Events Calendar

Events Calendar

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Historic Archive Collections of the National Trust for Scotland, with a focus on St. Kilda

Presenter: Ian Riches, Archivist, Historic Archive Collections and Properties, The National Trust for Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Scottish Politics in 2021: The United Kingdom, Brexit, and the Independence Movement

Presenter: Euan Hague, Ph.D., Professor and Director, School of Public Service, DePaul University

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: King James II and VII: The Forgotten Jacobite

Presenter: Alastair J. Mann, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Stirling, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Scots of Chicago's North Shore 

Presenter: David Forlow, Co-Author of Scots of Chicago's North Shore

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Scottish Fiddle Music - The Art and the Legacy

Presenter: Alistair McCulloch, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Signs, symbols and sedition: the material culture of Jacobitism

Presenter: David S Forsyth, Interim Keeper, Art & Design, Department of Art & Design, National Museums Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Scottish-American Association, 1919-1923: A Case Study into Scottish and American Elite Connections After the First World War

Presenter: Stephen Bowman, Lecturer in History, Department of History, University of Stirling, Scotland 

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The University of the Highlands and Islands - The History and Future of Secondary Education in the Highlands

The story of the University of the Highlands and Islands, its evolution, and vision for the future, including the Centre for History’s evolution within the university, and how it has become internationally renowned for its teaching and research in Highland, Scottish and wider-world history.

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Reverend James Fraser and the Highlands Before Culloden

Presenter: Professor David Worthington, Professor, Head of the Centre for History, University of Highlands and Islands, Inverness, Scotland

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: ‘’Scotland's Greatest Cultural Gift to the World: the Scottish Enlightenment and How It Came About"

Presenter:

Sir Tom Devine Kt OBE FRSE FBA

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Celtic and Norse PLACE Names in the North

Presenter: Professor Donna Heddle, MA (Hons), PhD, FHEA, FSA Scot, FRSA

Director of the UHI Institute for Northern Studies

Orkney College, University of Highlands and Islands, Orkney, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Council, the Union and the 'Patriot': The Scottish Privy Council, Anglo-Scottish, Union and Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

Presenter: Alastair J. Mann, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Stirling, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Border Reivers - The Unknown Clans of the Lowlands

Presenter: Bruce S. Allardice, J.D., Instructor Social & Behavioral Science, History, Political Science, South Suburban, College, South Holland, Illinois

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Reputations of Dr. David Livingstone

Presenter: Professor James J. Smyth, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Stirling, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Alma College's Dramatic Arts and Scottish Heritage

Presenter: Professor Scott Mackenzie, PhD, Professor and Director of Theatre in the Department of Theatre and Dance, Alma College, Alma, Michigan

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Politics and Alliances of the Carolina Scots During the Revolutionary War

Presenter: Donald C. McLeod, FSAScot, Southern Pines, North Carolina

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Lives of the Medieval Leges Marchiarum Treatise 

Presenter: Dr. Professor Cynthia J. Neville, FRHistS, FSAScot, Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Mass Global Emigration from Scotland in the Nineteenth Century: A Puzzle from the Scottish Past

Presenter: Sir Tom Devine Kt OBE HonMRIA FRSE FBA MAE

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Scottish Settlement of Prince Edward Island and Its Implications for Island Society and Culture

Presenter: Professor Edward MacDonald, PhD, Department of History, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Anglo-Scottish Borders – Violence, Custom and Laws Broken

Presenter: Professor Cynthia J. Neville, PhD, FRHistS, FSAScot, Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland Presenter: Bruce S. Allardice, J.D., Instructor Social & Behavioral Science, History, Political Science, South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois […]

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Imaginary Friendship”: John Adams and Jonathan Sewall and their American Revolution

Presenter: Professor Dr. Colin Nicolson F.R.Hist.S., Editor of the Bernard Papers, Faculty of Arts and Humanities: History and Politics, University of Stirling, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Topic: Victorian Travelers in Scotland

Presenter: Professor Kevin James, PhD
Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, and Professor of History, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Irish Futures: Ireland and Northern Ireland
Speaker: Brendan O'Leary, PhD (LSE), FRSA, MRIA (hon), Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania and Fulbright Scholar to Ireland 2021-22, NUI-Galway, Honorary Professor of Political Science Queen’s University Belfast

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online & The History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff 509 E Deerpath Rd, Lake Forest, IL, United States

Topic: The History of the Highland Colonial Settlement of the Upper Cape Fear and Upper Pee Dee Regions of the Carolinas 

Speaker: Bill Caudill, Director, The Scottish Heritage Center, and Instructor St. Andrews University Pipe Band, St. Andrews University, Laurinburg, North Carolina   

Free

The Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Maine Ulster Scots Project and Ulster History on the Eastern Frontier
Speaker: John Mann, PLS, Founder and Chairman Emeritus Maine Ulster Scots Project

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Story Of Scottish Democracy: And Where We Are Now 

Speaker: Christopher Thomson, Counsellor, Head of Scottish Government USA, British Embassy, Washington, DC 

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Highlands and Islands After 1746: Law, Power, and Resistance 

Speaker: Dr. Matthew P. Dziennik, Associate Professor, British and British Imperial History, History Department, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Memory of John Paul Jones in Scottish-American Relations, 1890s-1970s

Speaker: ​Dr Stephen Bowman and Dr György Tóth, Lecturers in History, University of Stirling, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Religion in Scotland: Medieval Times to the Present 

Speaker: Dr. Marjory Harper, Professor and Chair in History, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Scots of 18th Century: Scotland, Colonial America and the War For Independence
Speaker: Constance Nestor, FSAScot, MA, BA, Independent Historian, PhD Candidate Liberty University, Governor Chicago Scots/ Illinois Saint Andrew Society

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Mary, Queen of Scots- Myths versus Realities 

Presenter: Bruce S. Allardice, J.D., Instructor Social & Behavioral Science, History, Political Science, South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois 

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Burning Land: One Family's Passage Through the Civil War and into the West
Speaker: David O. Stewart, Historian and Author of George Washington, The Summer of 1787, Impeached, Madison's Gift, American Emperor and others.

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Ulster Scots, Princeton University and Founding of the University of North Carolina in1795: Role of William R. Davie, War Hero

Speaker: Donald C. McLeod, FSAScot, FCCP, Historian and former Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Duke University North Carolina, and State University, Buffalo, New York, Southern Pines, NC

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Scottish American Military Society - The Legacy and the Pride

Presenter: Kenneth A. Lloyd, National Commander, The Scottish American Military Society, USA

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Robert Burns: As He Sees Us and We See Him

Presenter: Gus Noble OBE, President, Chicago Scots and Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The Legacy of the Glencoe Massacre

Speaker: Dr. Ryan Burns, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Climatic Change - Scotland Compared to North America

Speaker: Dr. Graeme Morton, Professor in Modern History, School of Humanities, University of Dundee, Scotland

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: The History, Nature, and Relevance of Scottish Foods

Speaker: Sarah McCaslin Dziennik, PhD, Adjunct Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

Topic: Failing to Make Peace: Adam Ferguson, the Carlyle Commision and the Scottish Enlightenment in America Speaker: Professor Michael Brown, FRHistS, Professor and Chair in […]

Free

Scottish American History Forum

Online

The World of the Clans in Late-Medieval Gaelic Scotland
Professor Martin MacGregor, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Scottish History, University of Glasgow, Scotland