New York City Civil War Round Table
| Round Table Name/Chapter: | Civil War Round Table of New York | |
| Introduction/History: | Founded in 1951 and celebrating our 58th anniversary. Meetings include dinner at 6:00 p.m. followed by lectures. Speakers have included award-winning authors/historians with names such as Goodwin, McPherson, Robertson, Foote, Bearss, Symonds, Holzer to name a few. We present the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award each May and have since 1956. We also present the Baroness/Lincoln Award every February and have since 1962. Each May we sponsor battlefield tours. | |
| Meeting Location/Place: | 3 West Club | |
| Street Address: | 3 West 51st Street | |
| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Zip Code: | 11422 | |
| Meeting Date(s) and Time: | second Wednesday or each month Sept - June at 6:00 p.m. | |
| Contact Person: | Patrick Falci | |
| Contact's E-Mail: | basecat@civilwarhome.com | |
| Contact's Phone Number: | 718-341-9811 | |
| Round Table Website Address: | www.cwrtnyc.org |
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments