Our latest blog post is up! Virginia Tech graduate student Miles Abernethy shares details from his recent visit to Appomattox Court House National Historical Park here: civilwar.vt.edu/blog/
📷 Photos by Miles Abernethy. Pictured are Abernethy (right) and Ranger Luke Dixon.

Our YouTube page has been updated with our most recent lecture: youtube.com/channel/UCbR88…
Professor Kidada E. Williams recounts Black people’s experiences in the Reconstruction era to show that Reconstruction did not just fail, but was violently overthrown and abandoned.

Congratulations to Jillian Sasso -- a senior history and political science double major, an outreach assistant for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, and this year's recipient of the James and Martha Banks Award!! Great work, Jillian!

Virginia Tech History Professor Daniel Thorp is featured in an upcoming speaker series focused on Civil War battles in the New River Valley, sponsored by the Wilderness Road Regional Museum. For full details: givebutter.com/EJA8Mz?fbclid=…

Our latest blog post is up! Virginia Tech graduate student Miles Abernethy shares his reflections on volunteering at Appomattox Court House, where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant 159 years ago this week. Read the post here: civilwar.vt.edu/blog/

Don't miss our next free webinar! Monday night Professor Kidada E. Williams will present, ‘I Don’t Know If I’ll Ever Be Over It’: African Americans in the War against Reconstruction’ at 7 p.m. Eastern time. To register: virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Pulaski sixth-grade students visited with Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech’s Special Collections Thursday to research their Virginia History Day exhibit on the USS Monitor ironclad. Best of luck to the students at History Day! VT Special Collections and University Archives Virginia Museum of History & Culture

Our Spring Campaign participants are enjoying a fascinating visit to Civil War sites in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania. We will be announcing the site of the 2025 Spring Campaign soon!
📷 Photos courtesy Jillian Sasso

Our 2024 Civil War Weekend is in the books! Thanks to our fantastic guest lecturers and our always-engaged audience, the weekend was a great success. Mark your calendars now for next year's Civil War Weekend: March 28-30, 2025. We hope to see you there!

VT students: If you are interested in our summer 2024 Richmond Experience class on Civil War History, you must select 'Capital Campus' to register! Check out the details here:

The March 28 deadline is quickly approaching for our 2024-25 research grants. Each grant recipient will visit Virginia Tech’s Special Collections for Civil War era research with an honorarium of $150 per day. For details: civilwar.vt.edu/research-grant…

Join Virginia Tech Professor Kurt Luther April 9 in Roanoke for a talk about Civil War photo sleuthing -- using facial recognition and crowdsourcing to identify soldier photos. Luther will speak at 7 p.m. at Friendship Retirement Community. To learn more: civilwarphotosleuth.com

Registration for summer classes is now OPEN! 🎉 Join professor Paul Quigley this summer in Richmond for HIST 2104: The Richmond Experience: Exploring Civil War Era History in the Heart of the Confederacy.

For more information: liberalarts.vt.edu/academics/rich…

March is Women's History Month, and a great time to watch our YouTube videos focusing on the many experiences of women during the Civil War era. For example, check out our discussion of 'Celia, A Slave at 30: Revisiting a Classic,' : youtube.com/watch?v=dHE1-s…

Registration opens next week for HIST 2104: The Richmond Experience: Exploring Civil War Era History in the Heart of the Confederacy. Students in this course will visit an array of Civil War era battlefields, museums, and other historical sites. For more: liberalarts.vt.edu/academics/rich…

The registration deadline is Friday for Virginia Tech's Civil War Weekend, so register today! This year’s theme is “The Information War,' and we have eight well-known Civil War experts lined up to speak.
To register: civilwar.vt.edu/civil-war-week…

Save the date for our next free webinar! Professor Kidada E. Williams will present, ‘I Don’t Know If I’ll Ever Be Over It’: African Americans in the War against Reconstruction’ on April 15 at 7 p.m. Eastern time. To register: virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Exciting news -- we have a blog! 🎉

The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies has added a blog page to our web site, which will be updated often with our latest events. To view (and bookmark 🔖 for later!): civilwar.vt.edu/blog/

A recording of our last free webinar has been posted on YouTube! Professor Kenneth Noe gave a fascinating talk on weather during the Civil War era, based on his book, 'The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate and the American Civil War.' Click here to watch: youtube.com/watch?v=xCh2Dg…

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated on Giving Day! We are so grateful to our donors, who help us to share Civil War era history with audiences of all ages. Your donations support free lectures, K-12 school outreach, scholarships for VT students and more!
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