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Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California |
Programs
Future Events
The Fall Court of the California Society will be held on Sunday, September 29, 2024,
at the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena. The speaker will be Steven W. Hackel, Ph.D.
The 130th General Court of the California Society will be held on Sunday, January 19, 2025,
at the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena. The speaker to be announced.
Past Speakers
Speakers at Society of Colonial Wars in the State of California
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June 23, 2024 |
Charles Churchill Read Attorney |
The Dudleys and Bradstreets: Colonial Governors, the First New World Poet, and a Salem Witch Trial judge |
| January 14, 2024 Valley Hunt Club |
Matthew S. Bowdish, M.D. |
“Jamestown: Principles of 17th Century Medicine” |
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| October 1, 2023 Valley Hunt Club |
Laszlo Montgomery, Director of Research, Huntington |
"The History of the Tea Trade: From the Age of Exploration through the First Decades of the United States" |
June 4, 2023 |
Susan Juster, Ph.D. Director of Research, |
"Where's God in the Constitution?" Church and State from the Colonial Era to the Revolution" |
| January 15, 2023 Valley Hunt Club |
Peter C. Mancall, Ph.D Professor of History USC |
"The Second Anglo-Powhatan War & the Colonization of Virginia" |
| October 15, 2022 Huntington Library |
Karin Fielding Fielding Collection, Huntington |
A guided tour of the Fielding Collection by Karin Fielding |
| June 4, 2022 The Pacific Club |
Stewart Davenport, Ph.D. Professor of History, Pepperdine |
"The Beginning of the End for the First Gritish Empire: Colonia Resistance. 1763-1766" |
| January 23, 2022 Valley Hunt Club |
Berte Pfleger, Ph.D Professor of History, SCU LA |
"Stories of German Immigration in the 18th Century" |
| September 12, 2021 Valley Hunt Club |
Stewart Davenport, Ph.D Professor of History, Pepperdine |
"The Americanization of Europe and the Europeanizaton of America: Warfare after 1739" |
| June 6, 2021 Valley Hunt Club |
Olga Tsapina, Ph.D. Curator at Huntington Library |
"Papers of James Mercer, and the Seven Years War" |
| September 20, 2020 via Zoom |
Prof Daniel Livesay
Claremont McKenna College |
"Pandemics in Colonial American History" |
| January 26, 2020 Valley Hunt Club |
Prof. Katie A. Moore UCSB Visiting Scholar, Huntington Library |
“Paper Money in Early America" |
| September 8, 2019 Valley Hunt Club |
Prof. Robert C. Ritchie Former Director of Research, Huntington Library |
“Leisler’s Rebellion” |
| June 23, 2019 Valley Hunt Club |
Prof. Stewart Davenport Pepperdine University |
“Bacon’s Rebellion” |
| January 27, 2019 Valley Hunt Club |
Prof. Peter C. Mancall University of Southern California |
“The First Battle for New England” |
| September 16, 2018 Valley Hunt Club |
Donald R. Friary Pres., Colonial Society of Massachusetts Former Director, Historic Deerfield, Mass. |
"Punch Drinking in the 18th Century” |
| June 3, 2018 Valley Hunt Club |
Prof. James Sidbury Rice University |
“Black Soldiers in Colonial and Revolutionary North America” |
| February 3, 2018 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Bruce G. Merritt Governor, SCW-CA |
“The Deerfield Massacre of 1704" |
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September 16, 2017 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Prof. Birte Pfleger CSULA |
“Warning Out Strangers: New Insights into the 18th Century New England Poverty and Welfare System” |
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May 6, 2017 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Prof. Michaela Crawford Reaves California Lutheran College |
“Salem: Was it Witchcraft?” |
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February 4, 2017 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Prof. Carla G. Pestana UCLA |
“Piracy in Colonial America” |
| September 24, 2016 Huntington Library |
Prof. Woody Holton University of South Carolina |
“Unknown Origins of the American Revolution” |
| June 18, 2016 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Prof. Woody Holton University of South Carolina |
“Unknown Origins of the American Revolution” |
| April 30, 2016 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Prof. Julianna Barr
Duke University |
“Mapping Indian Power in European Cartography of the Americas” |
| January 16, 2016 Los Angeles Athletic Club |
Prof. Birte Pfleger CSULA |
"Language Matters: How Relying on Published Translations Can Obscure Original Meanings” |
Past Speakers