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…
744 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 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 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.
2,613 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…
979 viewsGettysburg 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…
650 viewsGettysburg 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…
777 viewsGettysburg College Civil War Institute hosted an online discussion about how interpretation has changed over the years at the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Guest Beth Parn…
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