AMART Symposiums

Civil War & Emancipation Studies at Temple (CWEST)

The Pennsylvania Reserves - PRVC Battalion

Bucktail Association

Civil War & Emancipation Studies at Temple (CWEST)

Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia

2009 - Lincoln and his Generals and the Civil War

Symposium Chairman - Joe Pugh

2008 - Conspiracy to Kill a President: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Roger Arthur (Who Killed Lincoln?)

Hugh Boyle ("The Bloodshed at Lafayette Square"; The Attack at the Seward Home)

Joan Lee Chaconas (Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination)

Al Gambone (John F. Hartranft and His Treatment of Those Confined For the Lincoln Murder Trial)

Michael W. Kauffman (John Wilkes Booth and the Staging of History)

Mary Mudd McHale (My Great-grandfather Samuel Mudd: Another Victim of the Lincoln Assassination)

Steven J. Wright (Lincoln's Last Days)

2007 - History of the Pennsylvania Reserves: Shock Troops of the Union

Symposium Chairmen - Rich Adams and Gary Grove

Guillermo Bosch (The Reserves at Gettysburg)

Gary Grove (General Samuel W. Crawford)

Mike Riley and Dr. Andy Waskie (Generals Meade and Reynolds)

Rick Sauers (The Organization of the PRVC)

Pat Schroeder (The Bucktails)

George Turner (6th Pennsylvania Reserves [35th Infantry])

2006 - The Common Soldier: Billy Yank and Johnny Reb

Symposium Chairman - Tom Moran

Joseph Bilby (The Soldier and the Small Arms Revolution: Small Unit Tactics and Technology in the Union Army)

Judith Geisberg and Elizabeth Varon

• Redefining Courage and the Battlefront: New Perspectives on Women and the Civil War
• Wages on which we can live: Philadelphia Seamstresses Take on the War Department)

David Orr (The 8th USCT Regiment: A Philadelphia and Delaware)

Kenneth Price (Providing what "drugs & bottles & powders are helpless to yield": Walt Whitman's Care for Civil War Soldiers)

Dr. Andy Waskie and Jim Mundy

• Philadelphia's Fighting Regiments
• The Union League of Philadelphia

Jeffery Wert

• Around the Camp Fire: Life of the Common Soldier on Campaign
• A Brotherhood of Soldiers: Billy Yank & Johnny Reb) (Keynote Address)

Panel Discussion (The Commanders and the Common Soldiers)

2005 - Retreat from Gettysburg

Kent Masterson Brown (Retreat from Gettysburg)

2004 - The Battle of Gettysburg

Symposium Chairwomen - Terri Paglione and Leslie Peck

Dr. James McPherson (Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief: the Gettysburg Fulcrum)

Jeffery Wert (Lee - Longstreet controversy at Gettysburg)

Dr. David Martin (Union corps commanders at Gettysburg)

Joseph Bilby (New Jersey at Gettysburg - the story of the state's regiments in the battle)

Craig Caba (the underground railroad and anti-slavery movement at Gettysburg)

Jane C. Peters Estes (Where were the women at Gettysburg?)

Patrick Falci (A. P. Hill: Lee's forgotten general)

Troy Harman (Lee's real plan at Gettysburg)

Stanley Saperstein (Sharpshooter: a first person dramatization)

Dr. Robert Slawson (Civil War medicine and Camp Letterman)

Panel Discussion (The five best and five worst generals at Gettysburg)

2003 - Abraham Lincoln; the War President

Symposium Chairman - Bill Vosseler

Roger Arthur (Who really killed Lincoln)

Dr. Gabor Boritt (Abraham Lincoln runs for president)

Hugh Boyle (John Wilkes Booth: the murder and escape)

Alan Guelzo (Understanding emancipation; Lincoln's proclamation and the end of slavery)

Dr. Mark Neely Jr. (Abraham Lincoln and the cult of violence: a skeptical look at Civil War history today)

Dr. Matthew Pinsker (Soldiers' Home: Lincoln's presidential retreat)

Steven J. Wright (the case for Marry Surratt)

2002 - Combat Command and Leadership

Symposium Chairman - Layne Blavier

Captain Charles Bowery (Commanders of the 124th New York vs. 1st Texas in the Triangle at Gettysburg)

Andrea Custer (James Kilpatrick vs. Joseph Wheeler)

Dr. Rick DiNardo (Joe Hooker vs. James Longstreet at Chattanooga)

Dr. Herman Harraway (Lincoln and Davis as Commanders-in-Chief)

Bruce Stocking (Winfield Hancock vs. Stonewall Jackson)

Dr. Ethan Rafuse (John Pope vs. Robert E. Lee at Second Manassas)

2001 - Philadelphia in the Civil War

Symposium Chairman - Paul Lader

Linda Duffy (Philadelphia sanitary fair)

Charles Greifenstein (Philadelphia and medicine)

Allen Guelzo (the Union League)

Richard Sauers (Philadelphia's war economy)

John Seitter (Philadelphia, a city divided)

Dr. Russell Weigley (Philadelphia in the Gettysburg Campaign)

2000 - The Appomattox Campaign

Symposium Chairman - John LaRosch

Edwin Bearss (Overview of the Appomattox Campaign)

Chris M. Calkins (Events, April 3rd to 7th)

Tracy Chernault (Events, February 1st to April 2nd)

Dr. Edward Longacre (Cavalry's role in the campaign)

John Powell (Delaware troops in the campaign)

Patrick Schroeder (Events, April 8th and 9th)

Dr. Edward Smith (the USCTs and CSCTs)

1999 - The War in the West

Symposium Chairman - Mike Cavanaugh

Steve Wright (Fire on the prairie; the Minnesota Dakota uprising of 1862)

John F. Marszalek (William T. Sherman, myth and reality)

Lee Quinn (the Campaign for Port Hudson, Louisiana)

Wiley Sword (Franklin and Nashville; the inside story)

Tom Goodrich (Black flag; the horror on the Missouri/Kansas border)

Terry Winschel (Unvexed to the sea; the Vicksburg campaign)

1998 - The Chancellorsville Campaign

Symposium Chairman - Dr. Andy Waskie

Frank O'Reilly (Overview and highlights of the Chancellorsville Campaign

Dr. James "Bud" Robertson (Lee and Jackson at Chancellorsville)

Dennis Frye (Hooker in the Chancellorsville Campaign)

Ernest "Pat" Furgurson ("What Ifs" of the Battle of Chancellorsville)

Don Pfanz (the XI Corps at Chancellorsville)

Dr. Andy Waskie (Pennsylvania at Chancellorsville)

Eric Wittenberg (the Cavalry in the Chancellorsville campaign

1997 - Jackson's Valley Campaign

Symposium Chairman - Vince Mercandetti

Dr. James McPherson (Davis and His Generals: Confederate Strategy and Leadership in the Civil War)

Edwin Bearss (Overview of Jackson's Valley Campaign)

Michael Cavanaugh (Turner Ashby: The Cavalry of Jackson)

Dennis Frye (Summary and Legacy of Jackson's Valley Campaign and modern update)

Gerry Holsworth (the Devil Diarists of Winchester: civilians in Jackson's Valley Campaign)

Dr. David Martin (Union leadership in the Valley Campaign)

Scott Washburn (Tactics at Kernstown; March 23, 1862)

1996 - Antietam

Symposium Chairman - Roger Arthur

Bill Adams (Pennsylvania at Antietam)

Vincent Armstrong (Tactics and weapons at Antietam)

Vincent Armstrong (the West Woods)

Joseph Bilby (Meagher and the Irish Brigade)

Paul Chiles (Armies and commanders through September 17, 1862)

Jim Durkin (90th Pennsylvania in the Cornfield)

Al Gambone (Hartranft and the 51st Pennsylvania at Burnside's Bridge)

Dr. Joseph Harsh (McClellan)

Dr. Joseph Harsh (Overview of the Antietam Campaign)

Gerry Holsworth (Antietam personalities)

Gerry Holsworth (Hood's Texans in the Cornfield)

Carol Neumann (Nursing and civilians at Antietam)

1995 - The Petersburg Campaign

Symposium Chairwoman - Carol Neumann

Chris Calkins (Battle of Five Forks)

Michael Cavanaugh (Battle of the Crater)

John Horn (12th Virginia at Petersburg)

Frank O'Reilly (Review of the Overland Campaign)

Noah Andre Trudeau (the Petersburg campaign in detail)

Bill Wagner (Civil War on the internet)