Upcoming Events

The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features programs led by Fort Ticonderoga museum staff who share their latest research and cutting-edge discoveries. For Black History Month this talk will explore the role of men of African descent in the military experience of the 18th century through the objects they made and used. Race is rarely coded […]

The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features presentations by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the detective work of recreating historic shoes with Artificer Shoemaker, Kevin Maher. Discover how the wreck of the British sloop Boscawen preserved shoes at the bottom of Lake Champlain and what these shoes tell us about British soldiers' […]

The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features presentations by Fort Ticonderoga staff. President William Howard Taft came to Fort Ticonderoga on July 6, 1909, as part of the Champlain Tercentenary Celebrations. Thousands flocked to the Ticonderoga peninsula to see the President and commemorate the 300th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s arrival on the lake that […]

The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features presentations by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga Director of Archeology Margaret Staudter for an exploration of artifact highlights excavated prior to the building of the Mars Education Center in 2008. These fascinating objects represent the material lives of the French, British, and American individuals who lived at […]

The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features presentations by Fort Ticonderoga staff. While holsters are commonly imagined as a personal accoutrement, their origin and reality in the long 18th century was part of saddlery. Join Fort Ticonderoga Vice President of Public History Stuart Lilie to explore the common details of 18th-century holsters and their rapid […]

The Fort Ticonderoga Fort Fever Series features presentations by Fort Ticonderoga staff. Join Fort Ticonderoga VP of Collections & Digital Production Miranda Peters as she highlights the incredible work being undertaken by museum staff to document, preserve, and make accessible Ticonderoga's world-class museum collections. Fort Ticonderoga is currently cataloging, inventorying, and rehousing the museum's collections. […]

October 15-17, 2021 Fort Ticonderoga celebrates 200 years of preservation on the Ticonderoga peninsula with “Historically Situated: History, Memory, and Place,” a special virtual conference focused on the historic preservation in North America, including historical perspective and contemporary issues. Keynote Speaker: Fort Ticonderoga: Ruin, Reconstruction, and the Making of a Historical Landscape—While Fort Ticonderoga’s role […]

Fort Ticonderoga presents the Seventeenth Annual Seminar on the American Revolution September 24-26, 2021, online. This annual premier seminar focused on the military, political, social, and material culture history of the American Revolution features scholars from across North America and Europe.