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| YEAR | DATE | CONVENTION DIRECTOR / LOCATION | THEME | ATTENDANCE | PROGRAM COVER | LINK TO PHOTO ALBUM |
| 2024 | July 17-21 | Scott Landis Lancaster County Convention Center Lancaster PA | “From Hollywood to Historicon” | TBA | ||
| 2023 | July 19-23 | Joby Miller Lancaster County Convention Center Lancaster PA | “America: Expansion and Civil War, 1789 to 1897” | 2,334 |  |
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| 2022 | July 20-24 | Joby Miller Lancaster County Convention Center Lancaster PA | “World in Conflict: Italy” | 2,098 |  |
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| 2021 | November 10-14 | Joby Miller Valley Forge Casino Resort King of Prussia PA | “Aircraft of War: Balloons, Bombers, Helicopters, and more…” | 1,696 |  |
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| 2020 | July 8-12 | CANCELLED | ||||
| 2019 | July 10-14 | Joby Miller Lancaster Convention Center Lancaster PA | “Extreme Terrain Edition: Jungle Warfare” | 2,272 |  |
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| 2018 | July 11-15 | Joby Miller Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Wars of Conquest and those that lead them” | 2,510 |  |
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| 2017 | July 13-16 | Paul Delaney Fredericksburg Expo Fredericksburg VA | “100 Years of Tanks” | 2,342 |  |
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| 2016 | July 14-17 | Paul Delaney Fredericksburg Expo Fredericksburg VA | “Cavalry, Mounted warfare through the ages” | 2,336 |  |
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| 2015 | July 16-19 | Paul Delaney Fredericksburg Expo Fredericksburg VA | “End of Empires” | 2,450 |  |
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| 2014 | July 17-20 | Paul Delaney Fredericksburg Expo Fredericksburg VA | “Big Wars, Little Soldiers – World Wars throughout time” | 2,441 |  |
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| 2013 | July 18-21 | Paul Delaney Fredericksburg Expo Fredericksburg VA | “American Civil War, 1863 – the Year of Decision” | 2,727 |  |
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| 2012 | July 17-21 | John Drye Fredericksburg Expo Fredericksburg VA | “Empires at War: Colonial Warfare, Imperialism and Gunboat Diplomacy, 1836-1937” | 2,720 |  |
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| 2011 | July 17-19 | Bob Giglio Valley Forge Convention Ctr Valley Forge PA | “Brother Against Brother: The American Civil War,” 1861–1865 | 2,946 |  |
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| 2010 | July 8-11 | Bob Giglio Valley Forge Convention Ctr Valley Forge PA | “Pike and Shotte: Seventeenth Century Warfare,” 1600–1699 | 2,980 |  |
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| 2009 | July 16-19 | Bob Giglio Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Ride to the Sound of the Guns… -Napoleon’s 1809 Campaign and the Spanish Ulcer” | 3,565 |  |
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| 2008 | July 24-27 | Bob Giglio Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “The World on Fire – The first world war: The Seven Years and French & Indian Wars, 1754–63” | 3,667 |  |
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| 2007 | July 26-29 | Bob Giglio Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “The Wars of South Asia: Afghanistan, Burma, India and Pakistan, 1800–2007” | 3,272 |  |
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| 2006 | July 20-23 | Bob Giglio Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Africa’s Independence – The Wars of Africa,” 1905–2006 |  |
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| 2005 | July 21-24 | John Drye Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “The Age of Fighting Sail” |  |
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| 2004 | July 22-25 | John Drye Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “D-Day: 6 June 1944 and the Liberation of Western Europe” |  |
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| 2003 | July 24-27 | Pat Shields Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “The High Renaissance & the Rise of the Ottoman Empire: 1400-1566 AD” | 2,543 |  |
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| 2002 | July 25-28 | Pat Shields Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “1812: War on Two Continents” | 2,144 |  |
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| 2001 | July 19-22 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “The American Revolution 1777-1779 Years of the Hangman” | 1,924 |  |
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| 2000 | July 20-23 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “The Boxer Rebellion, 1900” | 2,263 |  |
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| 1999 | July 21-25 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Suvorov at War – 1799” | 2,096 |  |
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| 1998 | July 22-25 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Be a Rough Rider – ‘Charge!'” |  |
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| 1997 | July 24-27 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Victory at Sea The Battle of St. Vincent – 1797” |  |
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| 1996 | July 18-21 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Day of Reckoning” |  |
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| 1995 | July 20-23 | JT Thomas Lancaster Host Lancaster PA | “Sound the Charge” |  |
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| 1994 | July 21-24 | Bob Coggins Lancaster Host Lancaster PA |  |
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| 1993 | July 21-25 | Bob Coggins
Lancaster Host
Lancaster PA |
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| 1992 | July 23-26 | Bob Coggins
Lancaster Host
Lancaster PA |
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| 1991 | July 5-28 | Bob Coggins
Penn Harris
Camp Hill PA |
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| 1990 | July 26-29 | Bob Coggins
Penn Harris
Camp Hill PA |
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| 1989 | July 13-16 | Bob Coggins
Penn Harris
Camp Hill PA |
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| 1988 | July 14-17 | Bob Coggins
Penn Harris
Camp Hill PA |
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| 1987 | July 6-19 | Bob Coggins
Penn Harris
Camp Hill PA |
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| 1986 | August 7-10 | Pat Condray Sheraton New Carrollton MD | ||||
| 1985 | Cancelled for ORIGINS 85 | |||||
| 1984 | July 27-29 | Pat Condray Sheraton New Carrollton MD |  |
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