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  • January 2025
  • Thu 2
    January 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Bosler Local History Series – Carlisle’s Lincoln Cemetery

    Archives & Library Director, Cara Curtis, will explore the complex history of Carlisle’s oldest historic Black cemetery at the corner of Pitt and Penn Streets.

  • Mon 27
    January 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Reconsidering Carlisle’s Early History on Cumberland’s 275th Anniversary

    Virtual program. Judith Ridner published her early history of Carlisle "A Town In-Between" in 2010. In this talk, Ridner reviews some of her findings and considers newer research that I and other scholars have uncovered that offers new perspectives on Carlisle’s and Cumberland’s early history.  Register for the Program Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NMLpSHyeSU6z5cH0HEN65w

  • February 2025
  • Thu 6
    February 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Bosler Local History Series – Photographs and Memories of the Little Red Schoolhouse

    Between the rides of the Blue Mountains and the crystalline waters of the Yellow Breeches Creek, one-room schoolhouse of yesteryear dot the landscape of Cumberland County. By the latter half […]

  • Sat 15
    February 15 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    William Trent: Face of Westward Expansion

    The son of a Philadelphia shipping merchant and the namesake for the capital of New Jersey, William Trent carved his own legacy as a gentleman, throughout the latter half of […]

  • March 2025
  • Sat 1
    March 1 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

    Hiding in Plain Sight

    Join us at lecture space in Todd Hall to discover Sources of Untapped Information for Historians and Family Researchers in Cumberland County Court House Records. Merri Lou Schaumann, author and […]

  • Thu 6
    March 6 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Bosler Local History Series – Agriculture in Cumberland County

    From the earliest human inhabitants to the present day, Cumberland County has been an agricultural breadbasket. Many great innovations were developed or tested in the Cumberland Valley. We will discuss […]

  • Mon 24
    March 24 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

    The Citizens of Gettysburg Before, During, and After the Battle

    Todd Hall 21 N. Pitt St., Carlisle, PA, United States

    Jim Richards discusses the unwilling witnesses to the events of late June 1863 through November of that year and what they experienced when war was at their doorsteps. We will […]

  • April 2025
  • Thu 3
    April 3 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Bosler Local History Series – Images of the Carlisle Indian School

    Guest Curator Kate Theimer will provide some background on the upcoming CCHS exhibit that will look at the images of Indian School Students.  Some of the most well-known images of […]

  • Sat 5
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    April 5 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Fabulous Photos: Facts, Fun, and Fashion

    Todd Hall 21 N. Pitt St., Carlisle, PA, United States

    Join Photo Archives volunteers Sandy and Beth Mader as they share some favorite photos that they have entered into the archives. Come hear the stories and share some of the […]

  • May 2025
  • Sat 3
    May 3 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    New Perspectives on the Carlisle Indian School

    In the context of the Indian boarding school system in the United States, the word "Carlisle" serves as both shorthand and symbol. Separating and honoring Carlisle both as symbol and […]

  • June 2025
  • Mon 2
    June 2 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

    Colonel William Thompson and the Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion of June 1775

    On 14 June 1775 the Second Continental Congress directed ten companies of expert riflemen to be raised in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. These small units with their individual Pennsylvania Rifles […]

  • Sat 21
    June 21 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Critiquing the School’s Conditions, Not the School’s Mission: The 1914 Carlisle Indian School Investigation

    Join Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center team member Lily Sweeney for an overview of the Congressional investigation of the Carlisle Indian School in spring of 1914. This talk will […]

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