June 2 – August 25, 2025
The Summer Lecture Series returns for its tenth year, now under the direction of the Antietam Institute.
All are welcome!
The Summer Lecture Series is held in McKinley Hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Sharpsburg, MD every Monday evening at 7:00 pm. The program starts on June 2nd and runs through August 25th. No advance registration is required and the lectures are free and open to the public.
The church is located at 209 West Main Street with a small parking area off the alley. More parking is available on Main and Hall Streets.
Each week we also hold a drawing for an autographed book or a Civil War print.
This year we have an amazing lineup of historians and scholars discussing their latest works and research about the Maryland Campaign and the Civil War.
2025 Lecture Schedule
June 2 – Robert M. Dunkerly The Final Attack at Antietam
June 16 – Sarah Kay Bierle “Directed to Take Command”: Winfield S. Hancock & Antietam’s Sunken Road
June 30 – Darin Wipperman “I Am Bullet Proof:” The Last Four Months of a Fifth Corps Soldier
July 7 – Dr. Alex Rossino Before September: The Origin of the 1862 Maryland Campaign
July 14 – Dr. Brad Gottfried Texas Brigade at Antietam
July 21 Tom McMillan “Little-Known Antietam: Henry Winters and ‘Mystery and Murder at the Lodge’”
July 28 – Jim Rosebrock Organization of the Federal Artillery in the Civil War
August 4 – Tracey McIntire The Fate of Antietam’s Wounded
August 11 – Steve Stotelmyer Little Mac at the Front
August 18 – Dr. Jen Murray Meade at War: General George Meade and the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
August 25 – John Schildt Frederick, the Crossroads of the Civil War