Upcoming events

Save the date for our next free webinar:

Professor Kidada E. Williams. Photo Credit: Navy B. Rae Photography

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, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Reconstruction is one of the most significant eras in American history. But Black people’s experiences in this era are among the most misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of this story. African Americans’ accounts of the other war, the one white southerners waged on Black families, create a portrait of what Black southerners did with freedom and the price white extremists made them pay for their success. Survivors’ searing recollections of the war after the Civil War bring to light the ways that the revolutionary experiment of Reconstruction did not just fail, as so many of us have been taught, but was violently overthrown and abandoned.

Click here to register: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2Dr_NX7GSQGYbqO3sM99gQ#/registration

Civil War Weekend 2024

A full classroom pictured at the 2023 Civil War Weekend at Virginia Tech. Photo courtesy Richard Mallory Allnutt ( www.rmallnutt.com).

March 22-24, 2024

Virginia Tech’s Annual Civil War Weekend.

This year’s theme: “The Information War.” Although wars are ultimately decided on the battlefield, intelligence, propaganda, and even rumors play pivotal roles. We’ll explore the influence of different types of information on the course of the Civil War, ranging from Lincoln’s use of the telegraph to photographs and newspapers to communication among enslaved people.

You can also join us for an optional two-night field trip to Fredericksburg, VA. Led by renowned tour guide and retired National Park Service historian John Hennessy, we’ll study the changing nature of warfare at the epicenter of the Civil War’s Eastern Theater.

Click HERE for more information.

Please note: We are committed to making our events accessible. If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Paul Quigley at 540/231-9090 or pquigley@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.

Please note: All times are U.S. Eastern.

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