Opening the Vault: Pathways of Accessibility to Ticonderoga's Hidden Collections

FAIN: ZPA-283778-22

Fort Ticonderoga Museum (Ticonderoga, NY 12883-2711)
Miranda Peters (Project Director: May 2021 to November 2022)
Beth L. Hill (Project Director: November 2022 to September 2023)

The retention of seven staff and the addition of archival consultants to inventory and assess the archival records of a Revolutionary War fort in New York and, in collaboration with a local Native American tribe, to create public programs and exhibitions that explore the war and its impact in new ways.

This project seeks to provide the first comprehensive inventory of over 1000 archival records in Fort Ticonderoga’s history and pilot a project to make one particular source not only more accessible to learners of all ages across the country, but more engaging. In partnership with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, we will collaborate to use the diary of Ensign William Johnson, a young officer serving with the British Indian Department, to explore the collision of language, culture, gender, war, and revolution during the trauma of the American War of Independence.