The National Civil war Museum announces our eighth program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Dr. William B. Feis, who will present: "Grant's Military Intelligence."
Dr. Feis, Professor of history, Buena Vista University, is the author of Grant's Secret Service: The Intelligence War from Belmont to Appomattox (University of Nebraska Press, 2002) and co-author of For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012 (Free Press, 2012). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Civil War military intelligence. His research interests also include Iowa's role in the Civil War. He is currently working on a collection of primary documents entitled Iowa's War: The Civil War in Documents (Ohio University Press) and editing the memoirs of a prominent Iowa Civil War general.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
Hosted at The National Civil War Museum in partnership with the Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable
Living History Encampment:
Museum visitors will see the flash and smell the smoke of Civil War muskets and rifles. Visitors are encouraged to visit the camps and ask living historians questions about their attire, food rations and daily life. Most infantry groups perform loading and firing demonstrations each day. Saturday demonstrations are at 11am, 1pm & 3pm.
*Programs are weather contingent. Visitors should check the Museum’s website for updates to this schedule, as they are subject to change.
The National Civil war Museum presents our ninth program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Dr. Ashley Whitehead Luskey, who will present: "Richmond Women."
Dr. Ashley Whitehead Luskey is the Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, where she works closely with Gettysburg College students on a variety of original research-based Civil War and public history projects, coordinates the annual CWI summer conference, and gives tours of the battlefield to visitors. Prior to her arrival at CWI, Ashley worked for 10 years with the National Park Service, including most recently, an eight-year stint as a Park Ranger and historian at Richmond National Battlefield Park, where she helped co-organize and lead numerous special events for the Civil War Sesquicentennial. She is currently revising her dissertation manuscript, a cultural study of the wives and daughters of Confederate Richmond's leading generals, politicians, and businessmen, for publication.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
The National Civil War Museum announces the 13th annual Blue & Gray Gala to be held on Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 6:00pm. Gala Attendees will tour the Museum galleries as they journey through food and beverage pairings and see the extensive collection of artifacts on display in the Museum. Raffle drawing and silent auction will be conducted.
Tickets: $75.00 per person or (2) for $125.00
National Civil War Museum Member Ticket - $50.00
To make reservations CLICK HERE or by calling (717) 260-1861.
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The National Civil war Museum will offer the tenth program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Dr. David C. Willard: "Ruined Hopes and Broken Pride: Confederate Veterans and Their Worlds."
David C. Williard is a historian of the United States. He specializes in the transformative effects of war on the meaning of citizenship, with a particular interest in the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is at work on a book titled Confederate Legacy: The Problem of Soldierhood in the Post-Civil War South, and has a chapter titled "An Ideology Beyond Defeat" in Paul Quigley, ed, The Civil War and the Transformation of American Citizenship, currently under review at Louisiana State University Press. He teaches courses in modern United States history, the Civil War era, United States military history, slavery, emancipation, and civil rights, and violence in American history.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
The National Civil war Museum announces our eleventh program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Col. Doug Douds, USMC (RET): "United States Marines in the Civil War."
Colonel Douds, of Stroudsburg, PA, is a faculty member at the U.S. Army War College teaching the Carlisle Scholars Program seminar. He has served as a strategist and senior speechwriter in the Chairman's Action Group on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He commanded a Marine fighter attack squadron in Iraq prior to earning his master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College in June 2010. As an F/A-18 pilot, he has deployed multiple times, including two carrier deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf and a western Pacific deployment. He has completed the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Instructor's course, the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun), was the top honor graduate from the Amphibious Warfare School, and received two bachelor of arts degrees, in political science and history, from Wake Forest University. Doug is an avid historian and enjoys hosting educational tours of Gettysburg, PA, where he resides.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
The National Civil war Museum will offer the last program in our 2018 Series of 12 free lectures to the public with Patrick Shroeder, who will present: Zouaves: America's Forgotten Soldiers. This unique Civil War subject will have a slide show of more than 100 photographs of Zouaves, both North and South. Patrick will discuss the origins of Zouaves in North Africa, the French Zouaves distinguished exploits in the Crimean War and in Italy, and Elmer Ellsworth and the "Zouave craze" in America. Slides will demonstrate various styles of American Zouave uniforms as well as brief capsule histories on several famous Zouave units. there will be reproduction uniforms brought for display and details of this unique uniform explained.
Civil War Author/Historian - In the spring of 1990, Patrick A. Schroeder graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Historical Park Administration from Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV. He has a M.A. in Civil War History from Virginia Tech. Patrick has written, edited and/or contributed to more than twenty-five Civil War titles. Patrick resides in Lynchburg, VA, and has worked as an independent researcher, author, historian, and tour guide. In an effort to protect sites relevant to the Appomattox Campaign, Patrick has set up the "Appomattox Fund" with the Civil War Trust, to save land important to the climatic events of April 1865.
The 2018 Lessons in History program is free to the public. Regular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
