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Montana History Conference 2024

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Montana History Conference 2024
Montana History Conference 2024
Montana Historical Society CONFERENCE
Thu, September 26, 2024 @ 08:00 AM — Sat, September 28, 2024 @ 05:00 PM (MDT)
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THIS EVENT IS 100% FREE!

Join us for Central to History, the 51st annual Montana History Conference, September 26-28, 2024 at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls.


The three-day conference is jam-packed with six workshops, fifteen bus and walking tours, thirty lecture sessions, three panel discussions, and five outstanding keynote presentations all aimed at illuminating the many facets of Central Montana history. Come along for the ride and learn how Great Falls is central to Montana history.


Early bird registration costs $215 per person (July 15 through Aug. 26) and includes opening reception with heavy appetizers on Thursday evening, light breakfast, breaks, lunch, and dinner on Friday, and light breakfast, morning break, and lunch on Saturday. Ticketed tours are extra. Registration cost increases to $265 (Aug. 27 to Sept. 19).

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September 19, 2024 @ 11:55 pm
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Heritage Inn
1700 Fox Farm Rd
Great Falls, MT  USA
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AGENDA
Thursday, September 26
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Made in Montana Tour
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Genealogy Workshop
9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Fort Benton Tour
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Educators Workshop
9:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Historic Preservation Workshop
10:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Lewis and Clark Portage Tour
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Writers Workshop
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Western Art Tour
1:20 PM to 5:00 PM
Free Genealogy Consultation
1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Malmstrom Air Force Base Tour
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Tours
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Archives Workshop
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Great Falls North Side Historic District Walking Tour
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Great Falls South Side Neighborhood Walking Tour
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Opening Reception
Friday, September 27
8:00 AM to 9:15 AM
Light Breakfast and Welcome Presentation
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent Session 01 - They Headed West
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent Session 02 - Indigenous Pathways
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent Session 03 - Prairie Skyscrapers
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent Session 04 - Creative Catholics
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent Session 05 - Captured on Glass and Film
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent Session 06 - Facing the Music
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent Session 07 - 1776-2026: A Semiquincentennial Roundtable
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Lunch and Keynote Presentation
2:15 PM to 3:30 PM
Concurrent Session 08 - Documenting the West
2:15 PM to 3:30 PM
Concurrent Session 09 - Livestock and Livelihood
2:15 PM to 3:30 PM
Concurrent session 10 - Cooking and Community
2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
First Peoples Buffalo Jump Tour
2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Tours
3:45 PM to 5:00 PM
Concurrent session 11 - Perspectives on Military Life
3:45 PM to 5:00 PM
Concurrent session 12 - Women of Virtue and Vice
3:45 PM to 5:00 PM
Concurrent session 13 - Making Preservation Pencil Out
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Brother Van Museum Tour
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Cocktails and Conversations – Convention Area
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Banquet and Keynote Presentation
Saturday, September 28
8:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Conference registration – Convention Area
8:30 AM to 9:15 AM
Light Breakfast and Keynote Presentation
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent session 14 - Preservation and Politics
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent session 15 - Humans and the Environment
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent session 16 - Métis and Chippewa Cree Stories
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Concurrent session 17 - Teaching Montana History Recap
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent session 18 - New Blood
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent session 19 - A Federal State
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent session 20 - Away From Home
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Concurrent session 21 - Great Falls: City of Industry
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Lunch & Keynote Presentation
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Brother Van Museum Tour
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Great Falls North Side Historic District Walking Tour
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Indigenous Tea Workshop with Mariah Gladstone
2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Little Shell Tour
2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Belt Tour
2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Charlie and Nancy Russell Honeymoon Cabin
2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Fort Shaw Historic District Tour
2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
J. C. Adams Stone Barn
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
First Peoples Buffalo Jump Tour
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Kate Hampton
Montana Historical Society
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Troy Hallsell
341st Missile Wing, Malmstrom Air Force Base
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Chris La Tray
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Mariah Gladstone
Indigikitchen
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