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The Civil War keeps us quite busy at Gettysburg College.
Here are some other things our Minors have been up to:

James Cousins (Dickinson College) and Sarah Handley (Wells College) who met when they participated in the 2005 Gettysburg Semester got engaged on December 8th in Aurora New York on the Wells College Campus!!  James and Sarah plan on getting married in 2010 when they both finish grad school.  Congratulations James and Sarah!

 James and Sarah

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CWES Minor John Rudy '07 chose the Battle of Gettysburg as the subject of his final project for Speech 101.  This 10-minute "mockumentary" lampoons some of the questions of the battlefield, and proves that you can't spell "Fundamentals of History" without FUN.

Click on the image to the left to open up the YouTube video.

Brian Jordan ('09) will be presenting a paper, "The Little Giant and Old Buck: Stephen A. Douglas, James Buchanan, the Lecompton Constitution, and the Crisis of the American Nation" in historic Lecompton, Kansas, for the Kansas Historical Society's "Bleeding Kansas 2007 Symposium" on February 11, 2007.

Brian is also about to publish his second book (he published his first when he was in 10th grade).  You GO Brian!!

 Brian Jordan & Dr. Guelzo
 Volunteering on the Battlefield Fence Painting 

A group of Civil War Era Studies students and friends volunteered on the Battlefield painting fences.

Trebuchet 

Civil War Era Studies Minors living in the Medieval Theme House built this 12' high trebuchet which they will demonstrated to the public.

PCG at School Students with PCG items

Dave Shadick and Tom Paone ('07), members of the Pennsylvania College Guard gave a living history presentation to a local school.

Traci Manning 

CWES Minor Traci Manning ('07) attended a wonderful conference on Civil War clothing last spring.  Click here to read her report.

Civil War Era Studies Minors, Gettysburg Semester participants and Instructor David Booz pose at the Union League of Philadelphia on Friday September 8th. 

Union League of Philadelphia 

The Civil War keeps us quite busy at Gettysburg College.
Here are some other things our Minors have been up to:

James Cousins (Dickinson College) and Sarah Handley (Wells College) who met when they participated in the 2005 Gettysburg Semester got engaged on December 8th in Aurora New York on the Wells College Campus!!  James and Sarah plan on getting married in 2010 when they both finish grad school.  Congratulations James and Sarah!

 James and Sarah

YouTube Preview

CWES Minor John Rudy '07 chose the Battle of Gettysburg as the subject of his final project for Speech 101.  This 10-minute "mockumentary" lampoons some of the questions of the battlefield, and proves that you can't spell "Fundamentals of History" without FUN.

Click on the image to the left to open up the YouTube video.

Brian Jordan ('09) will be presenting a paper, "The Little Giant and Old Buck: Stephen A. Douglas, James Buchanan, the Lecompton Constitution, and the Crisis of the American Nation" in historic Lecompton, Kansas, for the Kansas Historical Society's "Bleeding Kansas 2007 Symposium" on February 11, 2007.

Brian is also about to publish his second book (he published his first when he was in 10th grade).  You GO Brian!!

 Brian Jordan & Dr. Guelzo
 Volunteering on the Battlefield Fence Painting 

A group of Civil War Era Studies students and friends volunteered on the Battlefield painting fences.

Trebuchet 

Civil War Era Studies Minors living in the Medieval Theme House built this 12' high trebuchet which they will demonstrated to the public.

PCG at School Students with PCG items

Dave Shadick and Tom Paone ('07), members of the Pennsylvania College Guard gave a living history presentation to a local school.

Traci Manning 

CWES Minor Traci Manning ('07) attended a wonderful conference on Civil War clothing last spring.  Click here to read her report.

Civil War Era Studies Minors, Gettysburg Semester participants and Instructor David Booz pose at the Union League of Philadelphia on Friday September 8th. 

Union League of Philadelphia 
 
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