DAY/TIME

TOPIC

LOCATION

FACILITATOR

Sunday, 3-9pm

Arrival and Registration

Niagara University [NU] Apartments

Workshop Staff

Monday, 9:00am

Welcome and Orientation

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Project Director:  Thomas A. Chambers

9:30am

Lecture/Q&A: First Contact—Europe and America Meet

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Visiting Faculty: Thomas A. Chambers (Week 1); David J. Silverman (Week 2).

10:45am

Shuttle to Old Fort Niagara [OFN]

Gallagher Center, NU

11:00 am

OFN overview tour

OFN

OFN staff

12:30pm

Box Lunch

OFN grounds

1:00pm

Explore OFN/

Individual research: French and Iroquois accounts

OFN

3:00pm

Refreshments

Visitor Center, OFN

3:15pm

Archival sources

(2 groups of 20 each)

OFN Archives

Visiting Faculty: Susan Maguire

3:15-5:00pm

Group Sessions

(alternates with Archival sessions)

Officers’ Club, OFN

Project Director, Master Teacher

5:00pm

Shuttle to NU

Visitor Center, OFN

6:00pm

Dinner

NU dining hall

8:00pm

Movie: “Black Robe”

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Tuesday, 9:00am

Lecture/Q&A:

“The Iroquois and Fort Niagara”

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Visiting Faculty: David Preston (Week 1); Jon Parmenter (Week 2);

10:00am

Refreshments

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

10:15

Individual research: Johnson Papers

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Project Director, Master Teacher

11:45am

Group Sessions

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Master Teacher, Project Director

12:15pm

Lunch

NU dining hall

1:00pm

Shuttle

NU

1:15pm

Native peoples, cultures, and warfare

OFN

OFN interpretive staff

3:00pm

Archeology OFN

OFN field sites

Visiting Faculty: Elizabeth S. Peña

5:00pm

Shuttle

Visitor Center, OFN

6:00pm

Dinner

NU dining hall

7:00pm

Shuttle to Dining and Sightseeing: Niagara Falls

NU Apartments

“on your own”

Wednesday,
Week 1: 9:00am

Lecture/Q&A: Loyalists and Revolution (Week 1)

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Visiting Faculty:

Karim Tiro (Week 1).

10:30am

Break

Week 1: 10:45am

Individual Research: Loyalists, Revolution

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Project Director, Master Teacher

Visiting Faculty:

Carl Benn (Week 2).

12:00pm

Lunch

NU dining hall

Week 1: 1:30pm

The Early 19c Niagara Frontier

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Visiting Faculty:

Alan Taylor (Week 1)

Week 2: 1:30pm

Group Sessions

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Master Teacher, Project Director

3-5pm

Break, Rest Period

5:30pm

Dinner

NU dining hall

7pm

Shuttle

Gallagher Center, NU

7:30pm

Garrison Life, Lantern Tour, Overnight Stay

OFN

OFN staff

Thursday, 8am

Camp Breakfast

OFN

9:00am

Military Tactics

OFN

OFN staff

11:00am

Shuttle

Visitor Center, OFN

12:00pm

Lunch

NU dining hall

1:30pm

Break

3:15pm

Lecture/Q&A:

“Fort Niagara and the War of 1812”

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Visiting Faculty: Douglas W. DeCroix.

4:30-5:30pm

Individual research, Group Sessions: War of 1812; Taylor, Divided Ground.

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Master Teacher, Project Director

6:00pm

Dinner

NU dining hall

Friday, 9am

Lecture/Q&A: Westward Expansion and Settlement

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Visiting Faculty:

Thomas A. Chambers

10:15am

Individual Research: Westward Expansion and Settlement

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Project Director, Master Teacher

11:00am

Group Sessions

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Project Director

12:30pm

Lunch

NU dining hall

1:30pm

Group Presentations

3:30pm

Conclusions

St. Vincent’s Hall, NU

Master Teacher, Project Director

6pm

Dinner

NU dining hall

Saturday

Check-out

NU

Workshop Staff