This session will focus on the wars that came immediately before and after the Civil War and the changing character of war as it was fought over the course of the nineteenth century, placing a particular emphasis on the experience of the soldiers who fought at Gettysburg and speaking to the way emerging technologies and evolving tactics affected the way the war was experienced on the ground and how the repercussions of the war affected the lives of survivors.

Facilitator: Dr. Ian Isherwood, Associate Professor of War & Memory Studies at Gettysburg College

This session will focus on helping participants conceptualize the teaching project they are asked to produce as a result of participating in the Landmarks workshop and orienting them to the task of sharing their project results with the workshop team prior to departure or shortly after arriving at home.

Facilitator: Dr. Dave Powell

Participants will recap the events of the battle’s first day and then pursue an intensive exploration of the events of the next two days of battle with particular emphasis on Confederate General Richard Ewell’s choice not to pursue the scattered Union troops attempting to obtain high ground at Cemetery Hill, a decision that contributed to General Lee’s ordering of Pickett’s Charge.

Facilitator: Dr. Tim Orr, Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University

This seminar will focus on how Pickett’s Charge was shaped by the forces of history and memory during and after the war, and how its remembrance complicates our understanding of the war’s outcomes.

Facilitator: Dr. Carol Reardon

Dr. Jill Ogline Titus, acting Director of the Civil War Institute and Instructor of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College.

In this session Dr. Titus will use centennial events staged at Gettysburg to help participants explore the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America and show how the era’s deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight as white and black Americans came to define the meaning of the battle of Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address, and the Civil War in dramatically different ways.

Dr. Hilary Green, James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College.

African Americans have remembered the Gettysburg campaign in complex ways. In one south-central Pennsylvania county, African Americans remembered the effects of the Confederate invasion, occupation, and seizure of Black Pennsylvanians in addition to the military events on the battlefield over July 1-3, 1863. From USCT recruitment to presidential campaign songwriting, Dr. Green’s seminar will explore how the African American community of Franklin County used the memory of the Gettysburg campaign in a variety of ways over the nineteenth and twentieth century. It will showcase the specific experiences of Joseph R. Winters, Priscilla Marshall, Thomas L. White, and Edna Christian Knapper for understanding how Gettysburg’s Hallowed Grounds and its memory affected diverse communities at the Pennsylvania-Maryland border.

Dr. McKinley Melton, Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Rhodes College

This workshop will invite educators to examine ways that history, memory, and imagination serve as complement and complication in the work of Black writers.  We will explore how prominent writers articulate the importance of memory in shaping their creative work, not only with respect to how they engage the past, but also its ongoing significance in the present.  We will then consider illustrative works that draw parallels between key moments from the Civil War Era and the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century.  Finally, bridging the day’s discussing with the lessons that they’ve learned during their week-long seminar educators will be invited to consider how they might develop lesson plans, classroom exercises, or assignments that enable students to consider the history, memory, and imagination in Black creative expression, with a focus on place broadly and Gettysburg specifically.

Dr. Dave Powell, Project Director and Professor of Public Policy at Gettysburg College

In this session Dr. Powell, a veteran teacher educator, will share strategies for connecting the content of the week’s sessions to goals associated with protecting and extending democracy.

In this final session participants will have an opportunity to share their progress on teaching projects and share insights and reflections on the week’s activities with one another before departing Gettysburg.

Facilitator: Dr. Dave Powell

This session will focus on the wars that came immediately before and after the Civil War and the changing character of war as it was fought over the course of the nineteenth century, placing a particular emphasis on the experience of the soldiers who fought at Gettysburg and speaking to the way emerging technologies and evolving tactics affected the way the war was experienced on the ground and how the repercussions of the war affected the lives of survivors.

Facilitator: Dr. Ian Isherwood, Associate Professor of War & Memory Studies at Gettysburg College

This session will focus on helping participants conceptualize the teaching project they are asked to produce as a result of participating in the Landmarks workshop and orienting them to the task of sharing their project results with the workshop team prior to departure or shortly after arriving at home.

Facilitator: Dr. Dave Powell

Participants will recap the events of the battle’s first day and then pursue an intensive exploration of the events of the next two days of battle with particular emphasis on Confederate General Richard Ewell’s choice not to pursue the scattered Union troops attempting to obtain high ground at Cemetery Hill, a decision that contributed to General Lee’s ordering of Pickett’s Charge.

Facilitator: Dr. Tim Orr, Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University

Dr. Reardon will lead a seminar focused on how Pickett’s Charge was shaped by the forces of history and memory during and after the war, and how its remembrance complicates our understanding of the war’s outcomes.

Facilitator: Dr. Carol Reardon

In this session Dr. Titus will use centennial events staged at Gettysburg to help participants explore the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America and show how the era’s deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight as white and black Americans came to define the meaning of the battle of Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address, and the Civil War in dramatically different ways.

Facilitator: Jill Ogline Titus, acting Director of the Civil War Institute and Instructor of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College

African Americans have remembered the Gettysburg campaign in complex ways. In one south-central Pennsylvania county, African Americans remembered the effects of the Confederate invasion, occupation, and seizure of Black Pennsylvanians in addition to the military events on the battlefield over July 1-3, 1863. From USCT recruitment to presidential campaign songwriting, Dr. Green’s seminar will explore how the African American community of Franklin County used the memory of the Gettysburg campaign in a variety of ways over the nineteenth and twentieth century. It will showcase the specific experiences of Joseph R. Winters, Priscilla Marshall, Thomas L. White, and Edna Christian Knapper for understanding how Gettysburg’s Hallowed Grounds and its memory affected diverse communities at the Pennsylvania-Maryland border.

Facilitator: Hilary Green, James B. Duke Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College

This workshop will invite educators to examine ways that history, memory, and imagination serve as complement and complication in the work of Black writers.  We will explore how prominent writers articulate the importance of memory in shaping their creative work, not only with respect to how they engage the past, but also its ongoing significance in the present.  We will then consider illustrative works that draw parallels between key moments from the Civil War Era and the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century.  Finally, bridging the day’s discussing with the lessons that they’ve learned during their week-long seminar educators will be invited to consider how they might develop lesson plans, classroom exercises, or assignments that enable students to consider the history, memory, and imagination in Black creative expression, with a focus on place broadly and Gettysburg specifically.

Facilitator: McKinley Melton, Associate Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Rhodes College

In this session Dr. Powell, a veteran teacher educator, will share strategies for connecting the content of the week’s sessions to goals associated with protecting and extending democracy.

Facilitator: Dave Powell, project director

In this final session participants will have an opportunity to share their progress on teaching projects and share insights and reflections on the week’s activities with one another before departing Gettysburg.

Facilitator: Dr. Dave Powell