20th Annual Symposium Events
February 21st & 22nd, 2025
500 Tredegar St, Richmond, VA 23219
One ticket purchase provides access to all events on Friday & Saturday, and includes lunch on Symposium Saturday!
The American Civil War Museum’s 20th Annual Symposium: On The Battlefield will feature esteemed scholars discussing the course of the Civil War as part of the ACWM initiative ‘The Civil War & Remaking America’. This year’s event includes a special program on significant battlefield artifacts from the ACWM collection followed by a reception with the symposium speakers in the Tredegar museum lobby.
The symposium will be held in the Foundry building on the ACWM Tredegar campus. The Museum is just a few feet away, and symposium attendees will be given free general admission to the museum during the Symposium weekend (2/21 & 2/22). We hope you will join us for our special event weekend!
Presented as part of our continuing partnership with
The John L. Nau Center for Civil War Studies at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Andrew S. Bledsoe, Professor of History, Lee University, a historian of the American Civil War and American Military history he has been a fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg, the United States Army Heritage and Education Center, the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, and the Virginia Historical Society.
ACWM 2025 Symposium Lecture: The Evolution of Military Thought in the American Civil War
Dr. Anthony J. Cade, II, Ninteenth-century American military historian and Executive Council member of The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and an historian for the federal government. Dr. Cade is a retired United States Marine.
ACWM 2025 Symposium Lecture: We will Never Stop: The Louisiana Native Guards as Change Agents of Nineteenth-Century America
Dr. Shauna Devine, Assistant Professor at Schulich School of Medicine and Associate Research Professor in the Department of History, Western University
ACWM 2025 Symposium Lecture: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science: Three Critical Points in Wartime Medicine
Dr. Wayne Hsieh, Professor of Military History at the United States Naval Academy and author of West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace
ACWM 2025 Symposium Lecture: Science and Daring: Modern Arms and Discontents
Moderator
Dr. Caroline Janney
John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War, University of Virginia; Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
Caroline Janney is an author and historian whose scholarship focuses on the Civil War, Memory, and Women and Gender. She holds a B.A. in Government and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia. She is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia, where she also directs the Nau Center for Civil War History. She is the author of Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause and Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, which was awarded the Southern Historical Association’s Charles Sydnor Award and the American Civil War Museum’s Jefferson Davis Award and was an honorable mention for the OAH Avery O. Craven Award and Petersburg to Appomattox: The End of the War in Virginia. She is a past-president of the Society of Civil War Historians and a co-editor of the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America series.
Event Information
Location: 500 Tredegar St, Richmond, VA 23219
Registration
Your ticket to the ACWM 2025 Symposium includes:
• An exclusive reception with the Symposium speakers and a special program ‘Tools of Battle’ discussing artifacts in the ACWM Collection (2/21)
• Entry to the 2024 Symposium: The Impending Crisis, and a boxed lunch (2/22)
*Tickets purchased after the end of the day on February 18th will not include boxed lunch.
*Check-in and registration will occur in The Foundry from 8:45 AM to 9:30 AM on Saturday morning 2/22
Parking
Free parking will be available for this event in the parking lot on site. ACWM staff will be available to answer any questions and provide assistance upon your arrival.
Books
After the presentations, Symposium speakers will be available for book signings. Books can be purchased onsite at the event.
Ticket Information
ALL SALES ARE FINAL AFTER FEBRUARY 1ST, 2024.
Members – $100
(with promo code)
Non-ACWM Members – $150
Teachers & Students – $75 (with promo code)
Livestream – $35
(The livestream will begin on Saturday after check-in has concluded at 9:30 AM Eastern Standard Time)