AHS has only begun offering an occasional informal Zoom talk of various topics. Many of these fall under the our Behind the Scenes series of offerings that also include walking tours and other special events. When possible these talks are recorded and posted to the AHS YouTube Channel.
Stay tuned for more recorded events in the future!
Catherine Weinraub, History of the Alexandria Fire Department, (June 26, 2024)
Nicholas Redding, Preserving Our Past to Build a Better Future (May 22, 2024)
History Awards Ceremony & Panel Discussion on the Value of a History Degree (April 24, 2024)
Ted Pulliam, True Tales of Old Alexandria (March 27, 2024)
Ebonee Davis "Virginia Theological Seminary Reparations Endowment Fund" (March 24, 2021)
Douglas Sanford "Quarters of Confinement Yet Places of Community" (October 23, 2019)
Char Bah "They Came for Freedom" (September 25, 2019)
Zachary M. Schrag "Thinking Big: Lessons from the Washington Metro" (March 27, 2019)
Jeffrey T. Sammons "Harlems Rattlers and the Great War" (September 26, 2018)
Tim Winkle "Exploring the History of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial" (June 27, 2018)
Nancy Davis "William Ramsey and Business in Eighteenth-Century Alexandria" (March 28, 2018)
Lance Mallamo "Lost Alexandria" (October 25, 2017)
Dan Lee'" Fish: An Alexandria Story" (September 27, 2017)
Adrienne Washington's "African American Churches and the Fort Ward Community" (June 28, 2017)
Mark Tooley "1861 Washington Peace Conference: The Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War" (May 24, 2017)
Jim Bartelinski " 'An Officer... of the Greatest Valor': 2nd Lieutenant Lloyd Diehl Schaeffer Airman of the Great War" (March 22, 2017)
Michael Lisicky "Woodward and Lothrop: A Store Worthy of the Nation's Capital" (March 23, 2016)
Erica Nuckles "The Life and Times of Charlotte Brown: Gender and Rank during the Seven Years' War" (March 25, 2015)
Andrew Lambert "The War of 1812" (September 4, 2014)
Steve Vogel "Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks that Saved the Nation" (May 28, 2014)
Gene Allen Smith "The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812" (October 23, 2013)
Charles V. Mauro "A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia: The Civil War Album of Laura Radcliffe" (June 26, 2013)
Dr. Abby Schreiber New Perspectives on the Old Waterfront: Early Wharves of Alexandria (October 25, 2023)
Dr. Tatiana Niculescu “Wide-awake Merchants” and Reform-minded Women: A Peek into Alexandria’s Early 20th Century Jewish Community — The Rosenfeld Family of 518-520 King Street (September 27, 2023)
Dr. Eleanor Breen, Alexandria City Archaeologist, Waterfront Archaeology Update, (June 28th, 2023)
History Awards Ceremony & Rob Nieweg on Historic Preservation: A Career, a Calling and a Cause (April 24th, 2023)
Molly Kerr Shopping Stories: Revealing Lives through the Ledgers (March 22, 2023)
Scott Vierick Nobody Told Me There Would Be Crocodiles: What Consulting Historians Really Do (October 26, 2022)