2025 Fall Seminar
Our 2025 annual Civil War Fall Seminar is SOLD OUT! If you wish to be added to a wait list, please email Kristen.
Join us聽for an immersive seminar experience on the 鈥淎ntietam and Its Legacy,鈥� September 18-20, 2025. Our line-up features distinguished academic historians and public historians and offers a blend of battlefield walks, lectures, and discussions that consider the bloodiest day in our nation鈥檚 history and its consequences.
Thursday September 18, 2025:
12:00-4:30: Registration at National Conservation Training Center, 海角社区stown, WV
1:00-3:00: Battlefield Hike: 鈥淭he Night Before the Great Ball:鈥� The Fight of September 16, Kevin Pawlak
4:30-4:45: Welcome and Opening Remarks,聽Jennifer Murray
4:45-5:45: Lecture, 鈥淢y Heart Nearly Died Within Me:鈥� Sharpsburg鈥檚 Civilians and the Long Shadow of Antietam鈥檚 Aftermath, Ashley Luskey
6:00- 7:00: Dinner at NCTC
7:15-8:30: Keynote: Why Lee Invaded: A Reassessment, Dennis Frye
Friday September 19, 2025:
8:00-12:00: Battlefield Hike: Photos, Fighting, and Folklore at Antietam, Garry Adelman
12:30-1:30: Boxed lunch at Antietam
2:00- 5:00: Footsteps Program: Confederate Catastrophe: Lee’s Nightmare, Dennis Frye
5:15-5:45: Free time, migrate to dinner
6:00- 7:15: 鈥淒ine Out鈥� (Dennis Frye & Tom Clemens @ Bavarian Inn, Jennifer Murray @ Blue Moon, Dana Shoaf & Melissa Winn @ Bistro 112, Ben Bankhurst at Alma Bea)
7:30- 8:30: Keynote: Ezra A. Carman and the Antietam Battlefield, Tom Clemens
Saturday September 20, 2025:
9:00-12:00: Footsteps Program: “It is Terrible to March Slowly into Danger,” The 12th Corps Sweeps the Field, Scott Hartwig
12:30-1:45: Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:00: 鈥淰oices From The Battlefield鈥�: Special Orders 191, Jennifer Murray, Brian Baracz, and Scott Hartwig
3:00-3:30: Break
3:30-4:30: Lecture: “‘If I survive, my two stars are secure’: General Meade and the 1862 Maryland Campaign,” JenniferMurray
4:45-5:45: Lecture: Trial by Fire: The Antietam Debut of the Letterman System, Dana Shoaf and Melissa Winn
Final itinerary and meals subject to change.
Cancellations made one month before the start of the seminar will be refunded in full. Cancellations made after one month before the start of the seminar will not be refunded.
We look forward to seeing you this fall!
Have additional questions?聽 Please contact our director Dr. Jennifer Murray at jmurr01@shepherd.edu or Program Coordinator Kristen Marino at kmarino@shepherd.edu
The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at 海角社区 University has offered annual seminars for nearly thirty years, each exploring a wide range of topics and themes related to the American Civil War.聽 This year鈥檚 conference offers an exciting and dynamic line-up that will expand and deepen our understanding of the 鈥淏attle of Antietam and Its Legacy.鈥�
Registration Options:
1. for a downloadable registration form. Return the completed form to Kristen via email, and call the 海角社区 University Office of Finance (304-876-5284) to pay, or mail the completed form and a check to Kristen at the address on the form.
2. Online registration is available . Click on “view camps” at the bottom of the page.
Our seminar focuses on a highly individualized experience in which participants have ample opportunities to interact with one another and our guest scholars. We promote an intimate environment and each seminar creates a community knitted together by a mutual passion for the nineteenth-century鈥檚 most critical period. We invite you to come and experience a truly unique immersive weekend that features original, innovative programming as well as carefully chosen dining experiences. To add your name to our mailing list or inquire about seminar scholarship activities, please contact us at kmarino@shepherd.edu.