Think history is boring? Look at what we’ve been diving
into lately!
2023
Presented by Brad Quinlin
January 12, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Betty Bolte
February 9, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Buttonwillow Civil War Theater, (Pigeon Forge, TN)
February 21, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Buttonwillow Civil War Theater, (Pigeon Forge, TN)
February 22, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Greg Biggs
March 9, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Mark Vogl
April 13, 2023 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Shelby Harriel
May 11, 2023 at 6:30 pm
2022
Presented by Ken Rutherford
January 13, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Wade Sokolosky
February 10, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Gen John Scales
March 10, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Lisa G.Samia
April 14, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Bernard and Terre Biederman
May 12, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Robert Girardi
June 9, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Jim McKee
July 14, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Curt Fields (AKA Gen U.S. Grant)
August 11, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Mike Bunn
September 8, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Kellee Blake
October 13, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Scales
October 29, 2022 at 7:00 am
Presented by Thomas Flagel
November 10, 2022 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Jeff Ewing & Emil Posey
December 8, 2022 at 6:30 pm
2021
Presented by John Scales
January 14, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Mike Acosta
February 11, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Mark Hubbs
March 11, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Kellee Blake
April 8, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Cole
May 13, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Dolores Hydock
June 10, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Randy Bishop
July 8, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Scott Mingus
August 12, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Scales
September 9, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Leland Free
October 14, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Scales
October 30, 2021 at 12:00 am
Presented by Fred Forst
December 9, 2021 at 6:30 pm
2020
Presented by Richard Jozefiak
January 9, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Dan Mallock
February 13, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Donna Castellano
March 12, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Judge (Ret) Breland
June 11, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Michael Acosta
July 9, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Ed Kennedy
August 13, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Mauriel Joslyn
September 10, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Curt Fields
October 8, 2020 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Phil Wirey
November 12, 2020 at 6:30 pm
2019
Presented by Chris McIlwain
January 10, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Ed Kennedy
February 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Claire Woerner
March 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Allen
April 11, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Curt Fields
May 9, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Carter
June 13, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Matt Spruill
July 11, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Paul Brueske
August 8, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Rebekah Davis
September 12, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by John Scales
October 10, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Presented by Michael Acosta
November 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm
2018
— “September Mourn: The Dunker Church of Antietam” presented by Terry Barkley
— “War Outside My Window” presented by Janet Croon
— “Atlanta Campaign Logistics” presented by Greg Biggs
— “Alabama in the Civil War” presented by John Sledge
— “Alton Military Prison” presented by Howard Mann
— “Battle of Nashville” presented by Ross Massey
— “Atlanta Campaign: Peach Tree Creek to the Surrender” presented by Stephen Davis
— “Battle of Port Royale” presented by Mike Coker
— “Naval” presented by Kent Wright
— “Captain Ryman” presented by Debbie Watts
— “Horses in the War Between the States” presented by Ed Kennedy
— “Trapped in the Crossfire” presented by Gladys Sherrer
2017
— “James Buchanan Eads: Pioneer Engineer in the 1800’s” presented by Phil Bording
— “Field Trip: Battle of Stones River” presented by David Lady
— “The Battle of Stones Rive” presented by David Lady and John Scales
— “The Confederacy at Flood Time” presented by Philip Leigh
— “Guntersville’s Teenage Diarist, Catherine Finnell” presented by Dr. Whitney Snow
— “The Softer Side of Forrest” presented by Brian Steele Wills
— “Did Anyone Really Know What Time It Was? The Lack of Time Standardization and Its Outcome on Many Battles” presented by Art Candenquist
— “Galvanized Yankees: The 1st US Volunteer Infantry Regiment” presented by Michele Butts
— “Captain Dave and the Yankees: Blockade Running on the Texas Coast” presented by Andy Hall
— “Sherman: Myth and Reality” presented by Dr. John Marszalek
— “Lincoln’s Evolving Policy on Slavery” presented by John Mason
— “Alabama’s Role in the Civil War” presented by Christopher Lyle McIlwain
2016
— “The Unraveling of a Confederate State; The Last Year of Civil War Alabama” presented by John Allen
— “Field Trip: Forrest Raids in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee” presented by John Scales
— “How the Civil War Still Lives” presented by James I. Robertson
— “Divided Allegiances; Guerrilla Activities and Hardships on the Homefront” presented by Greg Wade
— “Claude Minie and His Magic Musket Ball” presented by Mark Hubbs and David Lady
— “Trading With the Enemy” presented by Philip Leigh
— “Black Confederates; Forgotten Heroes of the South” presented by Ed Kennedy and Al Arnold
— “The Confederate Battle Flag; America’s Most Embattled Emblem” presented by Leland Free
— “Symposium: Four Years of Bloody War: Plicy and Strategy, Sedition and Emancipation” presented by Steven Woodworth, Kent Wright, Peggy Towns, Greg Biggs, and John Scales
— “Admiral Raphael Semmes and the Cruise of the CSS Alabama” presented by Edmund Semmes
— “Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science” presented by Dr. Shauna Divine
— “William Hooper Council: The Greatest Negro the Race Ever Produced” presented by Eddie E. Davis
— “The Second Coming of the Birneys to Huntsville; Presidential Candidates and Generals” presented by Topper Birney
2015
— “Enemies No Longer: The 1913 Civil War Veterans Reunion at Gettysburg” presented by Thomas Flagel
— “Zebulon Vance, The Best NC Governor and Potential CS Presidential Candidate” presented by Gary Waddey
— “DeBow’s Review; The Antebellum Vision of a New South (New Directions in Southern History)” presented by Dr. John Kvach
— “Henry Hotze and the Confederate Index” presented by Greg Baines (UK)
— “(Local) Field Trip: Huntsville Trolley Tour” presented by Jacque Reeves
— “Sesquicentennial Event: Weeden House Tea and Garden Stroll” presented by Dr. Carol Codori (organizer)
— “David Todd: Mary Lincoln’s Huntsville Brother” presented by Jacque Reeves
— “Reconstruction in Alabama” presented by Richard Bailey
— “Field Trip: John Bell Hood’s Final Chapter: The Battle of Franklin, the Siege of Nashville, and the End of the War in the West” presented by Kent Wright
— “John Bell Hood; The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General” presented by Steven M. “Sam” Hood
— “Appomattox” presented by A. Wilson Greene
— “Sherman and Andersonville: Why Uncle Billy Never Came to the Rescue” presented by Robert Scott Davis
— “What the Yankees Did to Us” presented by Steve Davis
— “Chancellorsville and Suffolk Corollary” presented by Brian Steele Wills
2014
— “Lincoln and His Admirals” presented by Craig Symonds
— “Field Trip: Montgomery, Mobile Bay, Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort, and Fort Blakely” presented by John Mason
— “Quantrill’s Raiders and the Massacre at Lawrence, Kansas” presented by David Lady
— “After Fort Sanders: Longstreet in East Tennessee” presented by Dr. Earl Hess
— “Field Trip: A Bluff Beats a Streight (Steight’s Raid in Alabama)” presented by John Scales
— “The Career and Influence of Civil War Historian Bruce Catton” presented by Jeffery Ewing
— “Soldiers, Spies and Femme Fatales” presented by Charen N. Fink
— “Confederate Brigadier General James Jay Archer’s Famed Tennessee Brigade” presented by Randy Bishop
— “Jefferson Davis, the Man” presented by Ron Sydnor
— “A Bluff Beats a Streight; Forrest’s Capture of a Union Cavalry Brigade in North Alabama” presented by John Scales
— “‘…a Want of Confidence… ’; Longstreet’s East Tennessee Campaign.” presented by Dorothey E. (Dot) Kelly
— “Telegraphing Burnside: Bragg, Longstreet, and the Moves Against Knoxville” presented by James Ogden
— “Joseph Johnston and John Bell Hood in the Atlanta campaign” presented by Bruce Stewart
2013
— “The Battle of Mobile Bay” presented by John Mason
— “Symposium: The Civil War in the Western Theater” presented by Arley McCormick (organizer)
— “Sesquicentennial Dinner: An Evening Social at the The Ledges” presented by Dr. Carol Codori (organizer)
— “A Mighty Fortress of Faith” presented by Pat Tumminello
— “Field Trip: Parker’s Crossroads and Shiloh” presented by Mark Hubbs and Byron Butler
— “General Rosecrans’ Signal Corps; the War Winning Secret Weapon Nobody Has Ever Heard Of” presented by Howard Rhe
— “The Tennessee Brigade” presented by Dr. Randy Bishop
— “God’s Almost Chosen People; A Religious History of the American Civil War” presented by George Rable
— “Getting Right With Gettysburg” presented by Richard McMurry
— “Franklin Before the Battle” presented by Thomas Flagel
— “A River Town’s Fight For Life” presented by J. F. (Pete) Sparks
— “Soldiers in Hoop Skirts; Spies, Nurses, and other Fighting Women of the Civil War” presented by Delores Hydock
— “The Civil War in Northern Alabama” presented by Bob Sackheim
— “The Amazing True-Life Story of Escaped Slave Robert Smalls” presented by Kraig McNutt
2012
— “Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville” presented by Jim Sasser
— “Field Trip: Atlanta Campaign, Part 2, Battle of Atlanta to Jonesboro” presented by Greg Biggs
— “Johnston’s Rubicon: The Fall of Atlanta and the Rise of John Bell Hood” presented by Greg Biggs
— “Sesquicentennial Dinner: The First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas; A New Face on the War” presented by Ed Bearss
— “Treason on the Underground Railroad; The story of the Christiana, PA and Wellington/Oberlin, Ohio Rescues” presented by Jeff Ewing
— “Loyal Cavaliers: Tennessee’s Union Cavalrymen” presented by Myers Brown
— “George H. Thomas and Nashville; Was Thomas Really Slow at Nashville?” presented by Daniel E. Hughes
— “Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861” presented by Kenneth Noe
— “The Parting; the Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War” presented by Richard Adams
— “Duty Driven: North Alabama African Americans during the Civil War” presented by Peggy Towns
— “Messengers of Death: How the Press Reported the Civil War” presented by Thomas Flagel
— “Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion: The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign” presented by A. Wilson (Will) Greene
2011
— “Joseph “Fightin’ Joe” Wheeler – The Man, His Life, and His Plantation” presented by Luke Slaton
— “Field Trip: The Atlanta Campaign: Part 1, Ringold, GA to Kennesaw Mountain” presented by Greg Biggs
— “Sesquicentennial Dinner: The Round House” presented by David Byer (organizer)
— “Field Trip: Decatur tour of Old State Bank & Old Downtown Decatur” presented by Kent Wright (organizer)
— “Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861” presented by Ken Noe
— “The Money of Civil War Madison County” presented by Richard Jozefiak
— “Attack on the Confederate Right Juy 2, 1863: Did Hood Disobey and Order at the Battle of Gettysburg” presented by Morris Penny
— “The Life of Flora Cooke Stuart” presented by T. J. (Teej) Smith
— “To Go Out in Small Boats: Confederate Brown and Green Water Warfare” presented by Robert C. Davis
— “Fort Fisher: The Gibraltar of America; the Construction, Defense and Impact of the Fort and Wilmington, NC on the Southern War Effort” presented by Dr. James H. Sasser
— “Chicago’s Irish Legion, the 90th Illinois Volunteers” presented by James B. Swan
— “Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: Echoes of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer” presented by Al Elmore
— “Heroes of Huntsville during the Civil War – Heroines All” presented by Nancy Rohr
