June 1 – August 31, 2026
The Antietam Institute Summer Lecture Series returns for 2026, now in its eleventh year.
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 1st and runs through August 31st. 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.
Again 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.
2026 Lecture Schedule
June 1 – Jim McLean 14th New York State Militia in the Civil War
June 8 – Keith Snyder The Marines Land in Sharpsburg
June 15 – Michael Hardy “we were almost starved” The Confederate Soldier, Food, and the Maryland Campaign
June 22 – Darin Wipperman “A Brain the Size of a Hickory Nut:” Joe Hooker’s views about Ambrose Burnside
June 29 – – Dr. Brad Gottfried Grant and Meade: An uneasy Alliance
July 6 – Cory M. Pfarr Full View of the Enemy’s Lines: Reassessing Intelligence, Command, and the Federal Signal Service at Antietam
July 13 – Jen Murray “Your Golden Opportunity Is Gone?” General Meade & The Pursuit From Gettysburg
July 20 Jim Hessler Custer in the Maryland Campaign
July 27 – Timothy R. Snyder The Most Terrible Experience during the War: Stonewall Jackson’s Winter Campaign to Bath, Hancock, and Romney
August 3 – Benjamin L. Cwayna Slaughter along a Stone Wall: Gregg’s South Carolina Brigade during the Maryland Campaign
August 10 – Jack Dempsey “No Further Record” — POWs of the 7th Michigan Infantry
August 17 – Steven Eden Battlefield Calculus: Tactics, Technology, and the Battle of Antietam
August 24 – Jim Rosebrock and Aaron Holley “Make me a Map” The Creation of the Artillery Atlas of Antietam
August 31 – John Schildt A Farmer, a Physician, and a General: Henry Rohrbach, Nathan Mayer, and Isaac P. Rodman