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Historical Hearth Cooks Demonstration
January 24th, 10am - 2pm
This event has been rescheduled from January 10th.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, treating the sick was very different than it is today. Treatments were largely based on medicinal herbs and spices as well as foraging the surrounding land. Most of the treatments were prepared by the woman of the house. Join us as we discuss early 1800s medical practices and make a couple of remedies that might have been prepared and served to the sick.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, treating the sick was very different than it is today. Treatments were largely based on medicinal herbs and spices as well as foraging the surrounding land. Most of the treatments were prepared by the woman of the house. Join us as we discuss early 1800s medical practices and make a couple of remedies that might have been prepared and served to the sick.
James K. Polk and the U.S. - Mexican War
February 7, 1-2pm
This presentation places James K. Polk into the larger context of U.S.-Mexican relations, and, most specifically, his role in the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), which led to the loss of half of Mexico's territory and, indirectly, to a heightening of the sectional conflict in the United States that led to the Civil War. Buchenau will especially focus on Mexico's perspective on Polk's war (and the U.S. more generally) but also incorporate Indigenous agency into what was far more complex than a bilateral conflict.
February 7, 2026
1-2pm
President James K. Polk State Historic Site
12031 Lancaster Hwy
Pineville, NC 28134
February 7, 2026
1-2pm
President James K. Polk State Historic Site
12031 Lancaster Hwy
Pineville, NC 28134
Jurgen Buchenau is the Dowd Term Chair of Capitalism Studies and Professor of History and Latin American Studies at UNC Charlotte. He earned his Ph.D. in History at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993. His research interests include modern Mexico, and especially political culture, immigration, international history, foreign travel writing, and the Mexican Revolution. His teaching interests feature the history of capitalism, U.S. foreign relations, and Latin American history. He is the author, co-author, and co-editor of thirteen books, including In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico’s Central America Policy (1996); Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1865-Present (2004); Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution (2007); Mexico, The Once and Future Revolution (2013, with Gilbert M. Joseph); and The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reforms, and Repression (2023), and The United States and Mexico: Unequal Neighbors (in press). He has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the U.S. Department of Education, and the German Academic Exchange Service, among many others. Buchenau teaches classes on modern Latin America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and the history of capitalism.
Tatting Demonstrations Thursdays
Join our volunteer Michele as she tatts from 10am-2pm every Thursday! Learn about the history of the art, how it's used, and how it survives today.
Try your hand at tatting with this free demonstration!
Interested in bringing a group to observe? Please email us at [email protected] for more information.
Try your hand at tatting with this free demonstration!
Interested in bringing a group to observe? Please email us at [email protected] for more information.
