2025 Year in Review: The “Cities of War” Symposium

Today is the last day to purchase early bird tickets for our 12th Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge, coming up August 7–9, 2026. Our early bird price is $275. Once the new year begins, the regular price for the event will be $325. Our theme will be “Partnerships and Rivalries.”

Click here for our full line-up of speakers, which includes keynotes from Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds.

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We had a great time at last summer’s event. Our theme was “The Cities of War,” featuring keynote speaker Ted Savas speaking about the Augusta Powder Works. Ten other speakers shared tales from Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, New York, Richmond, Saint Louis, San Francisco, and the road to Atlanta. We heard about bread riots, draft riots, and privateering in the Pacific. We had street fighting in Baltimore, hospitals in Fredericksburg, fire in Charleston, and the loss and incredible reclamation of the battlefield in Franklin, Tennessee.

“I learned completely new views of what was happening in the war,” one attendee said.

In case you missed the fun, here’s a quick look at our photo gallery.