Port Hampton Lecture Series
Monday evenings, 7:00 PM
Members free of charge
Non-members,
$3.00
Memberships Available at the Door
Call
757-727-1610 for more information
MONDAY,
MAY 5, 2008
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L. Newby-Alexander, Assoc. Prof. of History, Norfolk State University
"Laying
Freedom's Groundwork: Hampton on the Eve of Emancipation"
MONDAY,
JUNE 2, 2008
Dr. Garrett Fesler,
Senior Archaeologist, James River Institute for
Archaeology presents:
"Archaeology at the Mallory
Plantation: Rural Elizabeth City in the 17th and 18th
Centuries"
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
8, 2008
Dr. Scott Nelson, College of William
and Mary,
presents:
"Hardtack and Canned
Pork: How the Union Army Filled a Soldier's Habersack and Reshaped a Nation"
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Professor Wythe Holt,
Emeritus
Professor, University of Alabama Law School "The dreadful night of ''
Shock and Awe: Why the federal government put down the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794
so harshly"
MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 3, 2008
Dr. Ed Ayers President of the University of Richmond
"Aftermath: Living with the Consequences of the Civil War"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008
Bill Barker and Steve Holloway,
Historical
Interpreters, Colonial Williamsburg
"Jefferson and Adams
Debate: The Argument Continues" and so Does the Friendship"
Mission
The Hampton History Museum serves to increase the awareness and understanding of the history of Hampton by maintaining an educational and research center for the collection, exhibition, interpretation, preservation and promotion of the vast historic resources of the City.
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