discover what we know about these early settlers and how the American War for Independence effected their livelihood. Your participation in this […]

February 2024
Wed

28

Fort Fever Series featuring Dr. Matthew Keagle

February 28, 2024

The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Dr. Matthew Keagle, Fort Ticonderoga Curator, to preview the 2024 special exhibition highlighting “The Power of Place.” The American Revolution and the War of Independence played out across a vast geography. The Revolution made an impact in all corners of the […]

March 2024
Wed

27

Fort Fever Series featuring Tabitha Hubbard

March 27, 2024 Zoom

The Fort Fever Series is a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga Collections Manager, Tabitha Hubbard, as she highlights the incredible strides Collections staff have made in documenting, preserving, and making accessible Ticonderoga’s world-class collections. In the last few years, the Collections Department has made momentous progress in cataloging, inventorying, and […]

May 2024
Fri

17

TO
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Twenty-Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War

May 17, 2024 - May 19, 2024 Hybrid

Fort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Eighth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 17-19, 2024. Since its beginning in 1996, this premier seminar focuses on subjects related to the Seven Years’ War in North America and beyond, drawing speakers and participants from across North America and Europe.   Attendees can […]

January 2024
Wed

24

Fort Fever Series featuring Stuart Lilie

January 24, 2024

The Fort Fever Series are a virtual series presented by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Stuart Lilie, Vice President of Public History, to explore the world and demise of horse, the true cavalry in the 18th-century British Army. Discover this unique shift in British mounted soldiers, its reverberations in military fashion, arms, and the lexicon of cavalry across the Atlantic […]