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

Fort Ticonderoga presents the Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War over three days, Friday-Sunday, May 30-June 1, 2025. Since its beginning in 1996, the War College has become a top 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.

Attendees can participate in person or join the conference from home via the Fort Ticonderoga Center for Digital History.

War College Schedule:

Friday, May 30, 2025

• 5:30-6:30pm Reception
• 7:00pm Opening Session—Cuba to Champlain: Enslavement and Empire, Dr. Matthew Keagle, Fort Ticonderoga Curator

 Saturday, May 31, 2025

• 9:00am Welcome—Beth Hill, President and CEO, Fort Ticonderoga.
• 9:15-9:45am “Slavery and Captivity in the Anglo-Abenaki Wars”—Joanne Jahnke-Wegner, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• 10:00-10:30am “Captive women, captive souls: French conversion tactics in the Seven Years’ War”–Jenifer Ishee
• 10:45-11:15am “I enlisted myself into His Majesties Service”: Analyzing Reuben Smith’s Journal, 1759-1760—Lisa Johnson, independent historian
• 11:30am-1:45pm Lunch Break (Box lunch from America’s Fort Café included).
• 1:00-1:30pm Book Signing at the Museum Store in the Log House.
• 2:00-2:30pm British and French Rivalry in India—Mark Briskey, University of New South Wales (Australia)
• 2:45-3:15pm New Perspectives on the Campaign in Bengal, 1756-1757—Mark Danley, Princeton Research Forum
• 3:30-5:00pm Fort Ticonderoga Museum, King’s Garden, and Museum Store open.
• 5:00pm Dinner at America’s Fort Café (pre-registration only).

Sunday, June 1, 2025

• 9:00-9:30am “Are you not the Soldiers of Christ?”—J. Logan Tomlin, Fairmont State University
• 9:45-10:15am “Agriculture and Environment in North America’s Seven Years’ War—John Peter Antonacci, SUNY Binghamton
• 10:30-11:00am Supply Fleet Requirements and Shortfalls on Lake Champlain—Steven Woods, independent historian
• 11:15-11:45am Workers of War & Empire: Canadian Laborers during the British Conquest (1754-1763)—Richard H. Tomczak, Stony Brook University
• 12:00pm Lunch (Box lunch from America’s Fort Café included).