Tag: James Madison
Treaty of Paris Center announces upcoming sessions
The Treaty of Paris Center has announced upcoming sessions in August as well as their annual festival in September! August 1: “Congress in Annapolis” On Saturday, August 1, the Treaty of Paris Center at the Maryland Inn on Main Street in Annapolis presents “An Overview of What Congress Achieved in Annapolis, Nov. 26, 1783 – Aug. […]
Treaty of Paris Center session scheduled for Saturday
The new Treaty of Paris Center at the Maryland Inn is a monthly open house that focuses on the important history that took place in Annapolis during the 1783-87 Treaty of Paris Period—the time between the end of the Revolutionary War and the Constitutional Convention—when Congress was here, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe served as […]
Treaty of Paris Center makes debut on January 3rd
Annapolis has never had an interpretive center dedicated to the Treaty of Paris Period (1783-87), the time between the Revolution and the Constitution, when Annapolis hosted the unicameral Congress (including delegates Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe); when George Washington resigned from the Army; when arguably the most important document in American history—the Treaty of Paris—was […]
Pulitzer winning author to speak at St. John’s College
[do action=”schuh”/] Jack N. Rakove, Stanford University professor, noted Constitutional historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will speak on “James Madison’s ‘Ticklish Experiment’” at the Great Issues Forum at St. John’s College. Sponsored by the Friends of St. John’s College, the Great Issues Forum, “Vices of Our Political System: In Madison’s Time—and Ours,” will be held […]
Treaty of Paris Festival coming in September
To learn more about how the Treaty of Paris changed this country forever and the role Annapolis played, check out the 2014 National Treaty of Paris Festival on Saturday, Sept. 6, focusing on the entire Treaty of Paris Period (1783-87), from France to Philadelphia, when there was neither a war going on nor a new Constitution […]
Continental Congress Festival September 11-14
The free 2013 National Continental Congress Festival, celebrating and re-enacting the 1786 Annapolis Convention that led to Philadelphia and a new Constitution, will take place Wednesday through Saturday, Sept. 11-14 at the Annapolis Lodge, 162 Conduit Street, featuring: The “America’s Forgotten 14 Presidents of Congress” exhibit, including a signed document by each of the 14 […]
Ballet Theatre Brings War Of 1812 Ballet To Baltimore
Ballet Theatre of Maryland (BTM), the state’s premier professional ballet company, will perform Frontier: The War of 1812 at the Baltimore Theatre Project for two performances on March 8 & 9 at 8pm. Frontier: The War of 1812 is a live dance multi-media performance that captures the fiery independence of colonial America as it forges […]
