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  • February 2020

    AHP’s Jay Dickey gave a Zoom lecture entitled “America’s Dutch Heritage: The Story of New Netherland.”

  • December 2020

    AHP’s Jay Dickey delivered a talk entitled “The Jamestowne Story.”

  • January 2021 (King Phillip)

    AHP’s Jay Dickey delivered a Zoom talk entitled “King Philip’s War: An American Tragedy.”

  • January 2021 (Wingfield)

    Jay Dickey gave a Zoom lecture entitled “Edward Maria Wingfield: The Forgotten Leader of Jamestowne.” February 2021: AHP’s Jay Dickey delivered a talk entitled “Before He Was a Traitor: Benedict Arnold and the Siege of Quebec.”

  • November 2021 (Fortune)

    Jay Dickey gave a presentation to the Nevada Mayflower Society entitled “The 400th Anniversary of the Fortune: The Forgotten Tale of the Second Ship to Arrive at Plymouth.”

  • Zoom lecture by Andrew Cotten

    AHP hosted a Zoom lecture by Andrew Cotten, an expert on the history of the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston, which served as the main meeting place of the leaders of the American rebellion against Great Britain in the years leading up to the American Revolution.   April 2023

  • American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

    Professor Caroline Winterer, Chairwoman of the Stanford University History Department, provided a thought-provoking account of how Americans in the 18th Century came to be "enlightened" - not as the European Enlightenment envisioned it, but in our own American way, with a powerful emphasis on the "pursuit of happiness" - a concept literally written into our Declaration of Independence. This sold-out event was held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacramento.

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    The Salem Witch Trials

    AHP hosted a special luncheon featuring guest speaker Rachel Christ-Doane, Director of Education of the Salem Witch Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Rachel is a frequent author and lecturer on the Salem witch trials and spook to us about one of the most tragic events in Colonial America in the late 17th century.

  • Children of the Light: The History and Genealogy of Quakerism in Early America

    President Jay Dickey gave a Zoom lecture to members and guests of the “Genealogy Lab” of the Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. The TMCC Genealogy Lab hosts weekly Zoom presentations by experts on a wide range of subject matters related to American history and genealogy. Jay’s talk was entitled “Children of the Light: The History and Genealogy of Quakerism in Early America.”