RHODE ISLAND CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE PROGRAMS
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| June 1992 | Mark Dunkelman | Rhode Island Native Generals |
| September 1992 | Virginia Adams | On the Altar of Freedom |
| October 1992 | Thomas Turner | Lincoln's Assassination |
| November 1992 | film showing | "The Birth of a Nation" |
| January 1993 | open meeting | Round Table Discussion |
| February 1993 | Frank Williams | Collecting Lincolniana |
| March 1993 | Dan McConaghy | Second Day at Gettysburg |
| April 1993 | Joseph Frank | Seeing the Elephant |
| May 1993 | view collections at | Rhode Island Historical Society |
| June 1993 | Maury Klein | The Fort Sumter Crisis |
| September 1993 | Michael Burlingame | The Lincoln Marriage |
| October 1993 | Shirley Barrett | Voices From the Civil War |
| November 1993 | First Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Richard N. Current | Lincoln's Loyalists | |
| January 1994 | Gardiner Shattuck | Religion and Confederate Defeat |
| February 1994 | meeting canceled because of snowstorm | |
| March 1994 | Anthony Nicolosi | The Naval Academy in Newport |
| April 1994 | R. & M. Parmenter portray | A Civil War Surgeon and Nurse |
| May 1994 | view collections at | Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection |
| June 1994 | Andrew German | 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry |
| September 1994 | Will Hare | U.S. Engineer Battalion |
| October 1994 | Bill Hunter | 30th and 50th Wisconsin |
| November 1994 | Second Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Harold Holzer | The Civil War in Art | |
| January 1995 | Les Rolston | Samuel Postelthwaite |
| February 1995 | William F. Hanna | Lincoln's 1860 Visit to Rhode Island |
| March 1995 | Noah Dennen | Medford Historical Society Photo Collection |
| April 1995 | David Riley | Textile Industry Links R.I. and the South |
| May 1995 | view collections at | Providence Public Library |
| June 1995 | Edward Renehan | The Secret Six |
| September 1995 | Tom Shanahan | Sullivan Ballou |
| October 1995 | Phil DiMaria | Battery B, 1st R.I. Light Artillery |
| November 1995 | Third Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| William Marvel | Andersonville: The Last Depot | |
| January 1996 | Wayne Rowe | Robert E. Lee and Leadership |
| February 1996 | William E. Gienapp | Presidential Leadership of Abraham Lincoln |
| March 1996 | Pamela Lucashu portrays | U.S. Sanitary Commission |
| April 1996 | Bruce Trinque | Evolution of Tactics, 14th Connecticut |
| May 1996 | view collections at | Varnum Armory, East Greenwich |
| June 1996 | Donald Marcum | Artillery |
| September 1996 | Paul Oliveira | Maj. Henry H. Young, Chief of Scouts |
| October 1996 | Jim Rocha | Col. John S. Mosby |
| November 1996 | Forth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| David M. Sullivan | U.S. Marines at First Bull Run | |
| January 1997 | open meeting | Round Table Discussion |
| February 1997 | Fr. Timothy Ferguson | Amos Perry, 3rd R.I. Cavalry |
| March 1997 | Donald Yacovone | A Voice of Thunder |
| April 1997 | Wayne Rowe | Appomattox Campaign |
| May 1997 | Richard M. McMurry | The Gettysburg Splash |
| June 1997 | Mary Mierka | Women's Contributions During the War |
| September 1997 | Frederic Sherman Cauldwell | Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman |
| October 1997 | open meeting | Ghosts and Horror |
| November 1997 | Fifth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Jan Turnquist portrays | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| January 1998 | Paul Archetto | Gen. George A. Custer |
| February 1998 | Robb Dimick portrays | Abraham Lincoln |
| March 1998 | Gregg Mierka | Gen. George Sears Greene |
| April 1998 | Maury Klein | The Coming of the War |
| May 1998 | view collections at | Newport Artillery Company |
| June 1998 | John Moon | Fort Warren, Boston Harbor |
| September 1998 | open meeting | Round Table Discussion |
| October 1998 | Joseph Sullivan | The Blue, the Gray, and the Red |
| November 1998 | Sixth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Harry Dapper | The Great Dan Sickles | |
| January 1999 | Mark Dunkelman | Those Damned Dutchmen |
| February 1999 | view Lincoln collection of | Judge Frank J. Williams |
| March 1999 | open meeting | Round Table Discussion |
| April 1999 | Bruce Trinque | Confederate Battle Flags at Pickett's Charge |
| May 1999 | Mark Dunkelman | Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier |
| June 1999 | Joseph H. Geden | Confederate Capt. James D. Bulloch |
| September 1999 | Seventh Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Harry Roach | Mathew Brady's World | |
| January 2000 | open meeting | Round Table Discussion |
| February 2000 | William Rosengren | Brands and Music in a Prismatic Society |
| March 2000 | open meeting | Book Review |
| April 2000 | Samuel Hough | R.I. at Antietam, Robert Hale Ives |
| May 2000 | Societe d'Europe portrays | European Observers and Officers |
| July 2000 | open meeting | Discussion of Battles |
| September 2000 | Jim Matthews | Capt. Brian McKay, U.S. Navy |
| October 2000 | Tom and Deb Goodrich | A State of Siege: Kansas, 1854-1865 |
| November 2000 | Eighth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Earl McElfresh | Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War | |
| January 2001 | Edwin C. Bearss | The Knoxville Campaign |
| February 2001 | Bruce Trinque | Infantry Tactics |
| March 2001 | open meeting | Discussion of Generals |
| April 2001 | Brent Nosworthy | Tactical Developments in the 1850s |
| May 2001 | view collections at | John Hay Library, Brown University |
| June 2001 | Michael Vorenberg | Lincoln, the War, and Abolition |
| September 2001 | David M. Jordan | Gen. Gouveneur K. Warren |
| October 2001 | David W. Blight | Race and Reunion |
| November 2001 | Ninth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Bob Zeller | The Civil War in Depth | |
| January 2002 | Meg Galante-DeAngelis | Women in Civil War Era Songs and Ballads |
| February 2002 | Mackubin Thomas Owens | Robert E. Lee, Lost Cause, Revisionism |
| March 2002 | Sara Bartlett | Kady Brownell |
| April 2002 | Bob Hall | The Short Life of Pvt. William Dinsmore |
| May 2002 | Bob Borden | Patriotic Covers, Massachusetts Soldiers |
| June 2002 | view sights at | Fort Trumbell, New London, Connecticut |
| September 2002 | Mark Dunkelman | Coster Avenue Mural in Gettysburg |
| October 2002 | Edward S. Inman III | R.I. Secretary of State Broadside Project |
| November 2002 | Tenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| A. Wilson Greene | The Breakthrough at Petersburg | |
| January 2003 | Jim Cullen | Abraham Lincoln and the American Dream |
| February 2003 | Rob Goldman | 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored) |
| March 2003 | Al Nofi | Longstreet and his (Confederate) Ememies |
| April 2003 | Harriette Rinaldi | "No One But God and My Mother" |
| May 2003 | Mark Dunkelman | The 11th Corps at Chancellorsville |
| June 2003 | Bruce Trinque | The Cavalry Battle East of Gettysburg |
| September 2003 | James Tackach | Lincoln's Moral Vision: Second Inaugural |
| October 2003 | John Balco portrays | Gen. Ulysses S. Grant |
| November 2003 | Eleventh Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Elizabeth D. Leonard | Lincoln's Avengers | |
| January 2004 | open meeting | |
| February 2004 | Brent Nosworthy | The Bloody Crucible of Courage |
| March 2004 | Adam Braver | Mr. Lincoln's Wars |
| April 2004 | Mark Dunkelman | Sherman's March |
| May 2004 | Jeff Fioravanti | Civil War Art |
| June 2004 | Jay Schmidt | Fort Warren |
| September 2004 | Frank Fernandes | Sound on the Goose |
| October 2004 | Jeffrey C. Hall | The Stand of the U.S. Army at Gettysburg |
| November 2004 | Twelfth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Jacqueline Glass Campbell | When Sherman Marched North from the Sea | |
| January 2005 | David Pincins | The Confederate Soldier |
| February 2005 | Mark Dunkelman | Brothers One and All |
| March 2005 | Robert Bromley | Artillery |
| April 2005 | George Geer | 1st Minnesota at Gettysburg |
| May 2005 | Patti Cassidy | Frozen Glory, documentary on monuments |
| June 2005 | Michael Chesson | Exile in Richmond |
| September 2005 | open meeting | |
| October 2005 | Frank J. Williams | Judging Lincoln |
| November 2005 | Thirteenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Gordon Rhea | Carrying the Flag | |
| January 2006 | Richard F. Miller | The Harvard Regiment |
| February 2006 | Dana Zaiser | Civil War Tokens |
| March 2006 | Glenn W. LaFantasie | Twilight at Little Round Top |
| April 2006 | John Proctor | Henry Brown, 21st Massachusetts |
| May 2006 | Michael Werner | The Jewish Contribution in the Civil War |
| June 2006 | Michael Chesson | Journal of a Civil War Surgeon |
| September 2006 | Barnet Schecter | The Devil's Own Work, NYC Draft Riots |
| October 2006 | Richard Rupp | The 183rd Ohio at Franklin |
| November 2006 | Fourteenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| William Marvel | Mr. Lincoln Goes to War | |
| January 2007 | Chris Oates | Fighting for Home |
| February 2007 | Steve Usler | First. Lt. John K. Bucklyn, Battery E |
| March 2007 | James Tackach | Abraham Lincoln in Recent Fiction |
| April 2007 | Jim Littlefield | Coswell Tims, Slave Catcher |
| May 2007 | Richard Lobban | The Alford Brothers |
| June 2007 | Steve Adamson | Composer Henry Clay Work |
| September 2007 | Mark Dunkelman | War's Relentless Hand |
| October 2007 | Chuck Veit | How the U.S. Navy Won the Civil War |
| November 2007 | Fifteenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Mark Dunkelman | Marching with Sherman | |
| January 2008 | Deak Nabors | Victory of Law |
| February 2008 | Robert Grandchamp | 7th Rhode Island Infantry |
| March 2008 | Tom Craughwell | Stealing Lincoln's Body |
| April 2008 | Jim Jordan | The South Ponders Civil War |
| May 2008 | 14th R.I. Heavy Artillery | Living History |
| June 2008 | Wayne Rowe | 1st Company, Richmond Howitzers |
| September 2008 | Open Meeting | |
| October 2008 | Don Skuce | Col. Dick Howard of Cowesset |
| November 2008 | Sixteenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Margaret Creighton | The Colors of Courage | |
| January 2009 | Jim Littlefield | James Rufus Kelly |
| February 2009 | James Tackach | Recent Trends in Lincoln Scholarship |
| March 2009 | Larry McDonald | The Civil War in Miniature |
| April 2009 | Mark Dunkelman | Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Regiment |
| May 2009 | James F. Epperson | The Prisoner of War Cartel |
| June 2009 | Sam Hough | The Red Badge of Courage |
| September 2009 | Les Rolston | Long Time Gone |
| October 2009 | Richard Katula | The Eloquence of Edward Everett |
| November 2009 | Seventeenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Michael Burlingame | Abraham Lincoln: A Life | |
| January 2010 | Robert Grandchamp | Battery G, 1st R.I. Light Artillery |
| February 2010 | David O. Stewart | Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy |
| April 2010 | John Waghelstein | Guerrillas in the Midst and/or The Dark Side |
| May 2010 | Sam Hough | Brown University in the Civil War |
| June 2010 | Frank Grzyb | Lovell General Hospital, Portsmouth Grove, R.I. |
| September 2010 | Open Meeting | |
| October 2010 | Calvin Goddard Zon | The Good Fight That Didn't End: Henry P. Goddard's Accounts of Civil War and Peace |
| November 2010 | Eighteenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Jeffry D. Wert | General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier | |
| January 2011 | Robert Grandchamp | Artifacts of the 7th Rhode Island Volunteers |
| February 2011 | Frank J. Williams | Lincoln on the Cusp of the Civil War Sesquicentennial |
| March 2011 | Mark Dunkelman | Adventures of a Civil War Historian |
| April 2011 | James F. Epperson | The Battle of Five Forks |
| May 2011 | John H. Proctor | Civil War Trivia Quiz |
| June 2011 | Ed Norris | Civil War Flags |
| September 2011 | Theodore Gatchel | Civil War Weapons, Tactics, and Technology |
| October 2011 | Wayne Rowe | Naval Operations during the Civil War |
| November 2011 | Nineteenth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Kevin Levin | Civil War Memory and the Sesquicentennial | |
| January 2012 | Elisa Miller | Women and Gender in the Civil War |
| February 2012 | Open Meeting | People of the Civil War Era |
| March 2012 | George Proulx | Civil War Music |
| April 2012 | Thomas J. Craughwell | The Greatest Brigade |
| May 2012 | Thom Bassett | The Burning of Columbia |
| June 2012 | David E. Decker | General George H. Thomas |
| September 2012 | Frank Grzyb | Lovell General Hospital |
| October 2012 | Brian Matthew Jordan | When Billy Comes Marching Home |
| November 2012 | Twentieth Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Gerald J. Prokopowicz | Did Lincoln Own Slaves? | |
| January 2013 | Taylor M. Polites | The Rebel Wife |
| February 2013 | Christian B. Keller | The Savage War |
| March 2013 | Thomas F. Morrissey | Origins of Photographic Images from the American Civil War |
| April 2013 | Daniel S. Santos | General Silas Casey |
| May 2013 | Kevin Levin | Remembering the Battle of the Crater |
| June 2013 | Chris Mackowski | Chancellorsville: Crossroads of Fire |
| September 2013 | Rev. Bob Macfarlane | A Visit from General Chamberlain |
| October 2013 | Thom Bassett | Sherman, Lincoln, and Colored Troops |
| November 2013 | Twenty-first Annual Dinner Meeting | |
| Stephen Davis | What the Yankees Did to Us | |
| January 2014 | Les Rolston | Home of the Brave |
| February 2014 | Megan Kate Nelson | Ruin Nation |
| March 2014 | Kevin Levin | Black Confederates |
| April 2014 | Frank Grzyb | Hidden History of Rhode Island and the Civil War |
| May 2014 | Bob Carlson | Sharpshooter Weapons |
| June 2014 | Charles C. Cox III | Two Families and a Gorham Pitcher |
| September 2014 | Paul Bourget | Brigadier General George Sears Greene |
| October 2014 | Rob Goldman | 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Living History |
| November 2014 | David Moore | William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory |
| January 2015 | Talley Bailey | Shadow Soldiers of the Confederacy |
| February 2015 | Kevin Levin | The 55th Massachusetts and the Pay Crisis |
| March 2015 | Mark Mello | Pickett’s Charge |
| April 2015 | Walter L. Powell | Gettysburg’s David Wills House |
| May 2015 | Cathy Wright | American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia |
| June 2015 | Sarah Goldberger | Yorktown and the 1862 Peninsula Campaign |
| September 2015 | Open Meeting | |
| October 2015 | Barbara F. Berenson | Boston and the Civil War |
| November 2015 | Philip Leigh | Trading with the Enemy |
| January 2016 | Gregg Mierka | Governor William Sprague and the Sprague Mansion |
| February 2016 | Samuel Hough | Brown University in the Civil War |
| March 2016 | Kevin Levin | History and Memory of the Confederate Flag |
| April 2016 | Mark Mello | General Henry Hunt |
| May 2016 | Patrick H. Breen | The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood |
| June 2016 | Mark Dunkelman | Patrick Henry Jones |
| September 2016 | Frank Grzyb | The Last Civil War Veterans |
| October 2016 | James Tackach | Frederick William Stowe |
| November 2016 | Twenty-second Annual Dinner Meeting | Bob Zeller The Grand Review: Discoveries and Explorations in Civil War Photography |
| January 2017 | Todd Brewster | Lincoln’s Gamble |
| February 2017 | Chuck Veit | Sea Miner |
| March 2017 | David T. Dixon | The Lost Gettysburg Address |
| April 2017 | Sharon B. Smith | Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel |
| May 2017 | Wayne Rowe | Artillery |
| June 2017 | Mike DiLauro | The Amasa Sprague Murder |
| September 2017 | Jack Richer | Antietam |
| October 2017 | Open Meeting | |
| November 2017 | Twenty-third Annual Dinner Meeting | Stephen D. Engle, Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union’s War Governors |
| January 2018 | Kevin Levin | Understanding Confederate Monuments in the Wake of Charlottesville |
| February 2018 | Michael McCarthy | Confederate Waterloo: The Battle of Five Forks |
| March 2018 | Meeting cancelled due to weather | |
| April 2018 | David Prentiss | Saving Democracy: Lincoln’s Political Religion and the American Pursuit of Justice |
| May 2018 | Mark Dunkelman | Gettysburg’s Coster Avenue: The Brickyard Fight and the Mural |
| June 2018 | David Kelly | The Trent Affair |
| September 2018 | Jon Scott Logel | Designing Gotham: West Point Engineers and the Rise of Modern New York, 1817-1898 |
| October 2018 | Tom Foley | A Gettysburg Rock in Apponaug |
| November 2018 | Twenty-fourth Annual Dinner Meeting | Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals |
| January 2019 | William C. Emerson | Capt. George N. Bliss, 1st Rhode Island Cavalry |
| February 2019 | Kevin Levin | Meeting cancelled due to weather |
| March 2019 | Megan Kate Nelson | The Civil War in the (Far, Far) West |
| April 2019 | Mark Mello | The Triangular Field at Gettysburg |
| May 2019 | Gary Morgan | The Andersonville Raiders |
| June 2019 | Wayne Rowe | John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincoln |
| September 2019 | Walter Powell | Henry Clay Work |
| October 2019 | Michael Vorenberg | When Did the Civil War End? |
| November 2019 | Twenty-fifth Annual Dinner Meeting | James B. Conroy, Lincoln’s White House |
| January 2020 | Kevin Levin | Searching for Black Confederates |
| February 2020 | Guntis Goncarovs | Convergence of Valor: The Men of the H. L. Hunley |
| March 2020 | Cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic | |
| April 2020 | Cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic | |
| May 2020 | Cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic | |
| June 2020 | Cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic | |
| September 2020 | Megan Kate Nelson | Brig. Gen. James Henry Carleton |
| October 2020 | David A. Kelly Jr. | The Sultana Tragedy |
| November 2020 | Dana Zaiser | Money Alternatives of the Civil War |
| January 2021 | Ben Kemp | General Grant's Final Days and the Grant Cottage Historic Site |
| February 2021 | Steven J. Ramold | Obstinate Heroism: The Confederate Surrenders after Appomattox |
| March 2021 | William Leeman | West Point's War |
| April 2021 | Mary Gorman (aka Gary Morgan) | Unknown Andersonville |
| May 2021 | David Dixon | August Willich |
| June 2021 | Carleton Young | Voices from the Attic: The Williamstown Boys in the Civil War |
| September 2021 | James Tackach | Lincoln and the Natural Environment |
| October 2021 | Patrick Donovan | Tour of Varnum Armory, East Greenwich |
| November 2021 | 26th Annual Dinner Meeting | Edward C. Achorn, Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln |
| January 2022 | Carolyn B. Ivanoff | A Hard Road to Travel: From Connecticut to Gettysburg 1863 |
| February 2022 | Mark Mello | A Compact with the Whale: The CSS Shenandoah’s Destructive Cruise and New Bedford’s Whaling Industry |
| March 2022 | Phil DiMaria | Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery |
| April 2022 | Kevin Levin | Robert Gould Shaw |
| May 2022 | Leon Reed | Secession in the Border States |
| June 2022 | Stephen G. Evangelista | Our Story: The Lives and Legacy of Those Who Served in Battery B, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery |
| September 2022 | Wayne Rowe | The Many Wonders of Gettysburg |
| October 2022 | Richard Spicer | The 3rd New Hampshire and Hilton Head Post Band |
| November 2022 | 27th Annual Dinner Meeting | Robert C. Conner, James Montgomery |
| January 2023 | Mark Dunkelman | Marching with Sherman |
| February 2023 | Beverly Robertson | Teaching Civil War History to Fifth Graders |
| March 2023 | Paul Bourget | General George S. Greene on the Impact of Chancellorsville on Gettysburg |
| April 2023 | Gregg Mierka | Ambrose E. Burnside |
| May 2023 | Aaron Bolis | Clothing and Equipment Issued to the Army of Northern Virginia |
| June 2023 | David A. Kelly Jr. | Defending Wirz: The Law Firm of Hughes, Denver and Peck |
| September 2023 | Wayne Rowe | The CSS Tallahassee |
| October 2023 | Jack Richer | The 1862 Kentucky Campaign |
| November 2023 | 28th Annual Dinner Meeting | Joseph F. Wilson, Walt Whitman in the Civil War |
| January 2024 | Edward Achorn | The Lincoln Miracle |
| February 2024 | Janet M. Drake | George W. Harwood, 36th Massachusetts |
| March 2024 | Carolyn B. Ivanoff | We Fought at Gettysburg (17th Connecticut) |
| April 2024 | Kellie B. Gormley | Cease Firing: Life and Death at the Swope Manor |
| May 2024 | Andrew T. Zwilling | TBA |
| June 2024 | TBA | TBA |
| September 2024 | Kevin Levin | TBA |
| October 2024 | Sharon Ann Murphy | Banking on Slavery |
| November 2024 | 29th Annual Dinner Meeting | Chandra M. Manning, The Civil War Emancipation as a Refugee Crisis |