Click the button below for access to the June 6, 2024 presentation by author, historian, and journalist Russell Shorto, in which he discusses the complexity of our region in the mid-1600s. The link to access this recording will expire on June 6, 2025.

Click the button below for access to the May 30, 2024 presentation by our own Tour & Interpretation Manager, Eddie Moran, who guides attendees through an array of 17th century documents to reveal the powerful story of Anthony and Susanna, two enslaved Africans purchased by Louis Dubois in late 1673, and their tale of agency and resistance.

Click the button below for access to the May 14, 2024 presentation by our own curatorial staff: Josephine Bloodgood, Director of Curatorial and Preservation Affairs, Donna Dixon, Digital Librarian and Project Manager, and Beth Patkus, Archivist and Librarian. In this talk, an overview of the joint HHS and NEH project and its significance in local, state, and national history is provided, and the grant process is discussed. How to navigate and search the New Paltz Historic Documents online collection, including for recently translated documents, is also discussed. 

Click the button below for access to the January 23, 2024 presentation by our own Tours and Interpretation Manager, Eddie Moran, regarding findings from research undertaken in the last two years on the Old Huguenot Burying Ground and the evolution of how we have engaged with it as historians, as a community, and as an organization.

Click the button below for access to the November 30, 2023 presentation by J Michael Smith, regarding a 1738 American Indian Deed, recently discovered by Historic Huguenot Street, for the land and creek called Packanasinck. This deed provides ethnohistorical material for a discussion of the Native participants mentioned.

Click the button below for access to the November 19, 2023 presentation by Dr. Jaap Jacobs & Julie van den Hout, who translated part of the manuscript collection of HHS, which focuses on how the translated documents shed light on economic and religious aspects of daily life in New Paltz in the 1700s.

Click the button below for access to the February 23, 2023 presentation by Dr. Stephen M. Davis, which highlights some of the major personages and events surrounding three centuries of violence and resistance in French Huguenot history.

Click the button below for a special virtual presentation by Josephine Bloodgood, HHS Director of Curatorial and Preservation Affairs and Carol Johnson, HHS Trustee and Coordinator of the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at Elting Memorial Library, highlighting two paintings by 19th-century American portrait artist, Ammi Phillips, that were stolen and missing from HHS for fifty years.

Click the button below for access to the May 19, 2022 presentation by J. Michael Smith in which methodologies for identifying named individuals found in treaty minutes and land cessions, as well as account books of Dutch merchants recording trade with American Indians are discussed.

Click the button below for access to the May 12, 2022 presentation by Dr. Kendra Taira Field which explores W.E.B. Du Bois, the family historian and genealogist. In spite of the scale and scope of this private work, we have yet to fully engage with W.E.B. Du Bois, the genealogist, the subject of this talk.

Click the button below for access to the April 19, 2022 presentation by Dr. Tessa Murdoch, based on her recently published book, Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Arts and Culture, about the extraordinary cultural contribution made by Huguenot families in the British Isles, who were part of the diaspora of over 200,000 refugees that left France in the late 17th century to join communities already established in exile.

Click the button below for access to the February 24, 2022 presentation by Dr. Owen Stanwood, author of The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2020)