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SUMMARY:INDEPENDENCE: The True Story of Dr. Mary Walker
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe National Civil War Museum Proudly Presents INDEPENDENCE: The True Story of Dr. Mary Walker\, with Kathie Barnes as Dr. Mary Walker\, written and directed by Lloyd J. Schwartz\, and produced by Tina Dwyer on Saturday\, April 20\, 2024\, at 1:00 pm\, and is Free to the public. This one-act play is followed by a Q&A with the actress. \nAbout the play: A women’s history play about Dr. Mary Walker – Civil War Surgeon\, Heroine\, and Positive Role Model. This theatre piece brings to the forefront the life of Doctor Mary Edwards Walker\, the Only Woman to have been awarded our country’s highest honor\, The Congressional Medal of Honor. Living in an era when women had few rights\, Dr. Walker didn’t take ‘No’ for an answer\, becoming one of the first women to wear pants\, to take ‘obey’ out of her marriage vows and the first woman surgeon in the US. A trailblazer for Women’s Rights\, Dr. Mary Walker was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. Several hospitals bear her name\, yet most people do not know of her. Dr. Mary Walker is truly a heroine who needs to be known – and through the powerful art of theatre\, this is her story. \nINDEPENDENCE premiered at Convention Days\, the annual celebration of Women’s Rights in Seneca Falls\, NY\, booked as one of the main events for Mary Walker Day in her hometown – the Town of Oswego\, NY\, – and has been performed in theatres\, and universities (including Princeton University) and high schools. \nAbout the Artists: \nKATHIE BARNES (Dr. Mary Walker) has enjoyed a wide variety of roles in film\, television and even digital having been a series regular in Warner Brothers first online series DECEPTION. Other favorite roles include a semi­ regular role on ABC’s “All My Children”\, Laura in “The Guiding Light” and Nona in the film “Jimmi”. She previously worked with author/director Lloyd J. Schwartz on two of her favorite theatrical roles\, “What Are We Going to Say to Her?” and the poignant “Poems for Mary.” Other favorite theatre roles include Agnes in “Dancing at Lughnasa” (Beverly Hills Outlook Award – Best Actress nomination)\, Cora in “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs”\, and Deeny in “The  Old  Neighborhood”.  Also\, Emily and The Wife in “Bradbury X 2” (Valley Theatre League Award – Best Actress nomination) produced by Ray Bradbury’s Pandemonium Theatre Company. As a member of Ray Bradbury’s extended family\, she was asked to read a passage written by Ray at the “Ray Bradbury Read” in Los Angeles in August 2016 along with Joe Montegna and others. She has also been privileged to bring to life some of Ray Bradbury’s other exquisitely written characters\, including Blanch Hillgood in ‘The Day It Rained Forever” and Helen Loomis in ‘The Swan”. Other interests include Saving the Tiger – and anything to do with tigers. A lifelong dream came true in 2016 when she went to India and stayed on Tiger Reserves\, living with and tracking tigers in the wild. \nShe notes that Dr. Mary Walker is truly a hero and she is honored to portray her. \nLLOYD J. SCHWARTZ (Playwright/Director) Though a prolific writer/ producer in TV and Movies (Brady Bunch\, Gilligan’s Island\, Alice\, and Baywatch)\, Lloyd is proudest of his accomplishments in theatre. He has had 34 produced plays and has won 16 Valley Theatre League Awards in directing and writing for comedies\, dramas\, musicals and children’s theatre. In 1985\, Schwartz co-founded The Storybook Theatre of Los Angeles with his wife\, Barbara Mallory. Storybook Theatre has been honored by both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. \nLloyd’s inspiration to write this play:  “I subscribe to ‘American History’ magazine. I came across a one-page article about Dr. Mary Walker.  I had never heard of her\, but her life was fascinating.  Why didn’t I know her? Why didn’t everybody?” \nTINA DWYER (Producer) Once completing her degree in Women’s and Gender Studies at The College of New Jersey she pursues her passion in bringing untold stories of the many women who have marched before us and for us. As Producer\, Tina contacts venues\, universities and theaters \, seeks sponsors\, creates bookings\, negotiates contracts and for some productions gives cues in the booth. She also spearheads and books outreach workshops in association with performances\, as well as she and Kathie guest lecture in classes on Women’s Studies. \nWhat Tina hopes you take away from seeing this play: ALL POSITIVE ROLE MODELS ARE IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE! \nhttp://independencedrmarywalker.com\nmwalkerindependence@gmail.com \nINDEPENDENCE was developed at Theatre West\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/independence-the-true-story-of-dr-mary-walker/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Civil Conversation w/Dr. Robert K.D. Colby via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, May 2\, 2024\, at 7:00 pm for a CIVIL CONVERSATION. This is a live ZOOM event ~ Dr. Robert K. D. Colby\, author of An Unholy Traffic will engage in a Civil Conversation with NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols. Register here: Civil Conversation with Dr. Robert Colby \nAbout the book: The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery and\, after a four-year struggle to become an independent slaveholding republic\, died as emancipation dawned. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox\, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men\, women\, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society\, a bulwark of the Rebel economy\, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South. \nAs An Unholy Traffic shows\, slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War\, as well as to build the future for which they fought. They mitigated the crises the war spawned by buying and selling enslaved people\, using this commerce to navigate food shortages\, unsettled gender roles\, the demands of military service\, and other hardships on the home front. Some Rebels speculated wildly in human property\, investing in slaves to ward off inflation and to buy shares in the slaveholding nation they hoped to create. Others traded people to counter the advance of emancipation. Given its centrality to their nationhood\, Confederates went to great lengths to prolong the slave trade\, which\, in turn\, supported the Confederacy. For those held in slavery\, the surviving slave trade dramatically shaped their pursuit of freedom\, inserting a retrograde movement into some people’s journeys toward liberty while inspiring others to make the risky decision to escape \nOffering an original perspective on the intersections of slavery\, capitalism\, the Civil War\, and emancipation\, Robert K.D. Colby illuminates the place of the peculiar institution within the Confederate mind\, the ways in which it underpinned the CSA’s war effort\, and its impact on those attempting to seize their freedom. \nAbout the author: Dr. Robert K.D. Colby is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His research on the domestic slave trade has won multiple awards\, including the Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of American Historians.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/a-civil-conversation-w-dr-robert-k-d-colby-via-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Lessons in History w/John Reeves\, A Fire in the Wilderness
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our in-person event: Lessons in History\, Saturday\, May 11\, 2024\, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ~ John Reeves\, A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee \nAuthor John  Reeves tells the story of the first bloody showdown between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in May 1864; when the future of the United States depended on the Union Army’s success in a desolate forest roughly sixty-five miles from the nation’s capital. \nGuests can tour the Museum Galleries for an entrance fee of $16.00 for Adults\, $15.00 for Seniors and AAA\, and $14.00 for Students and Military. Admission to the presentation is free. \n  \nAbout the Author; John Reeves is the author of The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee and A Fire in the Wilderness: The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. He has been a teacher\, editor\, and writer for over twenty-five years. The Civil War\, in particular\, has been his passion since he first read Bruce Catton’s The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War as an elementary school student in the 1960s. John’s articles on Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant have been featured in The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, and on the History News Network.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/lessons-in-history-w-john-reeves-a-fire-in-the-wilderness/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer\, with NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols
DESCRIPTION:The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer\, with NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols\, welcoming bestselling historian Harold Holzer to Harrisburg for a conversation and signing on his new novel\, Brought Forth on This Continent”: Abraham Lincoln and America Immigration. This event is free and open to the public. \nTo enter the signing line\, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event\, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment. Preordered copies will not be signed until after the event. \n\n\n\n\n\nPREORDER A SIGNED COPY\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer\, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. \nIn the three decades before the Civil War\, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States\, forever altering the nation’s demographics\, culture\, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy\, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly\, at times violent\, vein of nativist bigotry. \nAbraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln’s Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war made clear just how important immigrants were\, and how interwoven they had become in American society. \nHarold Holzer\, winner of the Lincoln Prize\, charts Lincoln’s political career through the lens of immigration\, from his role as a member of an increasingly nativist political party to his evolution into an immigration champion\, a progression that would come at the same time as he refined his views on abolition and Black citizenship. As Holzer writes\, “The Civil War could not have been won without Lincoln’s leadership; but it could not have been fought without the immigrant soldiers who served and\, by the tens of thousands\, died that the ‘nation might live.’” An utterly captivating and illuminating work\, Brought Forth on This Continent assesses Lincoln’s life and legacy in a wholly original way\, unveiling remarkable similarities between the nineteenth century and the twenty-first. \nAbout the Author: \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarold Holzer is the recipient of the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era\, Holzer was appointed chairman of the US Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission by President Bill Clinton and awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. He currently serves as the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College\, City University of New York.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/the-midtown-scholar-bookstore-presents-an-evening-with-harold-holzer-with-ncwm-ceo-jeffrey-nichols/
LOCATION:the Midtown Bookstore\, 1302 North 3rd St.\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17102\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor - Lessons in History Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our In-Person Lessons in History Speaker Series as Dr. Bradley M. Gottfried discusses his new book\, The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House Through Cold Harbor\, Including all Cavalry Operations\, May 7 through June 3\, 1864\, on Saturday\, June 15\, 2024\, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm.  \nAbout the book: The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House Through Cold Harbor\, Including all Cavalry Operations\, May 7 through June 3\, 1864\, continues the actions of both armies through the completion of the Overland Campaign. After the Wilderness fighting\, the Army of the Potomac attempted to swing around the right flank of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and shoot straight for Richmond. The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor breaks down the entire operation into thirty-five map sets or “action sections” enriched with 134 detailed full-page color maps. \nAbout the author: Born and raised in Philadelphia\, Brad Gottfried earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from Miami University and spent four decades as an educator in higher education. He has served as a full-time faculty member\, department head\, campus dean\, chief academic officer and president. Before retiring in 2017\, he served as President of Sussex County Community College (NJ) and College of Southern Maryland for the past 17 years. His interest in the Civil War began at an early age and was rekindled when he returned to an administrative position in the Philadelphia area. His fourteenth book was recently published. His early writing primarily centered on the Battle of Gettysburg\, and he wrote five books on this topic. He has also written two brigade-level histories. His current “niche” is map books\, where he thoroughly describes campaigns through the use of maps. Seven books have been published in this series: Gettysburg\, First Bull Run\, Antietam\, Fredericksburg\, Cavalry at Gettysburg\, Bristoe/Mine Run\, and the Wilderness\, have been published. The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor will be published next. He is also working on a variety of other Civil War-related projects. In addition to writing\, Brad is an Antietam Certified Battlefield Guide and a Gettysburg Licensed Town Guide. He may have retired\, but he is still an educator. Brad is married to his wife\, Linda and between them\, they have four grown children and six grandchildren. The Gottfrieds moved from Southern Maryland to Fayetteville\, Pennsylvania\, which is just west of Gettysburg. \nThe 2024 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 follow CDC\, OSHA/HHS guidance\, and orders and recommendations from federal/state/local governments and our state and local health officials.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/the-maps-of-spotsylvania-through-cold-harbor-lessons-in-history-presentation/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Juneteenth Community Free Day
DESCRIPTION:The National Civil War Museum proudly presents the NCWM Juneteenth Community Free Day on\nSaturday\, June 22\, 2024\, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. Join us for a day filled with family-friendly activities\, all free of charge.\n1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church Praise Team Choir – Ballroom \n10:00 am – 4:00 pm African American Quilters Demonstration \nThompson’s Independent Battery C\, PA Light Artillery\, will demonstrate a Mountain Howitzer with firing times at 10:00 am\, 11:30 am\, and 2:30 pm. \nPlease check back often for new activities and the full event schedule. \nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/juneteenth-community-free-day/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil Conversation - The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Civil Conversation via ZOOM – Free\nOn Wednesday\, June 26\, 2024\, at 7:00 pm\, we invite you to join us via Zoom for an enriching Civil Conversation. This event will showcase the insightful perspectives of Duncan A. Campbell and Neils Eichhorn\, alongside NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols\, promising a thought-provoking discussion. Mark your calendars now! \nRegister here: A Civil Conversation on The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism with Niels Eichhorn & Duncan Campbell \nAbout the book: While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race\, slavery\, and emancipation were not unique to the American Civil War\, they have less frequently recognized the conflict’s similarities to other global events. As renowned historian Carl Degler pointed out\, the Civil War was “one among many” such conflicts during the mid-nineteenth century. Understanding the Civil War’s place in world history requires placing it within a global context of other mid-nineteenth-century political\, social\, and cultural issues and events. In The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism\, Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell explore the conflict from this perspective\, taking a transnational and comparative approach\, with a particular focus on the period from the 1830s to the 1870s. \nEichhorn and Campbell examine the development of nationalism and its frequent manifestation\, secession\, by comparing the American experience with that of several other nations\, including Germany\, Hungary\, and Brazil. They compare the Civil War to the Crimean and Franco-German wars to determine whether the American conflict was the first modern war. To gauge the potential of foreign intervention in the Civil War\, they look to the time’s developing international debate on the legality of intercession and mediation in other nations’ insurgencies. \nUsing the experiences of Indigenous peoples in the Americas\, Africa\, and the Antipodes\, Eichhorn and Campbell suggest the extent to which the United States was an imperial project. To examine realpolitik\, they study four vastly different practitioners—Otto von Bismarck\, Louis Napoleon\, Count Cavour\, and Abraham Lincoln. Finally\, they compare emancipation in the United States to that in Peru and the end of forced servitude in Russia\, closing with a comparison of the memorialization of the Civil War with the experiences of other post-emancipation societies and an examination of how other nations mythologized their past conflicts and ignored uncomfortable truths in the pursuit of reconciliation. \nThe Civil War in the Age of Nationalism avoids the limitations of American exceptionalism\, making it the first genuine comparative and transnational study of the Civil War in an international context. \nAbout the authors: \nNiels Eichhorn is the author of Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists\, Southern Secession\, and the American Civil War. He lives in Wels\, Austria. \nDuncan A. Campbell is professor of history at National University in San Diego and the author of Unlikely Allies: Britain\, America and the Victorian Origins of the Special Relationship.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch "Voices from Gettysburg" by Allen C. Guelzo
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book launch on Wednesday\, July 3\, 2024 at 1:00 pm\, with Allen C. Guelzo and his new book Voices from Gettysburg\, Letters\, Papers\, and Memoirs from the Greatest Battle of the Civil War. \nAbout the book: The voices of those who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath with their own eyes – who saw the bloodshed\, heard its din\, trembled in its crash\, struggled with its aftermath – are collected for the first time by Allen C. Guelzo\, America’s foremost Civil War scholar\, in this moving and sobering oral history. \nThis treasure trove of original documents – many never-before published – creates a uniquely personal\, day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg\, in the words of the commanders\, soldiers\, politicians\, and civilians from both the North and the South who experienced firsthand the changing course of the Civil War. \nThree pivotal days in 1963 – July 1st through July 3rd – marked the beginning of the end of the Civil War. While the audible voices of those who experienced it first-hand in that crossroads town of Gettysburg\, Pennsylvania have been lost to history\, their words live on in Voices from Gettysburg. \nGathering a treasure trove of powerful\, rare\, and haunting original documents\, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo presents a uniquely readable and intimate oral history of the Civil War’s turning point. We hear from a Union staff officer\, a Confederate amputee\, artilleryman\, a sympathetic Northern woman\, a Union prisoner-of-war\, Union colonels and Confederate generals\, a drummer boy\, a fearful college student\, those who orchestrated the Battle of Gettysburg\, those who survived it\, and those who would perish. \nWith introductions from Guelzo\, a detailed order of battle\, and comprehensive list of every unit that fought\, each of these original maps\, personal letters\, excerpts from forgotten memoirs\, and more never-before-published documents offers an unprecedented narrative of the Great Rebellion and the impetus for Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address – in the authentic words of fire\, blood\, and smoke by those who saw the battle\, heard its din\, trembled in its crash\, and struggled with its aftermath. \nAbout the author: Allen C. Guelzo is a New York Times best-selling author\, senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University\, and the director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship for Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. His acclaimed nonfiction books about the Civil War and early nineteenth-century American history\, include The New York Times bestseller Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (Knopf)\, Robert E. Lee: A Life (Knopf)\, Reconstruction:  A Concise History (Oxford University Press)\, and Redeeming the Great Emancipator (Harvard University Press). He is a three-time recipient of the Lincoln Prize and many other honors\, including the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize for Military History and Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year. He lives in Pennsylvania.  Learn more at AllenGuelzo.com. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/book-launch-voices-from-gettysburg-by-allen-c-guelzo/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Unvanquished-A Civil War Book Talk-Via ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:The Unvanquished\nThe Untold Story of Lincoln’s Special Forces\, the Manhunt for Mosby’s Rangers\, and the Shadow War That Forged America’s Special Operations\nJoin Us for This Free Zoom Civil War Book Talk ~ Register here: A Civil War Book Talk with Patrick K. O’Donnell\nby Patrick K. O’Donnell \n\nFrom the bestselling author of The Indispensables\, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern special operations forces \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg\, Antietam\, Shiloh\, among others. However\, as bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished\, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields that was in many ways equally consequential to the conflict’s outcome. \nAt the heart of this groundbreaking narrative is the epic story of Lincoln’s special forces\, the Jessie Scouts\, told in its entirety for the first time. In a contest fought between irregular units\, the Scouts hunted John Singleton Mosby’s Confederate Rangers from the middle of 1863 up to war’s end at Appomattox. With both sides employing pioneering tradecraft\, they engaged in dozens of raids and spy missions\, often perilously wearing the other’s uniform\, risking penalty of death if captured. Clashing violently on horseback\, the unconventional units attacked critical supply lines\, often capturing or killing high-value targets. North and South deployed special operations that could have changed the war’s direction in 1864\, and crucially during the Appomattox Campaign\, Jessie Scouts led the Union army to a final victory. They later engaged in a history-altering proxy war against France in Mexico\, earning seven Medals of Honor; many Scouts mysteriously disappeared during that conflict\, taking their stories to their graves. \nAn expert on special operations\, O’Donnell transports readers into the action\, immersing them in vivid battle scenes from previously unpublished firsthand accounts. He introduces indelible characters such as Scout Archibald Rowand; Scout leader Richard Blazer; Mosby\, the master of guerrilla warfare; and enslaved spy Thomas Laws. O’Donnell also b \nrings to light the Confederate Secret Service’s covert efforts to deliver the 1864 election to Peace Democrats through ballot fraud\, election interference\, and attempts to destabilize a population fatigued by a seemingly forever war. Most audaciously\, the Secret Service and Mosby’s Rangers planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln in order to maintain the South’s independence. \nA little-known chronicle of the shadow war between North and South\, rich in action and offering original perspective on history\, The Unvanquished is a dynamic and essential addition to the literature of the Civil War. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick K. O’Donnell is a bestselling\, critically acclaimed military historian and an expert on elite units. The author of thirteen books\, including The Indispensables\, The Unknowns\, and Washington’s Immortals\, he is the recipient of numerous national awards. O’Donnell served as a combat historian in a Marine rifle platoon during the Battle of Fallujah and is a professional speaker on America’s conflicts\, espionage\, special operations\, and counterinsurgency. He has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’ award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers and for documentaries produced by the BBC\, the History Channel\, and Discovery. \nRead More About Patrick K. O’Donnell \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick K. O’Donnell’s Website
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SUMMARY:Lessons in History-Dr. Scott Hippensteel
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, August 3\, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm\, as Dr. Scott Hippensteel presents Sand\, Science\, and the Civil War:  Sedimentary Geology and Combat. \nAdmission to the Lessons in History Speaker Series is Free to the public. Guests can tour the Museum Galleries for an entrance fee of $16.00 for Adults\, $15.00 for Seniors and AAA\, and $14.00 for Students and Military. \nAbout the Book: The influence of sedimentary geology on the strategy\, combat\, and tactics of the American Civil War is a subject that has been neglected by military historians. Sedimentary geology influenced everything from the nature of the landscape (flat vs. rolling terrain) to the effectiveness of the weapons (a single grain of sand can render a rifle musket as useless as a club). Sand\, Science\, and the Civil War: Sedimentary Geology and Combat investigates the role of sedimentary geology on the campaigns and battles of the Civil War on multiple scales\, with a special emphasis on the fighting along the coastlines. \nAt the start of the Civil War the massive brick citadels guarding key coastal harbors and shipyards were thought to be invincible to artillery attack. The Union bombardment of Savannah’s key defensive fortification\, Fort Pulaski\, demonstrated the vulnerability of this type of fortress to the new rifled artillery available to the Union; the fort surrendered within a day. When the Union later tried to capture the temporary sand fortifications of Battery Wagner (protecting Charleston) and Fort Fisher (protecting Wilmington) they employed similar tactics but with disastrous results. The value of sand in defensive positions vastly minimized the Federal advantage in artillery\, making these coastal strongpoints especially costly to capture. Through this geologically centered historic lens\, Scott Hippensteel explores the way sediments and sedimentary rocks influenced the fighting in all theaters of war and how geologic resources were exploited by both sides during the five years of conflict.   \nAbout the Author: Scott Hippensteel\, a Professor of Earth Sciences\, joined the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2000 after completing his MS and PhD in Geology at the University of Delaware.  For his first decade in North Carolina his research centered on using fossils to solve environmental problems.  The published results of this research included journal articles and book chapters concerning paleotempestology (the study of ancient storms)\, bioturbation (the mixing of sediments by critters)\, military geoarchaeology (of the barrier islands surrounding Charleston\, SC) and Earth Science pedagogy. \nIn 2004 Hippensteel joined the research team in Charleston studying the most fascinating Civil War artifact he had ever seen:  The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.  His research pertaining to the submarine involves using microfossils to interpret the sediment infilling history of the vessel and provide insights into the reasons for the exceptional preservation of the crew. \nThis interest in the relationship between geology and the American Civil War is reflected in Hippensteel’s current research agenda and publications\, all of which focus on the synthesis of natural and military sciences.  In addition to several recent journal articles on the geology of Civil War battlefields and landscapes\, he has written three books. The first\, Rocks and Rifles: The Influence of Geology on the Combat and Tactics of the American Civil War\, is intended for audiences interested in either American history or geology (or\, hopefully\, both) and was published by Springer-Nature in 2019. Myths of the Civil War: The Fact\, Fiction\, and Science behind the Civil War’s Most-Told Stories (2021)\, uses mathematics and physics to shatter many of the most cherished and oft-repeated stories from the American Civil War.  Hippensteel’s most recent book is Sand\, Science\, and the Civil War:  Sedimentary Geology and Combat\, was published by the University of Georgia Press as a contribution to their well-regarded UnCivil War Series.  This book has gained significant attention\, excellent reviews\, and was named one of the top ten books of 2023 by Civil War Books and Authors.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/lessons-in-history-dr-scott-hippensteel/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil Conversation: Decade of Disunion
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 12\, 2024\, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm\, our newest Civil Conversation explores “Decade of Disunion.” This discussion between NCWM CEO\, Jeffrey Nichols\, and author Robert W. Merry is free via ZOOM. \nJoin us here via ZOOM: Civil War Book Talk with Robert W. Merry \nAbout the Book: Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever\, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s. \nThe Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States\, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new territories seemed unsuitable for the type of agriculture that depended on slave labor\, but they lay south of the line where slavery was permitted by the 1820 Missouri Compromise. The subject of expanding slavery to the new territories became a flash point between North and South. \nFirst came the 1850 compromise legislation\, which strengthened the fugitive slave law and outraged the North. Then in 1854\, Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise altogether\, unleashing a violent conflict in “Bleeding Kansas” over whether that territory would become free or slave. The 1857 Dred Scott decision—abrogating any rights of African Americans\, enslaved or free—further outraged the North. And John Brown’s ill-planned 1859 attack at the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry stirred anger and fear throughout the South. \nThrough a decade\, South Carolina\, whose economy depended heavily on slave labor\, struggled over whether to secede in a stand-alone act of defiance or to do so only in conjunction with other states. Meanwhile\, Massachusetts became the country’s antislavery epicenter but debated whether the Constitution was worth saving in the effort to abolish bondage. Both states widened the divide between North and South until disunion became inevitable. Then\, in December 1860\, in the wake of the Lincoln election\, South Carolina finally seceded\, leading the South out of the Union. \nBeginning with the deaths of the great second-generation figures of American history—Calhoun\, Webster\, and Clay—Decade of Disunion tells the story of this great American struggle through the aims\, fears\, and maneuvers of the subsequent prominent figures at the center of the drama\, with particular attention to the key players from Massachusetts and South Carolina. \nThis history is a sobering reminder that democracy is not self-sustaining—it must be constantly and carefully tended. \nRobert W. Merry\nAbout the author: Robert W. Merry is the author of five previous books\, including President McKinley: Architect of the American Century and A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk\, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent. He spent a decade covering Washington for The Wall Street Journal and served as an executive at Congressional Quarterly Inc. for twenty-two years\, including twelve years as CEO. He also is the former editor of The National Interest and The American Conservative. He lives with his wife\, Susan\, in Langley\, Washington\, and Washington\, DC. \nPhotograph by Gregory Strom
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/civil-conversation-decade-of-disunion/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with David S. Brown at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce our continued partnership with Midtown Scholar Bookstore for the upcoming book launch and interview featuring author David S. Brown. NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols will sit down with David S. Brown to discuss his latest book\, Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas\, the End of Compromise\, and the Coming of the Civil War. \nIn this compelling new work\, Brown delves into the pivotal events of 1854\, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act unexpectedly triggered one of the most significant political miscalculations in American history. This act deepened the divide between North and South\, gave rise to the Republican Party\, and set the stage for the Civil War. \nThe event will begin at 7:00 pm\, followed by a Q&A session and a book signing. \nAbout David S. Brown \nDavid S. Brown is a history professor at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania and the author of seven books. His notable works include The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson\, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams\, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald\, and Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biograph \nhttps://www.midtownscholar.com/calendar/2024/9/17/an-evening-with-david-s-brown-a-hell-of-a-storm \n 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/an-evening-with-david-s-brown-at-the-midtown-scholar-bookstore/
LOCATION:the Midtown Bookstore\, 1302 North 3rd St.\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cocktails & Cannonballs - 2024
DESCRIPTION:Our largest fundraiser of the year is just around the corner – Join us on Friday\, September 20\, 2024\, 6:00 pm – 8:30 p.m. Enjoy a rare evening at the National Civil War Museum! \nThe National Civil War Museum is thrilled to announce the return of our highly anticipated fundraising event\, Cocktails and Cannonballs. Please mark your calendars for Friday\, September 20\, 2024\, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM\, and join us for an evening of history\, libations\, and lively conversation at one of the nation’s premier Civil War museums. \nBuilding on the success of last year’s event\, Cocktails and Cannonballs offers a unique blend of entertainment and education. Attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy specially crafted cocktails while exploring the museum’s extensive collection of Civil War artifacts. The evening will feature live music\, exclusive access to exhibits\, and a variety of delicious hors d’oeuvres. \nThis event is not just about enjoying a great evening—it’s about supporting the museum’s mission to preserve and interpret the history of the American Civil War for future generations. Proceeds from the event will directly benefit the museum’s educational programs and preservation efforts. \nEvent Details: \n\nDate: Friday\, September 20\, 2024\nTime: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM\nLocation: The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle\, Harrisburg\, PA\n\nTickets:  $50/member $75/person $125/couple and tickets can be purchased here: https://bit.ly/2024CocktailsandCannonballs \nThis is a must-attend event for history enthusiasts and supporters of the museum. Don’t miss your chance to experience the National Civil War Museum in a whole new light—literally and figuratively—as we raise our glasses to history. \n• Stroll the galleries with living historians.\n• Sample regional cuisine paired with Civil War themed cocktails.\n• Shop the silent auction.\n• Explore soldier’s camps by firelight and make yourself a s’more.\n• Sample a Civil War Sundae.\n• Try your luck at the wine pull\, soldier’s games\, trivia and raffles.\n• Visit the cigar bar and coffee corner.\n• Win a chance to fire a cannon at the close of the evening. \nAll proceeds benefit The National Civil War Museum’s educational programs\, building fund and artifact preservation.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/cocktails-cannonballs-2024/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil War Saturday
DESCRIPTION:The National Civil War Museum is proud to announce its highly anticipated event\, Civil War Saturday\, which promises to take visitors on a journey through the turbulent era of the American Civil War. This event will take place on Saturday\, September 21\, 2023\, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM at The National Civil War Museum\, located at 1 Lincoln Circle\, Harrisburg\, PA. \nCivil War Saturday is an educational and engaging experience for visitors of all ages. It offers a unique opportunity to step back and gain a deeper understanding of one of the most pivotal periods in American history. With a wide range of activities and exhibits\, attendees can explore the complexities of the Civil War era from various perspectives. \nAdmission to Civil War Saturday is as follows: \n\nAdults: $10.00\nChildren under 18: Free\n\nMembers of The National Civil War Museum receive free admission\,
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/civil-war-saturday-2/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tour Antietam with the Staff of the NCWM- Saturday\, October 12\, 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of The National Civil War Museum on a unique tour of the Antietam Battlefield. This tour includes a guided tour of the battlefield and will feature artifacts and items from our collection that help to tell the story of the soldiers who fought in the struggle. Tour participants can hold historical treasures used or associated with the Union and Confederate Army engaged at Antietam. The cost includes transportation\, lunch\, and a guided tour with artifacts from The National Civil War Museum collection. \nCost:  \nNCWM Members $175.00 \nNon-members $200.00 \nSchedule for the Day\n7:15 am Registration at NCWM\n7:30 am Bus departs from NCWM.\n9:45 am Registration for attendees meeting the bus at the Antietam Battlefield Visitors Center.\n10:00 am – 12:00 pm Battlefield tour with Licensed Battlefield Guide and NCWM Artifacts\n12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Box lunches provided by Battleview Market & Deli at Antietam Creek Winery pavilion. Each guest will receive a complimentary glass of wine or soft drink with lunch. Additional wine may be purchased at this time.\n1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Complete our battlefield tour.\n3:00 pm Bus departs Antietam NMP VC and returns to Harrisburg.\nAnticipated Arrival back to the NCWM at 5:00 pm \nRegister here: https://bit.ly/NCWMAntietamTour2024 \nSee the flyer here: CivilWar_AntietamFlyer_8.5x11_FinalCivilWar_AntietamFlyer_8.5x11_Final
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/tour-antietam-with-the-staff-of-the-ncwm-saturday-october-12-2024/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory
DESCRIPTION:Our Civil Conversation features Court Carney and NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols discussing Dr. Carney’s new release Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory\, free via ZOOM. Join us on Thursday\, October 17\, 2024\, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm by using this link to register: \nA Civil Conversation with Court Carney – Nathan Bedford Forrest \nAbout the book – Court Carney’s Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled\, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a slave trader\, Confederate general\, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his death\, Forrest’s image continues to resonate with certain groups and bear varied interpretations\, reflecting the intricate interplay of history\, memory\, and a contested past. Carney explores how historical omissions and erasures continually reshape perceptions of Forrest as well as the Civil War. \nCentral to Forrest’s narrative is his involvement in the slave trade\, a key to his ascent in the southern social hierarchy. Carney traces Forrest’s trajectory from a prosperous slave trader in Memphis to a politician and eventual military leader in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Forrest’s postwar years reveal his struggle to rebuild his life\, leading him to engage in various economic ventures and eventually join the Ku Klux Klan. Carney argues that the slave trade\, the Fort Pillow massacre\, and his Klan affiliation were the fundamental elements shaping Forrest’s image. Those elements\, although steeped in racism and white supremacy\, were marked by an ambiguity and malleability that allowed Forrest to attract admirers as well as detractors as his image was memorialized in postwar white southern culture. \nCarney covers distinct phases of Forrest’s memorialization\, from the unveiling of statues in Memphis in 1905 to his representation in literature and media and the controversies surrounding his monuments in the 2010s. That history culminates with the removal of the Memphis statue in 2017\, reflecting the evolving societal perspectives on symbols tied to racism. Forrest’s significance lies in his capacity to encompass conflicting narratives—hero and villain\, rebel and patriot. Carney contends that understanding Forrest’s legacy is essential for comprehending the intricacies of the southern past and its enduring impact on American society. By exploring the fluidity of Forrest’s image\, Carney’s work illuminates the nuanced interplay of history\, memory\, and the ongoing struggle to reckon with a tumultuous past. \nAbout the author – Dr. Court Carney is professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University. He is the author of Cuttin’ Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear and coeditor of The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me. In 2023\, Dr. Carney published a collection of essays (co-edited with Erin C. Callahan) on Bob Dylan and his use of setlists. This book\, The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances\, published by Routledge\, features thirteen essays (and a series of sonnets) focused on various aspects of Dylan’s live performances. The Table of Contents can be found here. \nHis first book\, Cuttin’ Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear\, published by the University Press of Kansas\, looks at the origin of jazz and its diffusion through phonograph records\, radio\, and film in the 1920s and 1930s.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/reckoning-with-the-devil-nathan-bedford-forrest-in-myth-and-memory/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lessons in History ~ Wide Awake: The Movement That Elected Lincoln and Ignited the Civil War 
DESCRIPTION:We are honored to host a Civil War Book Talk featuring Smithsonian historian\, Dr. Jon Grinspan\, as he discusses his book Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War. A book signing will follow his lecture.  Make your plans now for Friday\, November 15\, 2024\, at 5:30 pm to join us for this free\, in-person event. \nAbout the book: Wide Awake: The Movement That Elected Lincoln and Ignited the Civil War \n At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign\, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon\, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men\, and several women\, were organizing boisterous\, uniformed\, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes–mostly working-class Americans in their twenties–became one of the largest\, most spectacular\, and most influential political movements in our history. To some\, it demonstrated the power of a rising majority to push back against slavery. To others\, it looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. Within a year\, the nation would be at war with itself\, and many on both sides would point to the Wide Awakes as the mechanism that got them there.  \nEvent Details:   \nTitle: Civil War Book Talk – Wide Awake with author Dr. Jon Grinspan  \nDate: Friday\, November 15\, 2024  \nTime: 5:30 pm \nVenue: The National Civil War Museum  \nAdmission: Free to the public  \nJon Grinspan is the Curator of Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is the author of the award-winning The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy Social\, Politics \n Personal\, and Voting Popular in the 19th Century. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Washington Post\, and other prominent publications. Grinspan resides in Washington\, D.C. 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/lessons-in-history-wide-awake-the-movement-that-elected-lincoln-and-ignited-the-civil-war/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Savings and Trust - A Civil Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Our Civil Conversation featuring Dr. Justene Hill Edwards is a must-see! Dr. Edwards and Jeffrey Nichols explore the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank and how it shaped economic inequality in America. Join us on November 20\, 2024 at 7:00 pm. Follow the link to register- It’s Free! \nA Civil Conversation with Dr. Justene Hill Edwards \nAbout the book: In the years immediately after the Civil War\, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened\, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman’s Bank collapsed. Fully informed by new archival findings\, historian Justene Hill Edwards unearths a major turning point in American history in this comprehensive account of the Freedman’s Bank and its depositors. She illuminates the hope with which the bank was first envisioned and demonstrates the significant setback that the sabotage of the bank caused in the fight for economic autonomy. Hill Edwards argues for a new interpretation of its tragic failure: the bank’s white financiers drove the bank into the ground\, not Fredrick Douglass\, its final president\, or its Black depositors and cashiers. A page-turning story filled with both well-known figures like Abraham Lincoln\, Frederick Douglass\, Jay and Henry Cooke\, and General O. O. Howard\, and less well-known figures like Dr. Charles B. Purvis\, John Mercer Langston\, Congressman Robert Smalls\, and Ellen Baptiste Lubin. Savings and Trust is necessary reading for those seeking to understand the roots of racial economic inequality in America. \nAbout the author: Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of both Unfree Markets and a forthcoming Norton Short on the history of inequality in America. She lives in Charlottesville\, Virginia.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/savings-and-trust-a-civil-conversation/
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SUMMARY:KIDNAPPED AT SEA: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White- Lessons in History Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Lessons in History Speaker Series on December 7\, 2024\, 1:00 – 2:00 pm\, as Andrew Sillen presents the Blockbuster book Kidnapped at Sea. \nAbout the book: KIDNAPPED AT SEA: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White: On the anniversary of his kidnapping\, the recovered story of David Henry White – a free Black teenager who was enslaved on a Confederate warship for over 600 days before dying in the 1864 Battle of Cherbourg and whose life has been misrepresented and unjustly appropriated for 150 years. \nFor over 150 years\, historians have recycled the fable that David Henry White – a free Black teenage sailor from Delaware who was kidnapped by the Confederate raider Alabama on October 9\, 1862 – remained on the ship for 600 days of his own volition\, working for reduced wages and embracing the master-servant relationship under the controversial and racist figure of Captain Raphael Semmes. This version of White’s life\, primarily based on Semmes’s self-serving post-war Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States\, strips White of his humanity and advances a false Lost Cause narrative. It is also absolutely false\, according to a new blockbuster histo ry: Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White (Johns Hopkins University Press\, October 8\, 2024)\, by Andrew Sillen. \nNow\, at last\, White’s life story and personhood is restored in this long overdue corrective history. This new version of events leaves no question that White was enslaved against his will within the confines of a dangerous and reckless crew until he drowned on June 19\, 1864\, during the Battle of Cherbourg between the USS Kearsarge and the Alabama. In correcting this narrative\, Kidnapped at Sea recognizes and empowers a Black teenager who died because of racist practices during a time of immense conflict surrounding the question of slavery vs. abolition. It also brings to light the lies perpetrated by Confederate\nNaval officers\, whose moral complications overshadow their military prowess. In contrast to the tyrannical cruelty of Captain Semmes\, Union Navy Captain John Ancrum Winslow of the USS Kearsarge emerges as a pro-abolitionist hero and their conflicting foundations of belief are “founding strands\, among many\, in America’s ideological DNA.” \nGreat history – when done well – sheds light not only on our past\, but on our present and future\, and Sillen writes that he wanted to tell the story of David Henry White “to recover the experience of the disempowered\,” and to contribute an important new perspective on racism by granting a voice to those marginalized in America’s past. Kidnapped at Sea takes on the critical task of righting the wrongs that surround the recorded history of David Henry White. But it is also a fascinating and eye-opening chronicle of Naval encounters between the Union and Confederacy\, as well as the European\, South American\, and African countries whose allegiances varied from port to port along the vital coasts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Sillen has done his research and documents the thrilling and dangerous chases\, raids\, battles\, ship burnings\, musical parties\, and more that took place during this turbulent time. This book is written with a storyteller’s flare that brings the past alive and wallops the reader with unfiltered truth. It will find wide readership among Civil War and naval history buffs\, as well as all who advance the ongoing conversation about racism in America\, past and present. \nAbout the author: Andrew Sillen is a visiting research scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He was formerly a professor of paleoanthropology and the founding director of development at the University of Cape Town and the vice president of institutional advancement at Brooklyn College.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/kidnapped-at-sea-lost-cause-no-more-lessons-in-history-presentation/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:LINCOLN VS. DAVIS The War of the Presidents - Via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:We are offering an in-person event via ZOOM\, on December 12\, 2024 at 7:00 pm – A Civil Conversation with author Nigel Hamilton and NCWM CEO Jeff Nichols discussing LINCOLN VS. DAVIS The War of the Presidents By Nigel Hamilton. \nClick the link to register- It’s Free \nA Civil Conversation with Dr. Nigel Hamilton – Lincoln Vs. Davis \nFrom renowned biographer­­­ Nigel Hamilton\, author of the epic FDR at War trilogy and the bestselling JFK: Reckless Youth\, comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance — and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last\, best chance to save the Union. \nOf all the books written on Abraham Lincoln\, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the “railsplitter” from Illinois grew into his critical role as U.S. commander-in-chief\, and managed to outwit his formidable opponent\, Jefferson Davis\, in what remains history’s only military faceoff between rival American presidents. Davis was a trained soldier and war hero; Lincoln a country lawyer who had only briefly served in the militia. Confronted with the most violent and challenging war ever seen on American soil\, Lincoln seemed ill-suited to the task: inexperienced\, indecisive\, and a poor judge of people’s motives\, he allowed his administration’s war policies to be sabotaged by fickle\, faithless cabinet officials while entrusting command of his army to a preening young officer named George McClellan – whose defeat in battle left Washington\, the nation’s capital\, at the mercy of General Robert E. Lee\, Davis’s star performer. \n \nAbout the Author: Historian Nigel Hamilton is a New York Times best-selling biographer of General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery\, President John F. Kennedy\, President Bill Clinton\, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\, among other subjects. He has won multiple awards\, including the Whitbread Prize and the Templer Medal for Military History. The first volume of his FDR a War trilogy\, The Mantle of Command\, was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate  School\, University of Massachusetts Boston\, and splits his time between Boston\, Massachusetts\, and New Orleans\, Louisiana. \nISBN 9780316564632 \nPhoto credits to Frank Monkiewitz
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/lincoln-vs-davis-the-war-of-the-presidents-via-zoom/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:Civil War Dance Classes - Free
DESCRIPTION:Civil War Dance Classes – Free\nSunday ~ January 12\, February 23\, March 23\, 2025\, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Get ready for the Civil War Preservation Ball\, in March 2023. This is great family fun!  Attend one or all of the classes and learn the popular formation dances of the 1860s. Partners are encouraged but not required to wear modern\, comfortable\, clothing since this is a physical workout. \nRegister here: contact@civilwardance.org \nPlease include the dates you plan to attend and the names of the attendees. Enrollees will be sent a Civil War Dance Manual. \nConducted by the Victorian Dance Ensemble\, the performing troupe of the Civil War Dance Foundation:\n* 2011 Civil War Trust’s Reenactment Unit of the Year\n* 2016 President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award \nRegular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries. \nImages courtesy of VDE and the Barefoot Historian
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/civil-war-dance-classes-free-2/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Bennett Parten - Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation at the NCWM
DESCRIPTION:An In-person Event! The National Civil War Museum welcomes Dr. Bennett Parten for a free Civil War book talk\, Monday\, January 27\, 2025\, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm. A groundbreaking account of Sherman’s March to the Sea—the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy—told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman’s march into the biggest liberation event in American history. \nIn the fall of 1864\, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta\, Georgia\, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way. From Atlanta\, they marched across the state to the most important city at the time: Savannah. Mired in the deep of the South with no reliable supply lines\, Sherman’s army had to live off the land and the provisions on the plantations they seized along the way. As the army marched to the east\, plantation owners fled\, but even before they did so\, slaves self-emancipated to Union lines. By the time the army seized Savannah in December\, as many as 20\,000 enslaved people had attached themselves to Sherman’s army. They endured hardships\, marching as much as twenty miles a day—often without food or shelter from the winter weather—and at times Union commanders discouraged and even prevented the self-emancipated from staying with the army. Racism was not confined to the Confederacy. \nIn Somewhere Toward Freedom\, historian Bennett Parten brilliantly reframes this seminal episode in Civil War history. He not only helps us understand how Sherman’s March impacted the war\, and what it meant to the enslaved\, but also reveals how it laid the foundation for the fledging efforts of Reconstruction. When the war ended\, Sherman and various government and private aid agencies seized plantation lands—particularly in the sea islands off the Georgia and South Carolina coasts—in order to resettle the newly emancipated. They were fed\, housed\, and in some instances\, taught to read and write. This first real effort at Reconstruction was short-lived\, however. As federal troops withdrew to the north\, Confederate sympathizers and Southern landowners eventually brought about the downfall of this program. \nSherman’s march has remained controversial to this day. But as Parten reveals\, it played a significant role in ending the Civil War\, due in no small part to the efforts of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who became a part of it. In Somewhere Toward Freedom\, this critical moment in American history has finally been given the attention it deserves. \n \nBennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University\, whose area of expertise is in the Civil War period. He is a native of Royston\, Georgia\, and completed his PhD in history at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Zocalo Public Square\, and The Civil War Monitor\, among others. He currently lives in Savannah\, Georgia. \n  \nPhotograph by Johnathan Chick.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/dr-bennett-parten-somewhere-toward-freedom-shermans-march-and-the-story-of-americas-largest-emancipation-at-the-ncwm/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:In Honor of Presidents Day & Black History Month - Special Pricing on Presidents Day
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, February 17\, 2025\, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. \nIn honor of Presidents Day and Black History Month\, the National Civil War Museum is proud to offer special pricing ~ Admission is $10.00 for Adults\, and children under 18 are Free. Join us for a historic holiday\, honoring the presidents of the United States. We welcome Christopher Croft\, NCWM Volunteer\, who will portray a USCT soldier and discuss the USCT enlistment process and what they had to endure throughout their enlistments and accomplishments made\, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Look for him next to Ephraim Slaughter! \nThank you for your interest in The National Civil War Museum. \n 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/special-admission-pricing-in-honor-of-presidents-day/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps\, Courts\, and Prisons\, via ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps\, Courts\, and Prisons\nby Dr. Jonathan Lande. Join here via ZOOM:\nA Civil Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Lande on his book Freedom Soldiers \nAlmost 200\,000 African Americans fought to save the Union\, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet\, even after enlisting\, their journeys for liberation continued amid the bloody civil war. They marched across taxing terrain\, performed backbreaking labor\, and endured corporeal punishment meted out by white officers. They also agonized over families still enslaved and suffered virulent diseases. Many grew disillusioned\, disgruntled\, or homesick. They fought on bravely\, yet thousands also ran. Chafing against restraints and violence reminiscent of slavery\, they briefly liberated themselves from onerous army discipline. \nThe men examined in Freedom Soldiers took self-granted breaks–“leaves of freedom”–and\, once caught\, were tried by the US Army for the military crime of “desertion.” In the courts-martial\, they justified their unauthorized departures by telling authorities that they left to temporarily help their families\, regain their health\, and evade violent officers. Army judges nevertheless convicted freedom seekers\, sending most to military prisons. From prisons\, the convicted deserters wrote petitions to President Abraham Lincoln and Union officials requesting release. These prisoners disputed rulings\, offered their continued service to the Union\, insisted on the injustice of incarceration\, and explained the dire need of kin around the wartime South. \nDrawing upon transcripts of the nearly 80\,000 Civil War courts-martial cases\, as well as prisoners’ petitions\, soldiers’ letters\, and government reports\, Jonathan Lande recovers this subset of soldiers who took leaves of freedom and defended their breaks within the military justice system. In doing so\, he reveals how Black men fought for freedom not only against Confederates but also in US Army camps\, courts\, and prisons. \nJonathan Lande is an assistant professor of history at Purdue University. His work has received numerous awards\, including the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians and the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Dissertation Prize from the American Society for Legal History.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/freedom-soldiers-the-emancipation-of-black-soldiers-in-civil-war-camps-courts-and-prisons-via-zoom/
LOCATION:ZOOM
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SUMMARY:Civil War Dance Classes - Free
DESCRIPTION:Civil War Dance Classes – Free\nSunday ~ January 12\, February 23\, March 23\, 2025\, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Get ready for the Civil War Preservation Ball\, in March 2023. This is great family fun!  Attend one or all of the classes and learn the popular formation dances of the 1860s. Partners are encouraged but not required to wear modern\, comfortable\, clothing since this is a physical workout. \nRegister here: contact@civilwardance.org \nPlease include the dates you plan to attend and the names of the attendees. Enrollees will be sent a Civil War Dance Manual. \nConducted by the Victorian Dance Ensemble\, the performing troupe of the Civil War Dance Foundation:\n* 2011 Civil War Trust’s Reenactment Unit of the Year\n* 2016 President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award \nRegular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries. \n  \nImages courtesy of VDE and the Barefoot Historian
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/civil-war-dance-classes-free-3/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Camp Curtin Historical Society presents a book talk at the NCWM
DESCRIPTION:Camp Curtin Historical Society invites you to their meeting and presentation at The National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg\, PA on Sunday\, March 9\, 2025\, at 2:00 PM.\nHow Did They Get Here? The Gettysburg Campaign by Dan Welch \nFollow the Union and Confederate armies northward across Virginia\, Maryland\, and into Pennsylvania during the weeks leading up to the battle of Gettysburg and examine the many battles and events that impacted both before the first shot on July 1\, 1863. \nAbout the speaker: Dan Welch is a park ranger at Gettysburg National Military Park. Dan is the co-author of two works in the Emerging Civil War Series: The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign\, 1863 and Never Such A Campaign: The Battle of Second Manassas\, August 28-30\, 1862\, as well as Ohio at Antietam: The Buckeye State’s Sacrifice on America’s Bloodiest Day with the History Press. \nSeveral books by Dan will be available in the book store including The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign. \nIn addition to the program\, there will be a used book sale\, and 10% of the proceeds will be given to the Museum. \nAdmission to the presentation is free\, though regular NCWM Museum entry fees apply for access to the galleries.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/camp-curtin-historical-society-presents-a-book-talk-at-the-ncwm/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Civil War Dance Classes - Free
DESCRIPTION:Civil War Dance Classes – Free\nSunday ~ January 12\, February 23\, March 23\, 2025\, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Get ready for the Civil War Preservation Ball\, in March 2023. This is great family fun!  Attend one or all of the classes and learn the popular formation dances of the 1860s. Partners are encouraged but not required to wear modern\, comfortable\, clothing since this is a physical workout. \nRegister here: contact@civilwardance.org \nPlease include the dates you plan to attend and the names of the attendees. Enrollees will be sent a Civil War Dance Manual. \nConducted by the Victorian Dance Ensemble\, the performing troupe of the Civil War Dance Foundation:\n* 2011 Civil War Trust’s Reenactment Unit of the Year\n* 2016 President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award \nRegular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries. \n  \nImages courtesy of VDE and the Barefoot Historian
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/civil-war-dance-classes-free-4/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War\, via ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War\nby Dr. Lesley J. Gordon\, via ZOOM.\nClick here to join: Civil War Book Talk with Dr. Lesley J. Gordon Zoom Link\nWhen confronted with the abject fear of going into battle\, Civil War soldiers were expected to overcome the dread of the oncoming danger with feats of courage and victory on the battlefield. The Fire Zouaves and the 2nd Texas Infantry went to war with high expectations that they would perform bravely; they had famed commanders and enthusiastic community support. How could they possibly fail? Yet falter they did\, facing humiliating charges of cowardice thereafter that cast a lingering shadow on the two regiments\, despite their best efforts at redemption. By the end of the war\, however\, these charges were largely forgotten\, replaced with the jingoistic rhetoric of martial heroism\, a legacy that led many\, including historians\, to insist that all Civil War soldiers were heroes. Dread Danger creates a fuller understanding of the soldier experience and the overall costs and sufferings of war. \nProfessor Lesley J. Gordon earned her BA in History from The College of William and Mary\, and her MA and PhD in American History from the University of Georgia. She taught at Murray State University and the University of Akron before becoming the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History at the University of Alabama in 2016. Professor Gordon has authored three monographs\, co-edited four volumes of essays\, and co-written a textbook about the American Civil War. She has also published numerous book chapters\, journal articles\, book reviews and encyclopedia entries\, and presented her work at scholarly conferences across the country and abroad. Professor Gordon has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians since 2009 and has had her lectures and presentations featured on C-span. She has served as editor of the academic journal Civil War History (2010-2015)\, President of the Society for Civil War History (2022-2024) and is currently Chair of the Editorial Board for the University of Alabama Press \nISBN Number: 9781108729192 \n 
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/dread-danger-cowardice-and-combat-in-the-american-civil-war-via-zoom/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:Civil War Book Talk with Dr. Judith Giesberg "Last Seen - The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a free\, in-person book talk\, Last Seen\, with Dr. Judith Giesberg on April 26\, 2025\, from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm\, followed by a book signing.\nAbout the book: Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements\, the riveting\, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery. Of all the many horrors of slavery\, the cruelest was the separation of families in slave auctions. Spouses and siblings were sold away from one other. Young children were separated from their mothers. Fathers were sent down river and never saw their families again. \nAs soon as slavery ended in 1865\, family members began to search for one another\, in some cases persisting until as late as the 1920s. They took out “information wanted” advertisements in newspapers and sent letters to the editor. Pastors in churches across the country read these advertisements from the pulpit\, expanding the search to those who had never learned to read or who did not have access to newspapers. These documents demonstrate that even as most white Americans—and even some younger Black Americans\, too—wanted to put slavery in the past\, many former slaves\, members of the “Freedom Generation\,” continued for years\, and even decades\, to search for one another. These letters and advertisements are testaments to formerly enslaved people’s enduring love for the families they lost in slavery\, yet they spent many years buried in the storage of local historical societies or on microfilm reels that time forgot. \nJudith Giesberg draws on the archive that she founded—containing almost five thousand letters and advertisements placed by members of the Freedom Generation—to compile these stories in a narrative form for the first time. Her in-depth research turned up additional information about the writers\, their families\, and their enslavers. With this critical context\, she recounts the moving stories of the people who placed the advertisements\, the loved ones they tried to find\, and the outcome of their quests to reunite. \nThis story underscores the cruelest horror of slavery—the forced breakup of families—and the resilience and determination of the formerly enslaved. Thoughtful\, heart-wrenching\, and illuminating\, Last Seen finally gives this lesser-known aspect of slavery the attention it deserves. \nAbout the author: Dr. Judith Giesberg is professor of history and Robert M. Birmingham chair in the humanities at Villanova University. She is the founder and director of the Last Seen archive\, and the author of several books on Civil War history\, including Army at Home\, Emilie Davis’s Civil War\, and Last Seen (ISBN 9781982174323). \n \nPhotograph (c) Mark Tassoni
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/last-seen-an-in-person-book-talk/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Clara Barton - Red Cross Angel - Presentation at the NCWM
DESCRIPTION:CLARA BARTON-RED CROSS ANGEL By Award-Winning Actress & Smithsonian Scholar Mary Ann Jung \nJoin us for an interpretive presentation by Mary Ann Jung\, as she portrays Clara Barton\, on Saturday\, May 3\, 2025\, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm\, in our education gallery. This special program is free of charge\, regular admission applies for entrance to the Museum galleries. \n About the Presentation: Clara Barton\, America’s greatest heroine\, faced bullying and bullets with astonishing bravery to save the lives of others as a Civil War nurse. She then went on to create The Missing Soldiers Office and the American Red Cross despite formidable obstacles. Audience members become naysayers and believers\, soldiers and nurses to discover what these struggles and accomplishments meant on a personal level. This award-winning show inspires all of us to “Never Give Up!”
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/clara-barton-red-cross-angel-presentation-at-the-ncwm/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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