The 2013 Symposium

"Person of the Year: 1863" where five Civil War scholars presented their nominees via lectures and the audience voted on the winner.

Watch the entire program, featuring Ed Ayers, Joseph Glatthaar, Robert K. Krick, Thomas Sebrell, and Jennifer Weber

Watch the lecture of the winning nominee only.

The 2012 Symposium

"Person of the Year: 1862" where five Civil War scholars presented their nominees via lectures and the audience voted on the winner.

C-SPAN aired the 2012 Symposium live and allowed viewers to call in and ask questions to the speakers after their presentations. You can watch that broadcast via the following two links.

Watch Part 1, which features the introduction, Robert K. Krick, and David Blight.

Watch Part 2, which features James McPherson, John Mountcastle, Emory Thomas, and the announcement of the audience's vote.

Museum Historian and Vice President of Research and Publications John Coski

Citizens School for Science and Technology Lecture: Naval Technology in the Civil War

John Coski talked about the "arms race" between the Union and Confederate navies within the larger international context of revolutions in naval technology at that time. Technological advances during the Civil War besides the use of ironclads included gains in mine, torpedo, and artillery design, as well as the first-time use of a submarine to sink an enemy ship.

Watch the lecture on C-SPAN's website.

Gary Gallagher fields a question in the Old House Chamber of the Virginia State Capitol.

The Decision He Was Born to Make

 A special lecture by Dr. Gary Gallagher on Robert E. Lee's decision to leave the U.S. Army and side with Virginia.

This lecture took place in the very spot where Lee formally took command of Virginia's forces on the 150th anniversary of the event, April 23, 2011.

Watch the lecture on C-SPAN's website.

The 2011 Symposium

"Person of the Year: 1861" where five Civil War scholars presented their nominees via lectures and the audience voted on the winner. "

Watch Part 1 which features Ed Bearss, William C. Davis and Christopher Kolakowski.
Watch Part 2 which features Lauranett Lee, James I. Robertson, a panel discussion of all the speakers, and the announcement of the audience's vote and winner of Person of the Year: 1861.

Southern Secession After South Carolina- Brown Bag Lunch Talk

Museum President and CEO Waite Rawls presented this lecture on how other Southern states followed South Carolina's lead and seceded.

This was the second of the Museum's Sesquicentennial Brown Bag Lunch Series.

Watch C-SPAN's recording of the lecture here.

Victorian Christmas Traditions

This special holiday lecture was given by Curator Cathy Wright and showed how people celebrated Christmas during the time of the Civil War.

Watch C-SPAN's recording here.

The 2010 Bottimore Lecture

Dr. William Freehling presented “Showdowns in Virginia: The Debates over Slavery and Secession, 1832 and 1861" at the University of Richmond's Keller Hall.

Watch the C-SPAN video of this lecture here.

Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Tyler had more to do with the Civil War than you might think. Civil War scholars Anne Sarah Rubin, Peter Onuf, William Freehling and Edward Crapol each tackle one of the presidents.

Watch all four lectures at C-SPAN's site.

The 2009 Bottimore Lecture

Dr. William Seale's lecture on "Presidents Lincoln and Davis at Home" compared the two wartime White Houses.

Watch the lecture on C-SPAN's website.

The 2002 Bottimore Lecture

Panelists Jerry Russell, Bob Krick, Dwight Pitcaithley, and Ed Ayers discussed "The Battle over the Battlefields," or rather the merits of a federal law requiring Civil War battlefields to incorporate exhibits and programs on the role of slavery in U.S. history.

Watch this lecture on C-SPAN's website.

The 2000 Evening Lecture Series

Panel Discussion on Lee’s Generalship with Bevin Alexander, Gary Gallagher, Joseph L. Harsh, and Alan T. Nolan.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/156676-1

The 2000 Evening Lecture Series

Emory M. Thomas presented “In the Shadow of Freeman: The Burdens of the Lee Biographer” as part of the Evening Lecture Series in 2000.

Watch the C-SPAN recording here.