The Yorktown Victory Center, a museum of the American Revolution, presents three evening lectures on Sept. 14 and Sept. 28, and Oct. 5. The series leads to “Yorktown Victory Celebration,” Oct.19-20, in conjunction with 232nd anniversary of the decisive Revolutionary War victory. The evening lectures, free to the public, include:

September 14: "To, Through, and Beyond Virginia," James C. Kelly, chief of Museum Programs for the U.S. Army Center of Military History.

September 28: "'The Tyranny of the People': A Loyalist Perspective on the American Revolution," Holger Hoock, J. Carroll Amundson Professor of British History at the University of Pittsburgh.

October 5: "Painters and Paintings in the Early American South: 1735-1800," Carolyn J. Weekley, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Juli Grainger Curator Emerita.

The Saturday evening public lectures begin at 7 p.m. in the Yorktown Victory Center's Richard S. Reynolds Foundation Theater. Admission to the lectures is free, and advance reservations are recommended at (757) 253-4572 or rsvp@jyf.virginia.gov. The series is supported by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc.