Confederate Starvation Parties
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…
778 viewsAshley 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…
778 viewsPeter 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 …
675 viewsHistorians 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…
826 viewsBattlefield 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…
813 viewsHistorians 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 …
577 viewsUnion 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…
1,158 viewsEditors 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…
745 viewsTrevor 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…
377 viewsHistorian 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…
573 viewsGettysburg College Professor Timothy Shannon taught a class on Colonial-era diplomatic ties between the Iroquois Confederacy of the eastern Great Lakes region and European settlers. He descr…
1,705 viewsThe 2021 Lincoln Prize, for “the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era” was awarded to Elizabeth Varon, auth…
417 viewsAuthor and historian Amy Greenberg talked about how the Mexican-American War set the stage for the Civil War. This event was hosted by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
519 viewsProfessor Allen Guelzo talked about Abraham Lincoln, his views on slavery, and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. Professor Guelzo described Lincoln’s upbringing and the career path that…
4,042 viewsAuthor 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.
2,614 viewsMichelle 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…
256 viewsGary 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…
1,140 viewsLouisiana 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…
1,908 viewsHistorians 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…
1,718 viewsBrian 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 …
338 viewsProfessor 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…
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