Docents – Education and Training  

From Wagon Roads to New South City

2012

A series of lectures offered by the

Mecklenburg Historical Association Docents in partnership with

the Charlotte Museum of History and Levine Museum of the New South

January 28, 9:30am-12:00pm at the Charlotte Museum of History

An Overview of Charlotte’s History

Mary Kratt, author of Charlotte, North Carolina: A Brief History

A Cultural History of the Catawba Nation

Dr. Stephen Criswell, Director of Native American Studies, USC Lancaster

February 4, 9:30am-12:00pm at the Charlotte Museum of History

American Revolution in the Carolinas

Tom Phlegar, Charlotte Museum of History Docent & member of the SAR

Charlotte Gold: Mining, the Mint and what it meant in our history

Mike Sullivan, former chair Charlotte Historic Landmarks Commission

February 11, 9:30am-12:00pm at Levine Museum of the New South

Journeys toward Freedom: Slavery and Resistance to Slavery in North Carolina

Michelle Lanier, Acting Director of North Carolina African American Heritage Commission

America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation

Dr. David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, UNCC

February 18, 9:30am-12:00pm at Levine Museum of the New South

Re-Inventing: Charlotte in the New South 1865-2011

Tom Hanchett, Historian of Levine Museum of the New South

Charlotte’s Historic Treasures

Staff from featured Mecklenburg County historic sites

February 25, 9:30am-12:00pm Location to be announced

Southern History in Musical Form: a Multi-Cultural Presentation of Music

Tom Hanchett, Historian, Kitty Wilson-Evans, Slavery Interpreter and Native American performers

To register please call or email the Charlotte Museum of History by January 27, 2012

704-568-1774, programs@charlottemuseum.org

Registration fee: $10.00, includes all 5 lectures within the series