SEPTEMBER 2026

The Latest from AHP

Our Upcoming Events

Video Dispatches from Historic Plymouth!

Building on the success of our Philadelphia 250th anniversary coverage, American Heritage Partners President Jonathan "Jay" Dickey is heading to Plymouth, Massachusetts, from September 11 through September 16, 2026! Jay will broadcast short video dispatches on-location from the historic landmarks, monuments, and shoreline where early American history unfolded. Look for these dispatches on our various media platforms.





Recent Events

On August 1, AHP’s President Jay Dickey gave a talk entitled “Ghosts from the Past: the History of Northern Nevada’s Pioneer Cemeteries,” in which he provided an overview of some of the leading pioneers who came to Northern Nevada, and who founded the cities and towns that fueled the growth of Northern Nevada. This event was held at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park in Minden, Nevada.

On August 12, AHP co-hosted a sold-out gathering to commemorate the 350th anniversary of King Philip’s War. Our Guest Speaker was Beth Lambright, Member at Large and Chair of the Education Committee, The General Society of Mayflower Descendants. She discussed the various crises that affected the Pokanoket people in the 17th Century that led to King Philip's War. This was a family friendly picnic - free and open to all. Cosponsors included the Nevada Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century, The Order of Founders and Patriots of America and AHP.

Some Recent Posts

The Battle of the Chesapeake

Battle of Long Island

Remembering

Philip Delano

Recommended Reading

Jay Dickey, AHP President has a new book available on our website entitled "The Life and Times of the Jamestowne Colony 1607-1699."This new book offers readers a deep dive into the political, social, and economic realities of life in the first permanent English settlement in North America. Founded in 1607, the Jamestowne Colony experienced multiple calamities over the course of its formative years, from the disaster of the “Massacre of 1622” to Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676-- America’s first Revolution. Yet, the Colony slowly took root, and over the next century, the settlement that almost collapsed after the “Starving Time” of the winter of 1609-10 developed into an economic and political powerhouse. Relying on contemporaneous records of the Virginia Company, the Virginia House of Burgesses, the English Colonial State Papers, and other primary source materials, author Jay Dickey has woven together a treasure trove of stories that capture the history of the Colony, its people, and the political wranglings that took place in Virginia and London that ultimately led to the imposition of imperial rule in the last years of Jamestowne’s time as the center of government in Virginia. Dickey’s book also offers glimpses into the seamier side of the Colony, from its problems with rampant public drunkenness, to the many petty squabbles between neighbors, and the horrific periods of starvation and disease that beset the Colony, and that led to the deaths of countless settlers. Dickey calls his book a “micro-history,” a series of short historical stories revealing the day-to-day stresses and strains—and sometimes the outright terror-- of life in Virginia in the seventeenth century.

From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American culture.

The Westerners tells two richly detailed and interwoven stories. The first reveals the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the 19th century. The second tracks the attempts of many Americans to erase these westerners from history, through a frontier myth that lionized individualism and conquest and celebrated white settlers traveling west in search of prosperity.

NYG&B

Following the success of our first sponsored digitization kit, American Heritage Partners approved a $4,000 grant to fund a second portable Digitization Kit for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society’s flagship Digitize New York initiative.

This second kit expands NYG&B’s mission of deploying professional-grade scanning technology and training directly to small, local historical societies, churches, and volunteer groups across New York State.

Project & Upcoming Impact

• Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Church; Kinderhook, Columbia Co., NY
• “These records date as early as 1717, and include both Dutch and English church and cemetery records from the 18th–20th century.

American Revolution Institute

American Heritage Partners is pleased to announce a major grant to the American Revolution Institute (“ARI”) to fund the 2027 “American Heritage Partners Research Fellowship.” This grant will support the research of a worthy scholar who will use the library of the ARI in Washington D.C. to advance his or her research leading to the publication of a significant historical work on a subject related to the American Revolution. AHP previously funded an ARI Fellowship for Professor Michael Auslin, whose book, “National Treasure,” was published earlier this year to critical acclaim. AHP’s President Jay Dickey says, “AHP’s mission is to educate and inform the public about important events in American history, and the American Revolution Institute is one of the premier organizations devoted to telling the story of the American Revolution, through public lectures and other educational programs. We thank ARI for its tireless efforts to preserve our American history, particularly in this year in which Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence.

For more information about our latest collaborations or latest content, please visit our website.