Restoring the Importance of Our American History...Understanding it Better
Friday, March 28 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 30, 2025 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $345
Conference + Bus Tour: $520HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
“America’s Premier Conference on the American Revolution – Always In-Person, Never on Zoom”™
Friday, March 15 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 17, 2024 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $345HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
“America’s Premier Conference on the American Revolution”
“Always In-Person, Never on Zoom”
250th Anniversary Celebration Tour
Saturday, May 10, 2025 (8am to 5pm)
Led by: Jim Rowe and Bruce Venter
Departure: Hampton Inn, Bennington, VT
Tour Registration: $175.00
This year America’s History, LLC will kick off our country’s 250th anniversary of the American Revolution by offering a special one-day bus tour following the route of the Green Mountain Boys along with their comrades from Connecticut and Massachusetts under the leadership of Ethan Allen. This tour will be on the actual date of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga 250 years ago. It will also coincide with some special anniversary activities planned by Fort Ticonderoga.
Our tour will start in Bennington, Vermont, the proverbial headquarters of the “Bennington Mob” otherwise known as the Green Mountain Boys. We’ll discuss the major characters we’ll meet on today’s tour, plus provide background on the Hampshire Grants dispute between New England settlers led by Ethan Allen and New York officials. At Bennington we’ll set the stage for what happened on May 10, 1775. In Bennington, we’ll see several landmark sites associated with Ethan Allen like the Catamount Tavern, as the plot to capture Fort Ticonderoga unfolds
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Wednesday, September 10 (7pm) to Saturday, September 13 (5pm)
Led by Gary Ecelbarger
HQ: King of Prussia, PennsylvaniaRegistration fee: $675.00
The Philadelphia Campaign has undergone a Renaissance in the 21st Century with numerous articles, essays, monographs and books dedicated to the events surrounding the great Colonial city during the fall of 1777. The knowledge obtained from this new research has drastically altered our understanding of the personalities contributing to the campaign, the battles of the period and the decisions and movements between those battles. America’s History LLC, will take advantage of this updated history to provide a one-of-a-kind tour experience during the 248th anniversary of this fall classic, led by one of the campaign’s more prolific scholars and guides. [Read more…]
Friday, September 19, 2025 – 8am to 5pm
Leaving from Fort Ticonderoga, NY
Our Tour Leaders: Chris Sabick and Bruce Venter
Registration Fee: $175
Fort Ticonderoga and America’s History will partner again this year to offer a one-day Revolutionary War tour in connection with the Fort’s xxx Annual American Revolution Seminar. Led by Chris Sabick and Bruce Venter, the tour departs from Fort Ticonderoga’s parking lot at 8 a.m. and includes an interpretation of the battle of Valcour Island from a nearby site, a visit to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and a boat ride thru the Narrows of Lake Champlain.
This tour takes place on the Friday of Fort Ticonderoga’s American Revolution Seminar. Please see www.fortticonderoga.org for the seminar program and details. You may take the Valcour Island tour without attending the seminar.
This tour will demonstrate Benedict Arnold’s skill as a naval commander and hero of the Patriot cause as we visit land and “on the water” sites. We will see Valcour Island from the New York shore, visit the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum which has special exhibits related to Valcour Island, board the reconstructed gunboat, Philadelphia II and take a boat ride thru the Lake Champlain Narrows where Arnold fought a delaying battle with the British. Chris will also update us on the recent archaeological excavations that have been conducted at Arnold’s Bay, the site where Arnold burned the five remaining vessels from the Valcour fleet on October 13, 1776 as well as the continuing plan for archaeological work on the gunboat Spitfire, which is still located in the deep dark waters of Lake Champlain where it was sunk during the retreat from the battle. [Read more…]
Wednesday, June 19 (7pm) – Saturday, June 22 (5:00pm)
Led by: Dr. Phillip Hamilton
HQ: Latham, NY
Tour Registration: $575.00
One of the most iconic operations of the Revolutionary War was the transport of artillery and military munitions from Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point to Boston by Col. Henry Knox. In the dead of winter, the “Noble Train of Artillery” was floated south on Lake George. After a heavy snowfall, the guns were pulled by sled from Lake George to Albany after crossing the Mohawk and Hudson rivers, and then hauled over the Berkshires to Boston. Here the guns were placed on Dorchester Heights by George Washington’s army in March 1776, much to the surprise of the British currently under siege in Boston. A young, former Boston bookseller, Knox, who had a penchant for artillery, was given the chance to command the expedition which he completed successfully. It is a story worth telling as we approach the 250th anniversary of this event next year. We’ll avoid the snow drifts, ice and sleet experienced by Knox’s men by traversing the route in June, rather than the blistery cold days of December through February in 1775-76. But it will be a memorable trek, nonetheless. [Read more…]
Saturday, September 7, 2024 (8AM to 5PM)
Led by: Jeff O’Connor and Bruce Venter
Departure: Amsterdam, NY
Tour Registration: $165.00
This tour will feature the raids, forts, and battles in the Schoharie Valley during the American Revolution.
Many contributing factors made living on the western edge of Albany County, near the frontier, a very dangerous place during the war. Events here are indelibly linked to the people and events of the Mohawk Valley, as well as New York State and beyond. What happened in the Schoharie Valley region was part of a particularly brutal civil war that erupted on New York’s frontier. [Read more…]
Friday, September 20, 2024 (8am to 5pm)
Led by: Jim Rowe and Bruce Venter
Departure: Fort Ticonderoga parking lot
Tour Registration: $150.00
America’s History, LLC will again partner with Fort Ticonderoga to offer a one-day Revolutionary War bus tour.
After leaving Fort Ticonderoga, our tour will start in Bennington, Vermont. On the way to the headquarters of the “Bennington Mob” otherwise known as the Green Mountain Boys we’ll discuss the major characters we’ll meet on today’s tour. Background on the Hampshire Grants dispute, between the settlers led by Ethan Allen and New York officials, will set the stage for what happens on May 10, 1775. In Bennington, we’ll see several landmark sites associated with Ethan Allen like the Catamount Tavern, as the plot to capture Fort Ticonderoga unfolds.
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Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024
Tour registration:
Conference only: $345 Conference & Bus Tour: $495HQ: Glen Allen (Greater Richmond), Virginia
Friday, March 17 (6:30pm) – Sunday, March 19, 2023 (12:30pm)
Tour registration:
Conference only: $295
Conference + Bus Tour: $440All previous conference and tour credits will be honored at no additional cost.
HQ: Williamsburg, Virginia
