Jon-Erik Gilot, Espy Post Curator

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to announce the return of our annual Civil War Symposium, slated for April 15, 2023. With the new year marking the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the symposium will focus on the events of the Gettysburg Campaign, both on the Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 On May 2, 1863, General Stonewall Jackson led his Second Corps around the flank of the unsuspecting Army of the Potomac during the Battle of Chancellorsville. During the night, Jackson was wounded by friendly fire when he rode between the Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of soldiers wrote letters home, many containing card-sized photos of themself. By the end of the conflict, thousands of letters remained undelivered at the Dead Letter Office in Washington, D.C. For decades after, Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required! Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 In the spring of 1861, America was pulling apart at the seams and George Brooks' life was in shambles. Destitute and reeling from a failed business venture and familial disagreement following a turbulent love affair, Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required! Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Next to John Brown himself, perhaps the most recognizable and evocative imageof John Brown's October 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry is the haunting portrait offormer slave turned raider Dangerfield Newby. This talk will follow Newby Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required! Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Aside from the battle of July 1863, perhaps the most famous event to have ever taken place in Gettysburg was the dedication of Soldiers’ National Cemetery four-and-a-half months later, defined by the 272-word address of Read More

In Person in the Studio at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required! Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Martial music played a vital role in Civil War armies. Basic daily activities - from when to wake up, go to sleep, and when to eat, were determined by some fifty short pieces of fife and Read More

Frederick Douglass: Advocate for Equality features an exploration of the full trajectory of Douglass’s epic life from 1818 to 1895. In this traveling exhibition, viewers can learn about Douglass’s escape from slavery, his work as an abolitionist, and his tireless fight for equality for all individuals in the Jim Crow era. This exhibition explores Douglass’s Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required! Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279On March 7, 1863, The Anglo-African published the now well-known address by Frederick Douglass concerning the recruitment of Black men for the U.S. military, "Men of Color, to Arms!". Throughout the war, the newspaper shared both Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHFacebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE details the improbable two-hundred-year journey of the original Star-Spangled Banner – from Fort McHenry in 1814, when Francis Scott Key first saw it, to the Smithsonian in 2024 – thanks to three Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHFacebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Over more than a year, John Banks crisscrossed the country, exploring battlefields, historic houses, forts, and more. He rode on the back of an ATV with his "psychotic connection" in Mississippi, went under the spell of an Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHFacebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Arguably the Battle of Gettysburg is the most studied event of the Civil War, with countless books, articles, and documentaries dedicated to fleshing out the event. In 1992, the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Killer Angels was Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH! Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegie No Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Developed from research for his historical novel In Freedom's Shadow, author Robert Hilliard will present a program on Spies, Slaves, and Secrets of the Civil War. This discussion will highlight a number of well-known, and some Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH! Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegieNo Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 **PLEASE NOTE 3rd SATURDAY DATE!** At daybreak on July 2nd, 1863, roughly 2800 dusty Pennsylvanians trudged wearily, but steadily, westward from McSherrystown, Pennsylvania. They had left the defenses of Washington to join the 5th Army Corps a few Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH! Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegieNo Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 In this presentation, Dr. Alaina E. Roberts will discuss the history of Black slave-ownership among the Five Tribes (the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole Nations) and the Reconstruction project the United States enforced in Indian Territory (Oklahoma), Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH! Organized in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1861, the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was among the most decorated of regiments fielded by the Keystone State during the Civil War. Company H of the regiment included many local residents and was commanded by Captain Thomas Espy, namesake of Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH! Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegieNo Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Gettysburg was part of a precarious borderland during the nineteenth century. The Mid-Atlantic borderland was a fundamentally ambiguous space where slavery and freedom intermixed because enslavers were able to kidnap free people of color as fugitive slaves. Free Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MH! Facebook: www.facebook.com/CarnegieCarnegieNo Account Required!Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 The Battle of Stones River, fought at the turning of the year from 1862-1863, was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The Army of the Cumberland and Army of Tennessee clashed for control of middle Read More

Buy Tickets Here! The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to announce the return of our annual Civil War Symposium, slated for April 11 - 12, 2025. Embracing attendee feedback from recent years, the 2025 symposium will focus on the 1862 Maryland Campaign, which culminated at the Battle of Antietam, the single Read More

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279**Please note this event will not be streamed via Facebook, and will not be recorded for our YouTube channel** Harriet Tubman's legendary life is widely known: escaping enslavement, leading others to freedom via the Underground Railroad, and tirelessly fighting for change. But a crucial chapter often overlooked is her daring Read More

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279Meeting ID: 937 057 9279**Please note this event will not be streamed via Facebook, and will not be recorded for our YouTube channel** The American Civil War is filled with incidents that illustrate some unique or interesting medical condition. In the Battle of Gettysburg, such events occurred to individuals whose names are well known, Read More

In Person in the Lincoln Gallery at ACFL&MHZoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9370579279 Meeting ID: 937 057 9279 Prior to the Conscription Act of 1863, Pennsylvania was the largest contributor to the Federal war effort in terms of manpower. There are few better examples of this than the 1862 Maryland Campaign. Pennsylvania put 81 different regiments or batteries into Read More