2025 Summer Lecture Series

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 Speaker TBD Title TBD

June 9 Speaker TBD Title TBD

June 16 Speaker TBD Title TBD

June 23 Speaker TBD Title TBD

June 30 Darrin Whipperman “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 Speaker TBD Title TBD

July 21 Speaker TBD Title TBD

July 28 Speaker TBD Title TBD

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