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The Midtown Scholar Bookstore presents An Evening with Harold Holzer, with NCWM CEO, Jeffrey Nichols, welcoming bestselling historian Harold Holzer to Harrisburg for a conversation and signing on his new novel, Brought Forth on This Continent": Abraham Lincoln and America Immigration. This event is free and open to the public. To enter the signing line, books must be purchased from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event, or you may preorder a copy of the book for pickup/shipment. Preordered copies will not be signed until after the event. PREORDER A SIGNED COPY About the Book: From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns. America’s newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln’s rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise […]

Join us for our In-Person Lessons in History Speaker Series as Dr. Bradley M. Gottfried discusses his new book, The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House Through Cold Harbor, Including all Cavalry Operations, May 7 through June 3, 1864, on Saturday, June 15, 2024, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm. About the book: The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor: An Atlas of the Fighting at Spotsylvania Court House Through Cold Harbor, Including all Cavalry Operations, May 7 through June 3, 1864, continues the actions of both armies through the completion of the Overland Campaign. After the Wilderness fighting, the Army of the Potomac attempted to swing around the right flank of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and shoot straight for Richmond. The Maps of Spotsylvania through Cold Harbor breaks down the entire operation into thirty-five map sets or “action sections” enriched with 134 detailed full-page color maps. About the author: Born and raised in Philadelphia, Brad Gottfried earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from Miami University and spent four decades as an educator in higher education. He has served as a full-time faculty member, department head, campus dean, chief […]

The National Civil War Museum proudly presents the NCWM Juneteenth Community Free Day on Saturday, June 22, 2024, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Join us for a day filled with family-friendly activities, all free of charge. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm - Greater Zion Missionary Baptist Church Praise Team Choir - Ballroom 10:00 am – 4:00 pm African American Quilters Demonstration Thompson’s Independent Battery C, PA Light Artillery, will demonstrate a Mountain Howitzer with firing times at 10:00 am, 11:30 am, and 2:30 pm. Please check back often for new activities and the full event schedule. We look forward to seeing you!

Civil Conversation via ZOOM - Free On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at 7:00 pm, we invite you to join us via Zoom for an enriching Civil Conversation. This event will showcase the insightful perspectives of Duncan A. Campbell and Neils Eichhorn, alongside NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols, promising a thought-provoking discussion. Mark your calendars now! Register here: A Civil Conversation on The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism with Niels Eichhorn & Duncan Campbell About the book: While historians have acknowledged that the issues of race, slavery, and emancipation were not unique to the American Civil War, they have less frequently recognized the conflict’s similarities to other global events. As renowned historian Carl Degler pointed out, the Civil War was “one among many” such conflicts during the mid-nineteenth century. Understanding the Civil War’s place in world history requires placing it within a global context of other mid-nineteenth-century political, social, and cultural issues and events. In The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism, Niels Eichhorn and Duncan A. Campbell explore the conflict from this perspective, taking a transnational and comparative approach, with a particular focus on the period from the 1830s to the 1870s. Eichhorn and Campbell examine the development of […]