Past Events - The Center for American Studies - Christopher Newport University

Past Events

2024

  • January 31
    17th Annual Conference on America’s Founding Principles and History: Great American Trials
  • March 12-13
    The 12th Annual Homeland Security Symposium and Expo: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies
  • March 13
    Slave Trading in the Civil War South- A Talk by Dr. Robert Colby
  • April 20 
    Teacher Workshop- Civil Disobedience in American History

2023

  • February 16 
    The 11th Annual Homeland Security Symposium and Expo: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure
  • May 15-18
    Surface Force Projection Conference: Achieving Surface Deployment at the Speed of War: Supporting Large-Scale Operations
  • July 17-21
    Teacher Workshop- The Civil War in Hampton Roads
  • July 21-23 
    Teacher Workshop- The American Revolution (1763-1783)
  • August 8-10
    Association of Marine Corps Logisticians Symposium: Operation: Jumpstart from Aspirational to Operational
  • September 26
    Constitution Day Lecture: Saving Democracy from Itself: Tocqueville and the Constitution
  • October 5 
    Banned Books Week Presentation: “Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: The Book That Wasn’t Banned (But Probably Should Have Been)” by Dr. Bernard Joseph Dobski

2022

  • July 20 
    Teacher Workshop- The American Civil War Museum
  • July 21-23
    Teacher Workshop- The American Revolution (1763-1783)
  • July 24-26 
    Teacher Workshop- Principles of American Government
  • July 27 
    Teacher Workshop- Mariner’s Museum and Park
  • September 22
    15th Annual Conference on America’s Founding Principles and History: The Constitution on Campus and Beyond
  • November 1-2
    Association of Marine Corps Logisticians Symposium: Logistics Rewired

2021

  • July 13
    Teacher Workshop- T.C. Walker- African-American Public Education in Virginia
  • July 28
    Teacher Workshop- American Revolution
  • July 29 
    Teacher Workshop- Jamestown Settlement
  • September 14
    Constitution Day Debate: Immigration and the Constitution: the Clash of the Two Ilyas
  • September 15
    Mugged by Reality: What We Learned in Iraq and Forgot in Afghanistan
  • September 30
    Thucydides on Statesmanship and War
  • October 25
    Annual Conference on America's Founding Principles and History: Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
  • November 7
    Teacher Workshop- Conversations with Frederick Douglass and Angela Davis

2020

  • February 13
    The 10th Annual Homeland Security Symposium and Expo
  • March 14
    Spring Teacher Workshop- “Remember the Ladies” - Women’s History in the Classroom
  • May 12-14
    2020 Conference on Ports: Enabling Dynamic Force Employment - Through Global Port Readiness
  • July 12-14
    Teacher Workshop - Women's History
  • July 14
    Webinar - A Conversation with Frederick Douglass
  • July 15-18
    Teacher Workshop - Hampton Roads and the American Civil War
  • July 16
    Webinar - Agents of Change: Women's Civic Activism in Virginia from Suffrage to the Present
  • July 19-21
    Teacher Workshop - African American History: 1619 to the 21st Century
  • July 21
    Webinar - Girl Scouts: A Legacy of Civic Leadership Amidst Change
  • July 23
    Webinar - How Did the Civil War Change the Lives of American Women?
  • July 28
    Webinar - Women in the Chesapeake
  • July 30
    Webinar - A Conversation with Angela
  • September 24
    Constitution Day Debate: Should the Electoral College be Reformed?

2019

  • January 29
    The 9th Annual Homeland Security Symposium and Expo
  • February 23
    Teacher Workshop - Documents, Artifacts, Historic Sites and the Classroom
  • February 27 
    The Vanishing Congress: Reflections on Politics in Washington
  • April 30-May 2
    Conference on America's Ports: Supporting Our National Military Objectives
  • July 15
    Joint Warfighting Forum
  • July 18-20
    Teacher Workshop - African American History: 1619 to the 21st Century
  • July 21-23
    Teacher Workshop - American Representative Government: Jamestowne to the 21st Century
  • July 24-27
    Teacher Workshop - Hampton Roads and the American Civil War
  • September 17
    Constitution Day Debate: Lincoln vs. Douglas
  • October 19
    Teacher Workshop - People of the Past: Teaching the Stories of History
  • October 28
    13th Annual Conference on America's Founding Principles and History: Scandals and Impeachment from the Founding to the Present
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