Saratoga National Historical Park hosts Fall Lecture Series

Date:
October 2, 2024
Contact:Garrett Cloer, 518-670-2980

Stillwater, N.Y. -Saratoga National Historical Park and the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield will soon welcome a series of distinguished scholars and historians for its annual Fall Lecture Series. These speakers will discuss a variety of topics to help us examine and better understand our shared histories as we approach the 250th anniversaries of the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States. Reservations are required and may be made by emailing us at e-mail us. The schedule is as follows:

Inheriting the Revolution: Antebellum African American Pathways in Saratoga County
Thursday, October 24
6:30 pm
Visitor Center
How did the American Revolution affect African Americans in Old Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, and their environs? Discover the major avenues they pursued in the early national period and in the years prior to the Civil War as they sought to build lives in the new nation. Presented by Dr. Myra Armstead, the Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies Emerita at Bard College.

Reservations are required by emailing e-mail us. Please include the date of the program you wish to attend. The Fall Lecture Series is presented with support from the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.

Picturing History: A Primer for the Batter Understanding of Fine Art during the Era of the American Revolution

Thursday, October 31
6:30 pm
Visitor Center
Historians have traditionally shown surprisingly little interest in the artworks related to their periods of study. This is not to say that artworks are ignored - history books are often replete with period pictures meant to showcase the themes discussed in print. Unfortunately, these artworks are often poorly chosen or are little more than an afterthought. This program explores the different forms of 2-dimentional 18th century artwork media, spurs awareness of pitfalls, and investigates shocking deceptions related to Revolutionary War drawings and paintings. Presenter Eric Schnitzer is a park ranger at Saratoga National Historical Park.

Reservations are required by emailing e-mail us. Please include the date of the program you wish to attend. The Fall Lecture Series is presented with support from the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.

Washington's War Time Cooks

Thursday, November 7
6:30 pm
Visitor Center
Although there is only one "Washington's Headquarters" in New York, there are numerous signs around the region stating, "Washington slept here." Which means he also ate there. Typically, however, not food prepared by the household's cook, but by his own staff, led by Hannah Till, an enslaved woman, and her husband Isaac. Who were they? What skills may they have had? Join us as we look at current research on Hannah & Isaac and ponder what it may have been like to travel and cook around the region for Washington.

Speaker Lavada Nahon is a culinary historian with 30 years public history experience. She focuses on New Netherland and New York, 17th through 19th centuries, specifically, the lives and cultures of Africans and their descendants, enslaved and free, and is the first Interpreter of African American History for New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Bureau of Historic Sites.

Reservations are required by emailing e-mail us. Please include the date of the program you wish to attend. The Fall Lecture Series is presented with support from the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.

From the Battlefield to the Stage: The Many Lives of General John Burgoyne

Thursday, November 14
6:30 pm
Visitor Center
Norman S. Poser speaks on his recently published book, From the Battlefield to the Stage: The Many Lives of General John Burgoyne. Burgoyne is chiefly known to history for surrendering his army to the American forces at Saratoga in 1777, an event that turned out to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War.Both on and off the battlefield, Burgoyne led an action-packed life: as a young man, he eloped with the daughter of an English earl; a devotee of the theatre, he wrote plays that were successfully produced on the London stage; a Member of Parliament for thirty years, he fought corruption in India and advocated for religious toleration; he was welcome in London's elite gambling clubs and fashionable drawing rooms Norman S. Poser, a retired law professor, is also the author of two other non-fiction books about eighteenth-century England. Reservations are required by emailing e-mail us. Please include the date of the program you wish to attend. The Fall Lecture Series is presented with support from the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.

The Compleat Victory: Leadership and Strategy in the Saratoga Campaign of 1777

Tuesday, November 19
6:30 pm
Visitor Center
When British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga on New York's Lake Champlain with unexpected ease in July of 1777, it looked as if it was a matter of time before they would break the rebellion in the North. Less than three and a half months later, American defenders forced Burgoyne to surrender his entire army. Discover how British plans were undone by a combination of faulty military strategy and superior American leadership. Presented by Colonel (Ret.) Kevin Weddle, Ph.D., a Distinguished Fellow and the former Elihu Root Cahir of Military Studies at the US Army War College.

Reservations are required by emailing e-mail us. Please include the date of the program you wish to attend. The Fall Lecture Series is presented with support from the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield.

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About Saratoga National Historical Park: This unit of the National Park Service preserves, protects and interprets the sites associated with the battles, siege and surrender of the British forces at Saratoga. The park encompasses five sites including the Saratoga Battlefield, General Philip Schuyler's House, Victory Woods, the Saratoga Monument and Sword Surrender Site totaling 3,579 acres. For more information about Saratoga National Historical Park, please call the Visitor Center at (518) 670-2985, visit www.nps.gov/sara or find the park on Facebook or Twitter @SaratogaNHP.
About the National Park Service: More than 20,000 National Park Service employees care for more than 400 national park sites and work with communities across the nation to help preserve local history and create close-to-home recreational opportunities. Learn more at www.nps.gov, and on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.

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