Admission:

Event: $10

Event & Dinner*: $39.95

*Extend your time with us and enjoy a meal in our historic, lakeside Dining Hall. Click below to register for this event and see the option to add a meal reservation. Subject to availability.

In the aftermath of the Election of 2024, many questions are circulating within our news media and within our minds.  Have political coalitions realigned?  How did one candidate "win" the election, and how did the other candidate "lose" it?  What do Americans really want from their leadership?  And at the core, how much of our present moment might fundamentally change America, and how much is politics as usual?

Although history cannot answer these questions for our future, it can give instructive examples from our past. Join Sagamore Historian Connor Williams for a lecture and conversation on what our nation's past elections can teach us about its present and future ones.

This is a non-partisan event: Connor's remarks will be grounded in the past, and presented apolitically--in all aspects, this event is intended to learn from history, rather than politicize it.

Connor Williams - Professional Historian

In addition to being Sagamore’s staff historian, Connor Williams is a formally trained American historian with degrees from Middlebury College, Dartmouth College, and Yale University. His past professional experience involves writing, speaking, teaching, consulting, and working for the United States Congress.  In all these pursuits, he has enjoyed being able to keep one foot in the traditions and standards of formal academia, and one foot in the exigencies and politics of the present. The Sagamore Seminars in History Lecture Series provides a terrific chance to share his varied experiences and expertise in an exceptional, historical, and rejuvenating setting.