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Overview
5/9/2024
Learn about fascinating topics in history and hear museum staff and occasional guest historians debate challenging questions. Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian dates and themes:
Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian: How Do We Know What We "Know" About the Past? (January 11, 2024): How is it possible for history to change? Using the period after the Civil War, known as Reconstruction, as a model, Naper Settlement will explore how historians make arguments about the past and how you can learn skills to separate the convincing from the make believe. Attendees can receive 1.0 CPDU credit.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian: Cold Nights, Cold War (February 8, 2024): Did you know that Naperville has a Cold War history? Learn about missile sites, emergency plans and training, and changes to the landscape that shaped Naperville during the decades of the Cold War. Attendees can receive 1.0 CPDU credit.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian: What Even Is Agriculture? (March 14, 2024): Humans invented agriculture and transformed the world—and themselves. Explore the past, present, and future of agriculture and the humans who make it possible. Attendees can receive 1.0 CPDU credit.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian: The End Of The World (As We Know It) (April 11, 2024): Journey through a series of historical events that were considered "the end of the world" to explore the idea of apocalypses and what it means to survive. Attendees can receive 1.0 CPDU credit.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Historian: A Strong Back & A Strong Mind (May 9, 2024): Join Naper Settlement's curators to learn how the museum's new exhibit "A Strong Back and a Strong Mind" developed and major stories of the Naperville Fire Department’s 150-year history. Attendees can receive 1.0 CPDU credit.
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