The Buffalo History Museum’s fall program series, Happy Hour History, will continue through Dec. 21.<\/p>\n
The Wednesday night lecture and event series features local and regional historians speaking on a variety of topics, as well as documentary screenings sponsored by WNED. Beer and wine will be available for purchase at each event. Admission for the program series is $5 per event unless otherwise noted, and free for members. Each program starts at 6 p.m. and the Museum will remain open until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
The series schedule is as follows.<\/p>\n
12\/7\/22:\u202f\u201cDistinctly American: Secessionism & The Road to the Civil War\u201d\u202fwith Patrick F. Ryan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Join The Buffalo History Museum\u2019s Programs and Education Coordinator, Patrick F. Ryan, for a retrospective study of the role that secessionism played throughout American history, beginning in the late 18th century. See how John C. Calhoun’s (and other Southerners’) ideas and rhetoric were not novel. This presentation investigates the early whispers of nullification and secessionism in the United States, namely, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, Essex Junto, the Hartford Convention, indecision by the founders, and how this indecision shaped later American politicians in the mid-19th century.<\/p>\n