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Symposium Spotlight: Keynote Books!
Timothy B. Smith will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Symposium, and we’re looking forward to his presentation on the siege of Vicksburg! He’s the author of numerous books and we encourage you to check out the list here. Maybe there’s a volume or two that you’d like to order and ask him to […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Books, Books, Books
We’re excited to whisper a couple reminders for the ECW Symposium: There will be ECW authors happy to sign and sell their new books There will a vast array of gently-used Civil War books at bargain prices It’s a great time to pick and choose some new volumes for your library (or get a jump-start […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: 2023 Suggested Reading, Part 2
Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll post some book lists shared by our 2023 ECW Symposium speakers in case you’re looking for some summer reading related to the topics! Chris Kolakowski – The Battle of Missionary Ridge Dave Powell, Battle above the Clouds: Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: 2023 Suggested Reading, Part 1
Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll post some book lists shared by our 2023 ECW Symposium speakers in case you’re looking for some summer reading related to the topics! Cecily Nelson Zander – From Stones River to Chattanooga: Braxton Bragg and the Struggle for Tennessee in 1863 Peter Cozzens, No Better Place to Die: […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: John Mosby & The Gettysburg Campaign
Welcome back to our spotlight series, highlighting speakers and topics for our upcoming symposium. Today, we continue to feature previews of our speaker’s presentations for the 2023 Emerging Civil War Symposium. This week we feature Kevin Pawlak’s topic. John S. Mosby was already an accomplished partisan leader by the summer of 1863, after only six […]
Read more...ECW Symposium Sold Out!
Well…that didn’t take long. Just twenty four hours after we made the announcement, we’re thrilled to announce that our 2023 Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge is officially sold out! We’re anticipating our largest crowd to date for what promises to be an outstanding weekend of history and camaraderie like so many of our […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Last Call – Only 3 Tickets Left!
Attention procrastinators! We’re just two months out from reconvening for a weekend of networking, camaraderie, and some outstanding history at Stevenson Ridge! For those of you who have already secured your seats, you’ll be hearing directly from us over the next several weeks with information on the runup to the symposium. For those who don’t […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: 2023 History Panel
We’re planning to feature a discussion panel at the 2023 ECW Symposium by popular request! The panels give an opportunity for historians to have some friendly banter about topics and answer questions that you might have. This year we’re planning to highlight ideas related to the event’s theme: 1863 – The Great Task Before Us. […]
Read more...Symposium Spotlight: Extra Tour on Friday!
We’re excited to announce that there will be an extra tour in the morning of Friday, August 4, 2023 for symposium guests! Join us at Bristoe Station for a tour of another 1863 battlefield. (Yes, there was more in the eastern theater after Gettysburg that year…) We’ll have the exact time and place to meet […]
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