September 19, 2016
Kenneth J. Serfass
An Evening with Ulysses S. Grant
October 17, 2016
Karen Abbott, Author
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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December 12, 2016
Carmen Delgado, CWFMNY
The Invisibles
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Jean Grenning, CWFMNY
The Civil War and Alaska
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July18, 2016
William H. Seward Award Winner
T. J. Stiles
Custer's Trials
Subsequently Awarded Pulitzer Prize
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November 21, 2016
Professor Daniel W. Crofts
Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery
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January 16, 2017
Susan Higgenbotham, Author
Hanging Mary Surratt
February 13, 2017
Thomas Clemens, Historian
Editing and Annotating Ezra Carman's History of the Antietam Campaign
March 20, 2017
David T. Dixon, Author
The Lost Gettysburg Address
April 17, 2017
Cooper H. Wingert, College Student and Author
Slavery and the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania
May 15, 2017
Prof. Paul Finkelman
Summer of '62 -- How Congress Paved the Way Towards Emancipation
2017 Meetings
2016 Meetings
2015 Meetings
2014 Meetings
2013 Meetings
2012 Meetings
2011 Meetings
2009-10 Meetings
June 20, 2016
Mark Tooley, Author
The Peace That Almost Was
May , 2016
Phyllis Rosenthal, CWFMNY
April 18, 2016
Prof. Theodore Hamm
Frederick Douglass and John Brown
The View From Brooklyn
March 14, 2016
Stephen Recker, Historian
Rare Images of Antietam
February 15, 2016
Prof. John McK. Barr
Loathing Lincoln
January 18, 2016
Joseph Rose, Author
Grant Under Fire
January 19, 2015
Philipp Greenwalt
The 1864 Shenandoah Campaign
February 15 , 2015
The Battle on the North Anna
Chris Mackowski
St. Bonaventure University
March 23, 2015
Jonathan White
Dreams and the Civil War
April 16 , 2015
Daniel Franke
Champion Hill and the Vicksburg Campaign
May 11 , 2015
The Battle of South Mountain
Brian Matthew Jordan
Gettysburg College
June 15 , 2015
Appomattox: The Campaign, Lee's Surrender, and its Legacy
Frank Scaturro
President, Grant Monument Association
July 20, 2015
William H. Seward Award Winner: Fierce Patriot
Robert L. O'Connell
November 16, 2015
Trading With The Enemy
Philip Leigh
October 19, 2015
William H. Seward Award Winner: Rebel Yell
S.C. Gwynne
September 21, 2015
Founders' Son
Richard Brookhiser
December 7, 2015
Winfield Scott
Jim Santagata, CWFMNY
January 20, 2014
Frank Scaturro
The Alabama Claims
February 24, 2014
Abraham Lincoln and the Border Region
Paula Hopewell
March 10, 2014
Brian Matthew Jordan
Marching Home
April 28 , 2014
Bob Berthelson
The Legacy of Matthew Brady
May 12 , 2014
Civil War Memory at West Point
Lt. Col. David Siri
U.S.M.A.
June 16 , 2014
Joshua Chamberlain: Soldier, Statesman, Scholar
Phil Vitiello
CWRT South Central Conn.
July 21, 2014
William H. Seward Award Winner: Civil War General and Indian Fighter
Robert W. Lull
September 15, 2014
150 Years Later -- A Presidential Debate From the 1864 Election
CWFMNY Members Nathan Burkan, Lou McElwee, Jim Santagata, and Paul Windels
October 20, 2014
Daredevil Hero of the Civil War
Jamie Malanowski
November 17, 2015
Hispanics in the Civil War
Ted Alexander
December 8, 2014
General "Extra" Billy Smith
Scott Mingus
January 16, 2013
Andrew Polsky
Abraham Lincoln and the Limits of Wartime Presidential Leadership
February 20, 2013
Ronald S. Coddington
Faces of War
March 20, 2013
Chris Mackowski
Grant's Last Battle
April 17, 2013
Peter J. D'Onofrio
Medical Advancements of the Civil War
May 15, 2013
Thomas Fleming
A Disease in the Public Mind
June 19, 2013
Prof. Carol Berkman
The Civil War Through the Eyes of Three Remarkable Women
July 17, 2013
William H. Seward Award Winner:
The Man Who Saved the Union
Henry W. Brands
September 16, 2013
Paul Windels III
CWFMNY President
John F. Reynolds's Last Day
October 15, 2013
Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Walter Stahr
November 18, 2013
Bill Morgan
A Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City
December 16, 2013
Jim Santagata
CWFMNY Secretary
Sherman's Demons
January 18, 2012
Jay Jorgensen
Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield
February 15, 2012
Jamie Malanowski
And the War Came
March 21, 2012
Barnet Schecter
The Devil's Own Work:
The Civil War Draft Riots
April 18, 2012
Maj. Joseph Scott
U.S.M.A.
Union Aeronautics During The Civil War
May 23, 2012
The Confederacy's Last Offensive
June 20, 2012
The Second Battle of Manassas and the Court-Martial of Fitz John Porter
July 18, 2012
Cotton and Race in the Making of America
September 19, 2012
CWFMNY
Jim Quinn: One Immigrant's Civil War
October 17, 2012
Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz
November 19, 2012
Brooklyn College
Gustavus Vasa Fox of the Union Navy
December 19, 2012
The Battle of the Crater
January 19, 2011
CWFMNY Panel with Nathan Burkan, Lou McElwee, and Paul Windels
What If?
February 16, 2011
Lou McElwee
CWFMNY
The Confederate Failure of Command in the West
March 16, 2011
Jamie Malanowski
Was the Civil War Inevitable?
April 13, 2011
Col. Ty Seidule
USMA
May 25, 2011
Scott Mingus
July 20, 2011
Shadow of Shiloh
Gail Stephens
September 21, 2011
The Antietam Peace
October 19, 2011
Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly
November 16, 2011
President Lincoln's Power to Pardon
December 14, 2011
The Garibaldi Guard
December 16, 2009
Josiah Bunting III
Unheroic Heroes
January 20, 2010
Jim Santagata, Secretary
CWFMNY
The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
February 17, 2010
David Duncan
Civil War Trust
The Slaughter Pen Farm at Fredericksburg
March 24, 2010
Tom Fleming
The Murder of Maj. Gen. Nelson
April 21, 2010
Matthew Borowick
CWRT of Central New Jersey
Civil War Economics
May 19, 2010
The Lincoln DNA Debate
June 16, 2010
CWFMNY
The United States Military Railroad
July 21, 2010
US Grant: American Hero,
American Myth
Joan Waugh
August 18, 2010
J.E.B. Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
September 15, 2010
Grant's Indian
October 20, 2010
John Brown: the Abolitionist and his Legacy
October 17, 2010
The FieryTrial: Abraham Lincoln an d American Slavery
December 15, 2010
Jim Santagata
CWFMNY Secretary
Henry Halleck, His Genius and His Dark Side
June 15, 2011
Into the Fight: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
