Join the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute (CWI), June 13-18, 2025, for a very special CWI conference honoring the life and scholarship of CWI’s late director, Dr. Peter S. Carmichael. Our line-up of over 45 distinguished speakers and tour guides, including Gary Gallagher, Kent Masterson Brown, Carol Reardon, Jennifer Murray, Caroline Janney, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Joseph Glatthaar, and Scott Hartwig will explore some of the major topics that animated Pete’s scholarly work, such as the culture of the common soldier, gender, politics, and honor in the Old South, doing Civil War history in public, Robert E. Lee in history and memory, and Indianans at Gettysburg.

Other topics include Gettysburg documents from the National Archives, the generalship and postwar life of James Longstreet, the Battle of Perryville, archaeological discoveries from Little Round Top, emancipation and early Reconstruction in the South, and more.

To register, copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www.gettysburg.edu/civil-war-institute/summer-conference/2025-cwi-conference

Attendees will also get to select from 11 different battlefield tour options, including evening and full-day tours, as well as our new, highly popular “hybrid tours” which combine a half-day of focused classwork with a half-day out on the battlefield.This year’s topics include (among others):

• An Exploration of Gary Gallagher’s Favorite Sites at Gettysburg 
• Unraveling the Mysteries of the Wheatfield 
• Florida and Floridians at Gettysburg 
• An Army War College Approach to Understanding Gettysburg

…and the return of our popular Active Track tour, with a focus on The Union 12thCorps at Gettysburg.

Additionally, attendees will have an opportunity to participate in the ever-popular “lunch-in” and “dine-in” small-group discussions with CWI faculty.

Thanks to the generosity of our partners at the Gettysburg Foundation, the conference will also feature an evening visit out to the historic George Spangler Farm on Saturday, June 14 for a special interpretive experience for all attendees.