Explore the multiple ways enslaved African and African American chefs both influenced and created American cuisine. Drawing from archaeology, archival sources, oral history, recipes, and architecture, this talk will provide multiple ways to engage in culinary history with your students.

Presented by Dr. Kelley Fanto Deetz, Stratford Hall Historic Preserve

Explore traditional African beliefs and practices and the introduction of Christianity and Islam to African history. Then follow the impact of African religions on the transatlantic slave trade and the ability of African captives to retain their culture and religion, helping them survive slavery in the Americas.

Olaudah Equiano, autrement dit "Gustavus Vassa", par Daniel Orme, after W. Denton, Londres 1789, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D8546.

"The year is 1542 and His Majesty, King Henry, the Eighth of that Name, despite increasing age, is again engaged upon Royal Progress about His Realm. His Majesty is in contemplative mood with the events of recent years weighing heavily upon him: the annulment of his marriage to Aragon, the break with Rome, the dissolution of the Monasteries, the revolt in the North. The ramifications for His Majesty’s Realm, and for His people, have been great!"

Presented by John White and the Select Society Theater Company

In this interactive session, we’ll discuss strategies for using primary sources in the classroom. Included in the session are an analysis of a Dunmore’s Proclamation, the Fry-Jefferson map, and the Boston Massacre painting by Paul Revere.

In historic and modern Indigenous societies, women have always held positions of leadership and influence. Clan mothers, female chiefs, “Beloved Women,” and others were integral to decision making, governing and guidance. This presentation will provide an overview of historic and contemporary Indigenous women’s leadership and will highlight the biographies of female Native leaders such as Cockacoeske, Nonhelema, Nacy Ward, Wilma Mankiller, Susan Shown Harjo, and Deb Haaland.

Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation photo

The "Shot Heard Round the World" is a famous line from a poem, but where was that shot fired and what really happened on the first day of the American Revolution?  This program will dive into the intricate and sophisticated plans the people of Concord and Massachusetts had been planning for many months leading up to the first shots that were fired in Lexington and Concord. This program will tell the story of the first day of the American Revolution through the incredible objects in the Concord Museum’s collection that were there that day as the events unfolded. Using techniques of close-looking and object-based learning, this program will uncover the evidence and stories that these objects leave behind about the diverse people and events of this famous day.

Presented by the Concord Museum