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Ashley Whitehead Luskey, assistant director of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, talked about elite families in Richmond, Virginia, who hosted parties without refreshments as a sym…

Peter Carmichael, director of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute, talked about the range of literacy that Confederate soldiers had and how that impacted their communication with the …

Historians debated the strengths and weaknesses of Union Generals such as George McClellan, Ulysses Grant, Ambrose Burnside, and Joseph Hooker, and how they each interacted with their comman…

Battlefield guide Jeffrey Harding and Penn State University professor Jon Nese talked about how weather impacted the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. This program was part of Gettysburg Colle…

Historians discussed the generals such as Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood who led the Army of Tennessee, the principle Confederate army west of the Mississippi River. This program was part …

Union General George Meade, who was promoted to commander of the Army of the Potomac days before the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, was the topic of Civil War Institute scholarship co-direc…

Editors of “Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America” explored the ways advertisers and others used Civil War imagery to sell items after the war. This program was part of G…

Trevor Plante, textual records director at the National Archives, talked about the institution’s wide variety of Civil War letters, medical records, pension files and other documents. This p…

Historian Joan Waugh talked about the early life, education, and military career of Francis Barlow, known as the Boy General. This program was part of Gettysburg College’s annual Civil War I…

Author Patrick Breen discussed his book, The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt, at the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute’s annual summer conference.

Michelle Krowl is a Civil War and Reconstruction specialist with the Library of Congress Manuscript Division. She talked about the library’s collection and shared illustrated letters home fr…

Gary Gallagher has written or edited more than 30 books on Civil War history. His latest, The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis, collects more than 70 essays writt…

Louisiana State University Professor Aaron Sheehan-Dean discussed violence in the Civil War. Mr. Sheehan-Dean is the author of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War. T…

Historians discussed locations they deemed significant to the story of the Civil War. This panel was part of the annual summer conference hosted by the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute…

Brian Matthew Jordan and Evan Rothera are the co-editors of The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans, a collection of essays by 15 scholars which the editors said they …

Professor Barbara Krauthamer talked about using photography to chart the history of American slavery, both before and after emancipation. Professor Krauthamer discussed the “legacy of emanci…

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted a online discussion with Oklahoma State University History Professor Jennifer Murray. She was writing a book on Union General George Meade and t…

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted an online discussion with Nina Silber, author of This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America. Ms. Silber talked about the wa…

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted a online discussion with Scott Hartwig, former Gettysburg National Military Park historian and author of a book on Antietam. He described the ch…

Chris Gwinn, Gettysburg National Military Park interpretation and education chief, talked about the evolving interpretation of Little Round Top during the battle of Gettysburg and the role o…