An Inside look at Historic Huguenot Street
Jean Hasbrouck House Video Tour
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HHS’s programming is made possible the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This film project is funded by Hudson River Valley Greenway and Americana Corner: Preserving America Grant Program.
Recordings of Live Programs
"'Where Sleep These Loved Ones?': History, Evolution, and Preservation of the Old Huguenot Burying Ground," a virtual talk presented by HHS Tours & Interpretation Manager, Eddie Moran
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. The link to access this recording will expire on January 23, 2025.
"The Native Community of Packanasinck," a virtual presentation with J Michael Smith
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.
"Digging into Documents," a virtual presentation with Dr. Jaap Jacobs & Julie van den Hout
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.
"French Huguenots’ Struggle for Survival and Legitimacy (1517–1802)," presented by Dr. Stephen M. Davis
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. The link to access this recording will expire on February 23, 2024.
"A Tale of Two Paintings," a virtual presentation highlighting the return of Ammi Phillips' works to HHS
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.
"Identifying Esopus Natives in Colonial Ulster County Records," a virtual presentation with J. Michael Smith
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.
"W.E.B. Du Bois' Huguenot Lineage and the Work of Family History," a virtual presentation with Dr. Kendra Taira Field
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.
"Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Arts and Culture," a virtual presentation with Tessa Murdoch
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.
"Faces of the Global Refuge: Huguenot Stories from the Early American Northeast," a virtual presentation with Dr. Owen Stanwood
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)
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