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SPEAKER  -  TOPIC  -  DATE

Howell Raines - The Silent Cavalry – 6/10/26 (Zoom)(TBA)

Jim Johnston - Rowser's Ford – 5/13/26 (Hybrid)(TBA) 

Boutwell & Blumenthal - George Boutwell – 4/22/26 (In-Person)(TBA)

Lesley Gordon - CW Dread & Cowardice – 3/25/26 (Zoom)(TBA)

N. Richardson-Douglass & Lincoln on Founding–2/10/26 (Hybrid)(TBA) 

John Banks - CW Trip of a Lifetime – 1/14/26 (Zoom)(TBA)

Lisa Samia - CW-History Poetry – 1/14/26 (Zoom)(TBA)

Ron Grandchamp - 1st RI at Middleburg – 12/10/25 (Zoom)(TBA)

Jim Anderson - The Great Locomotive Chase – 11/12/25 (Zoom)(TBA)

Speaker Panel-Foggy Bottom During the Civil War – 10/31/25 (Hybrid)

B. Cheeseboro-DC Outsidew the White House–09/10/25 (Hybrid)(TBA)

Kevin Levin - Slavery in Gettysburg – 06/11/25 (Zoom-Only)(TBA)

Kim Holien - Grand Review of 1861 – 05/14/25 (Hybrid)(TBA)

Lynne Jackson-Women Behind Douglass–04/09/25 (In-Person)(TBA)

Leigh Fought- Douglass & Women Supporters–03/12/25 (Zoom)(TBA)

Sidney Blumenthal -  Lincoln's First Inaugural -  2/25/25 (Hybrid)

Douglas R.  Egerton  -  T. W. Higginson – 01/07/25 (Zoom)

Rachel Swarns - 272 at Georgetown Univ. – 12/11/24 (Zoom)(TBA)

Scott Berg - Dakota Uprising – 11/13/24 (Hybrid)(TBA)

Moser/Mazzuca - WH Scandals  - 11/9/24 (In-Person Only)(TBA)

Robert Lee Hodge - Alexander Hunter - 10/8/24 (Zoom)(TBA)

Carolyn Ivanoff - 17th CT at Gettysburg  - 9/11/24 (Hybrid)(TBA)





Gordon Gidlund - The Trent Affair - 12/13/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)


Julian Sher - Confederates in Canada- 10/11/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

Kevin Pawlak - Lincoln & Antietam - 9/20/2023 (Hybrid) (TBA)

Maurice Jackson - Benezet - 6/28/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

Eric Wittenberg - CW Cavalry - 6/14//2023 (Hybrid) (TBA)

Joan Waugh - Grant's Legacy - 5/24/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

David Stewart - Burning Land - 5/10/2023 (Hybrid) (TBA)


Timothy Smith - Grierson's Raid - 4/20/2023 (Hybrid) (TBA)

Elizabeth Leonard - Gen. Butler - 3/22/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

W&D Burtch - W.G. Raymond - 3/8/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

Scott Hartwig - Antietam - 2/22/2023 (Zoom)  (TBA)

Jon Meacham - Lincoln's Theology - 2/8/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

Ed Bearss Awards Ceremony - 2/8/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

Caroline Janney - Ends of War - 1/25/2023  (Zoom; members only) 

Jim Kelly - Private Robert K. Sneden - 1/11/2023 (Zoom) (TBA)

Gary Gallagher - The Enduring CW - 12/14/2022 (Zoom) (TBA)

Fergus Bordewich - Grant and the KKK - 12/6/2022 (Hybrid) (TBA)

Carolyn Ivanoff - Dr. George Porter - 11/22/2022 (Zoom) (TBA)



David Kent - Lincoln and STEM - 10/13/2022 (Hybrid) (TBA)

Gregg Clemmer - CW Memory - 9/27/2022 (Hybrid) (TBA)


Carol Shively - Hispanics in the CW - 6/28/2022 (Zoom)


Ed Bearss Awards Ceremony - 6/15/2022 (Zoom)(TBA)



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Various - Member Show & Tell - 1/11/2022 (Zoom)





















Leslie Rowland - Black Military Experience - 5/14/2019

John Hennessy - General Joe Hooker - 1/8/2019

Stanley Schneider - Gen. Alexander Webb - 6/13/2017

Perry Jamieson - Winfield Scott Hancock - 5/9/2017
Bill Backus - Bristoe Station Campaign - 4/11/2017
Tom Perry - J. E. B. Stuart - 3/15/2017
Noah Andre Trudeau-Lincoln at City Point-2/15/2017
Dwight Hughes - The CSS Shenandoah - 12/13/2016
David Goetz -Grant/Mosby Post-War Relationship-11/9/2016
Ed Bearss - Custer at Little Bighorn - 10/11/2016
George Franks III  - Battle of Falling Waters- 9/13/2016
Eugene ("Gene") Schmiel - Jacob Dolson Cox - 6/14/2016
Lawrence Denton - Unionists in Virginia - 5/10/2016
Tom Huntington - General George Gordon Meade - 4/12/2016
David G. Moore - General William S. Rosecrans - 3/8/2016
Michael A. Ross-Reconstruction & American Memory-2/9/2016
Rebecca Koenig-How House Museums Discuss Slavery-2/9/2016
Chris G. - General Ewell at Gettysburg - 1/12/2016
David O. Stewart-The Impeachment of Johnson-12/8/2015
Harry Bulkeley - Ulysses S. Grant - 11/10/2015 (TBA)
Ed Bearss-The Shortcomings of Various Generals -10/13/2015
Dan Paterson - The James Longstreet Controversy - 9/8/2015
Calvin Goddard Zon - The Divided Confederacy - 6/9/2015
Craig Symonds - The Naval View of the Civil War - 5/12/2015
Joseph Scopin - Lewis Cass White - 4/14/2015
C.R. Gibbs - The 1st Regiment USCT - 3/10/2015
Eric W. Buckland- Mosby's Rangers - 2/10/2015
Elizabeth Varon - Appomattox - 1/13/2015
Ed Bonekemper - The Western Theater – 11/12/2014
Ed Bearss - The Overland Campaign - 10/14/2014
William Hewitt -  Decisions at Gettysburg - 9/9/2014
Frank Cooling - The Ft. Stevens Story - 7/10/14
Robert Lee Hodge-The Confederates in the Attic-5/13/2014
Ken Heineman - The Ewing Family of Ohio - 4/8/2014
Stuart Towns - The Rhetoric of the Lost Cause - 3/11/2014
Gordon Berg-N.B. Forrest at the Battle of Tupelo-2/11/2014
Anne Sarah Rubin - Sherman's March - 1/14/2014
Burrus Carnahan-Lincoln and the Law of War-11/12/2013
Gregory Elder - Civil War Intelligence - 10/8/2013
Charles Ross - Civil War Acoustic Shadows - 9/10/2013
Chandra Manning-Contraband & American People-6/11/2013
Greg Mertz-Stuart at the Battle of Chancellorsville-5/14/2013
Ron Beavers - The Role of the Railroads - 4/19/2013
Edna Greene Medford-The Strategy of Emancipation-3/12/2013
Burrus Carnahan - The Emancipation Proclamation-2/12/2013
James "Bud" Robertson, Jr. - The Untold Story - 1/8/2013
Fergus Bordewich - The Compromise of 1850 - 12/11/2012
Ed Bearss - Grant's Vicksburg Campaign - 10/9/2012
Frank Cooling - The Events of 1862-1863 - 9/11/2012
Marc Thompson - The Seven Days Campaign - 6/12/2012
Chris Kolakowski-The 1862 Kentucky Campaign-5/8/2012
John Hoptak - Lee's Antietam Campaign - 4/10/2012
Frank O'Reilly-Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign-3/13/2012
Richard Hatcher - The Battle of Wilson's Creek - 2/13/2012
Craig Symonds - The Richmond Campaign - 1/10/2012
Ed Bearss - The Vicksburg Campaign - 12/13/2011
Frank Cooling - Grant in the Upper Heartland - 11/9/2011
Adam Goodheart - 1861: Civil War Awakening - 10/11/2011

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