2015 Heritage Week Luncheon
The Cosmos Club
2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Thursday, April 16, 2015

The event started at noon with a social "hour," followed at 12:30pm with luncheon.  
PictureCarter L. Hudgins
Carter L. Hudgins talked on Pirates and Privateers, the Dutch and Their Impact on Jamestowne.  He is a native of the small Tidewater Virginia town of Franklin. Hudgins completed a BA at the University of Richmond and an MA at Wake Forest University prior to receiving the PhD in early American history at the College of William and Mary. Trained as an historian and archaeologist, Hudgins has interspersed work in both the public and private sector through his academic career. A field archaeologist with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources early in his career, he later served for seven years as director of Historic Charleston Foundation. Prior to his appointment to the faculties of Clemson University and the College of Charleston, Hudgins was a member of the history faculties at the University of Alabama/Birmingham where he implemented the graduate curriculum in public history and the University of Mary Washington where he was chairperson of both the Department of History and American Studies (2002-2008) and the Department of Historic Preservation (1984-1993), a program in which he held appointment as the Hofer Distinguished Professor of Early American Culture and Historic Preservation.


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Last Update: 16 April 2015