The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College (CWI) would like to offer the members of Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, Inc. a 15% discount to attend the CWI Summer Conference from June 12-17, 2020. You can find registration details about our conference on our website and the full schedule of events. We believe in your mission, and we are making this special offer to recognize the efforts of your organization in promoting the study of Civil War history.
For more than 35 years, the Civil War Institute has hosted a premiere annual summer conference bringing leading historians and diverse public audiences together for lectures, battlefield tours, small group discussions, and roundtable conversations about the Civil War era. Sessions, lodging, and meals are held on the 200-acre Gettysburg College campus, and there are part-time and full-time packages available.
For 2020, we are excited to feature leading Civil War scholars, Harold Holzer, Catherine Clinton, Brian Wills, Jeffry Wert, Carol Reardon, and Scott Hartwig within our lineup of more than 40 distinguished speakers and tour guides. The conference will feature a wide range of topics, including POW prison escapes, soldier impressment, the Civil War in the West, the guerrilla experience, and more. The 2020 program will also debut debates between leading scholars about Civil War generalship. This year’s topics include George B. McClellan at Antietam, James Longstreet, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.
In addition to touring the Gettysburg battlefield, participants will also be able to visit other nearby battlefields and such as First Manassas, 2nd Fredericksburg and Salem Church, Antietam, Cool Springs, Spotsylvania, and Bristoe Station. Attendees who prefer a shorter, more physically active experience can choose to sign up for our new “active track” package, which features lectures and a day and a half of walking-intensive tours of the Gettysburg battlefield with historian Timothy Orr. The 2020 conference offers something for everyone, from longtime students of the Civil War to those who are new to Civil War history.
We would very much appreciate it if you could share this special conference offer with your membership in your own promotional materials, including your newsletter and website. Feel free to use the conference description in this email and to share the link to the conference: https://www.gettysburg.edu/civil-war-institute/summer-conference/.
Attached please also find a pdf of our 2020 conference marketing card that you can distribute to your members. We would be happy to send you printed cards if you think your members might benefit more from a flyer that they can take home with them.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and we look forward to hearing from you in the near future if you’d like to join our list of partners!
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Heather Miller | Administrative Assistant | Civil War Institute
Gettysburg College | 300 North Washington Street | Box 435 |Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: 717.337.6590