2022 Speakers Series
Our annual Speaker Series presentations begin in April and continue in May, September and October. All of the presentations will be held on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and they are free and open to the public.
The Speaker Series will be held in the auditorium at Shepherd University’s Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education. Announcements about Zoom availability will be made closer to each talk.
Please note that some dates have changed.
- Living Libraries: Using Oral History to Preserve the Past9/7Dr. Keith Alexander, associate professor of history at Shepherd University. Dr. Alexander’s students conducted the oral interviews that are the basis for a new exhibit “African American Educational Opportunities in Jefferson County, WV, Before and After Brown v. Board of Education, 1954” which will open at Historic Shepherdstown Museum in mid-May.
The annual meeting for Historic Shepherdstown Commission will precede Dr. Alexander’s talk.
- Looking at the History and Future of the Shepherdstown Riverfront11/16Historic Shepherdstown Commission will host a public forum. This event will be a panel presentation and community discussion.
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bts4hsm2016-06-12 15:29:202016-09-26 20:59:40James Shepherd Five-Drawer Chest
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bts4hsm2016-06-12 15:17:212016-06-12 15:17:21Cherry Table Ends
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bts4hsm2016-04-28 17:46:532016-04-28 17:46:53Brass Cuspidor
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bts4hsm2016-03-07 20:31:582021-10-11 15:50:20John Francis Hamtramck
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bts4hsm2016-02-19 21:13:392020-06-07 21:40:32The Rumsey Steamboat Museum
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bts4hsm2016-02-18 22:11:042016-02-18 22:11:04Joseph McMurran
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bts4hsm2016-02-18 16:30:552020-06-07 21:37:35Daniel Bedinger
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bts4hsm2016-01-28 21:13:542016-01-28 21:13:54The Battle of Antietam
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bts4hsm2016-01-28 20:54:492016-01-28 20:54:49Red Sox Uniform
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bts4hsm2016-01-28 20:51:332016-01-28 20:51:33Shepherdstown & the American Civil War
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bts4hsm2016-01-28 20:41:142017-04-12 20:05:43Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks
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bts4hsm2016-01-13 22:06:372016-01-13 22:06:37Civil War Marker No. 23
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bts4hsm2016-01-08 19:03:582016-01-08 19:03:58Hopkins Desk
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bts4hsm2016-01-08 18:19:362016-01-08 18:19:36John Woltz Clock
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bts4hsm2016-01-01 18:52:522016-01-01 18:52:52Entler Hotel
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bts4hsm2015-12-31 22:15:522015-12-31 22:15:52McMurran Hall
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bts4hsm2015-12-31 21:40:522015-12-31 21:40:52Old Trinity Church
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bts4hsm2015-12-31 20:31:512017-02-19 22:00:25James Rumsey
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bts4hsm2015-12-29 15:40:232015-12-29 15:40:23Reverend John Kehler
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bts4hsm2015-12-20 16:47:182015-12-20 16:47:18Conrad Shindler
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bts4hsm2015-12-20 15:47:142015-12-20 15:47:14Copper Kettle
A Shepherdstown resident writes to Martha Washington, 1799
The Museum recently came across a letter that was written to Martha Washington, expressing condolences on the death of her husband, President George Washington. The letter was written on December 26, 1799, from “Shepherdstown on the Potomac.” The author of the letter was Mary Stead Pinckney. Mary and her husband, General Charles Coatesworth Pinckney, earlier […]
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