The Many Uses of the Continental R-957 Radial Engine!![]()
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To all the vintage Jeep owners ~ On May 2, 2026, vintage Jeep drivers will gather at the American Heritage Museum for the Epic Willys Mini-Race (EWMR): Missile Mystery—a one-day, 100-mile adventure through the hidden landscapes of Cold War Massachusetts. A grand adventure! For registration and more information go to www.epicwillysminirace.com
Let's Check Out the Driver's Seat in our German Sturmgeschütz III!![]()
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Get Hands On With History This April Vacation!![]()
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When you visit us this April vacation, be sure to check out our exclusive Korean War discovery table, only available this coming Monday to Wednesday.![]()
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Accompanied by a knowledgeable reenactor, this interactive living-history exhibit gives you and yours the opportunity to personally handle and manipulate original and replica equipment that would have been used by tank crews in the Korean War.![]()
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Join us next week and experience history in a whole new way!![]()
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Greetings Facebookers! The American Heritage Museum will be open all next week for April school break - 10am to 5pm. Great place to take the whole family. Look forward to seeing you soon ~
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Speaker Series: Rustic Warrior by Dr. Steven Eames
November 19, 2021 @ 1:00 pm, ending 2:30 pm
$10 – $20
The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent: General John Forbes called them “a gathering from the scum of the worst people.”
Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers’ battlefield style, strategy, and conduct, Steven Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the particular challenges, terrain, and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, Dummer’s War, and King George’s War, Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place. Throughout Rustic Warriors, he uses early New England culture as a staging ground from which to better understand the ways in which New Englanders waged war, as well as to provide a fuller picture of the differences between provincial, French, and Native American approaches to war.
About Dr. Eames:
Dr. Steven C. Eames spent thirty-five years as a professor of history. His research interest focuses on the impact of war on people both soldiers and civilians. His published works include Sacrifice of Self: Nahant and the Civil War (won the American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit and Albert B. Corey Award, also an award for the New England Museum Association), and Rustic Warriors: Warfare and the Provincial Soldier on the New England Frontier, 1689-1748.
This presentation is being presented from 1:00pm to 2:30pm on Friday, November 19th and is included as part of standard admission to the American Heritage Museum. You may purchase admission on the day of the event at the Admissions Desk or you may purchase tickets online to be emailed to you at the General Admissions eTickets link here.
