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Virtual Author Series featuring Stephen Brumwell
April 13, 2025 • VirtualThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty traces Arnold’s journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Stephen Brumwell’s research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold’s mystifying betrayal was […]
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Virtual Author Series featuring Serena Zabin
January 12, 2025 • ZoomThe Fort Ticonderoga Author Series features presentations by authors of books related to Colonial and Revolutionary War history. The story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death—is familiar to generations. But the history of the event has always obscured a fascinating truth: that the Massacre […]
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Twenty-Ninth Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War
May 30, 2025 - June 1, 2025 • HybridFort 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 […]
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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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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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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 Israel Putnam, a larger-than-life general, a gregarious tavern keeper and […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Fort Fever Series featuring Tabitha Hubbard
March 27, 2024 • ZoomThe 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 […]
