Upcoming Presentations September 2025

As September begins, make sure you keep up to speed on where your favorite historians will be. Below, you will find a list of upcoming speaking events for this month. To view a full list of what’s ahead, check out our Speakers Schedule page.

September:
6: Jon-Erik Gilot, “The Upper Ohio Valley and John Brown’s Raid,” Underground Railroad Museum, Flushing, OH
8: Curt Fields, The Northeast Indiana CWRT, Fort Wayne, IN
9: Curt Fields, President Grant will address his successes and failures, Civil War Round Table of Southwest Michigan, Saint Joseph, MI
9: Tim Talbott, We Fight for Our Rights, Liberty, Justice, and Union: The Battle of New Market Heights, September 29, 1864, Varina Ruritan Club, Varina, VA
10: Kevin C. Donovan, “The Court Martial of Fitz John Porter: Fair or Fixed?”, Jersey Shore CWRT, Toms River, NJ
11: Tonya McQuade, “A State Divided: The Civil War Letters of James Calaway Hale and Benjamin Petree of Andrew County, Missouri,” San Joaquin Valley CWRT in Clovis, CA
13: Chris Mackowski, Spotsylvania battlefield tour, Central Virginia Battlefields Trust tour
17: Joe Ricci, John Bell Hood and his postwar years, New Orleans (LA) Civil War Round Table
18: Chris Mackowski, “The Rise of Stonewall Jackson,” Hampton Roads Civil War Roundtable, Virginia Beach
18: Neil P. Chatelain, “Unpacking the Civil War’s Most Misunderstood Naval Engagement: The Head of Passes, October 12, 1861,” 2025 McMullen Naval History Symposium, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.
19–21: Curt Fields, Van Raalte Farm Civil War Muster, Holland, MI
23: Curt Fields, General Grant and General Pemberton (Morgan Gates) will discuss the siege and surrender of Vicksburg, CWRT Congress’s Giving Tuesday event @ 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT (Please join us and contribute to the cause of the CWRT Congress and the American Battlefield Trust!)
24: Chris Mackowski, “Stonewall Jackson’s Greatest Hits,” Buffalo (NY) Civil War Roundtable
23: Kevin Pawlak, “Antietam Endgame,” Williamsburg CWRT
25: Derek Maxfield, Gettysburg CWRT, Gettysburg, PA
27: Curt Fields, The National Society of Dames of the Court of Honor Annual National Conference, Little Rock, AR
27: Tim Talbott, “We Look Like Men of War: USCTs and the Richmond–Petersburg Campaign of 1864-65,” 161st Anniversary of the Battle of New Market Heights event to be held at the Varina Ruritan Club, Varina, VA


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