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2024 Fall Conference
We asked one of our sponsored student attendees, Garrett Hale to write a review of the Fall Conference and share their experiences and insights of the weekend event. September 27: First day of the conference The first day’s programs were very intriguing and established the conference’s focus around the southern end of the battlefield.…
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Leadership Seminar
The Antietam Institute conducted it’s first Leadership Seminar with members of the Michigan Army National Guard. For several months Institute members have been working with Mr. Adam Betz, the Command Historian of the Michigan National Guard to plan and coordinate the two-day seminar held at Shepherd’s Spring Retreat Center. Two senior non-commissioned officers (NCO)…
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What I learned at the Spring Symposium
Our Spring Symposium scholarship recipient was Shepherd University Freshman, Hayden Kreitzer. Here is he’s recap of the Symposium. I would consider myself comparatively well versed in American History, but not particularly the Civil War. The conflict was, in most teachings in my school, dully and sometimes inaccurately summarized: The South had the better…
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The “Commanders of Antietam” Speaker Series in the Pry Barn
Institute historian are back at the Pry House this summer for our “Commanders of Antietam” speaker series. Come to the Pry House to hear the contributors of the Commanders of Antietam discuss in detail some of the commanders that fought in the 1862 Maryland Campaign. The series is sponsored by the Antietam Institute and…
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2023 Fall Conference
We had an outstanding group of educators and historians leading the program for our third annual Fall Conference. This year’s theme was Prelude to Antietam: Forcing the South Mountain Gaps – looking at events of the Maryland Campaign of 1862 leading up to the battle of Antietam. Friday afternoon we kicked off with three featured speakers.…