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January
  • 16th Annual Sarasota Civil War Symposium, January 23-26, 2008, Sarasota, FL, with William C. “Jack” Davis, Edwin C. Bearss, Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr., Joseph T. Glatthaar, Robert K. Krick, Richard M. McMurry, Scott C. Patchan, Charles P. Roland and John Y. Simon (Wednesday 7:00 PM-Saturday 12:00 N) $395 – includes 2 receptions & 2 lunches
  • The Second Seminole Indian War - A Field Tour, January 28-30, 2008, from Sarasota, FL led by Edwin C. Bearss (Monday 8:00 AM-Wednesday 5:00 PM) $765 Single Occupancy: $665 per person Double Occupancy - includes 2 nights lodging (in St. Augustine and Melbourne), 2 breakfasts and 3 lunches
  • 3rd Annual Sarasota World War II Conference, January 30-February 2, 2008, Sarasota, FL with Robert J. Dalessandro, Joseph H. Alexander, Harold Baumgarten, Edwin C. Bearss, Carlo D’Este, Richard B. Frank, Robert K. Krick, James Megellas, Charles P. Roland, Mark A. Stoler & Craig L. Symonds (Wednesday 7:00 PM-Saturday 12:00 N) $395 - includes 2 receptions & 2 lunches
  
   
February  
 
   
March  
  • The Road to Cowpens: The Battles of the American Revolution in South Carolina – Winter, 1780-1781: A Field & Walking Tour, March 27-29, 2008, Spartanburg, SC with Gary Ecelbarger and Scott C. Patchan (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
 
   
April  
  • Crimes of the Century: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank - A Seminar & Field Tour, April 4-6, 2008, Marietta, GA with Tommy Barber, Dave Cohen and Brandon H. Beck (Friday 7:30 PM-Sunday 11:30 AM) $295 – includes Saturday lunch & dinner
  • Gettysburg: The Confederate Advance on Day One – A Field & Walking Tour, April 19, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 – includes lunch
  • History Along the Outer Banks - A Field Tour of sites in and around Fort Branch, Hope Plantation, Elizabeth City, Wright Brother’s Memorial, Nag’s Head, Chicamacomick, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Roanoke Island Lost Colony/Fort Raleigh, Elizabethan Gardens, Somerset Place, Plymouth Museum, New Bern, Beaufort, Fort Macon, Wilmington, Fort Fisher, the Battleship North Carolina and Bentonville, April 21-26, 2008, beginning & ending in Raleigh, NC with Richard M. McMurry (Monday 6:30 PM - Saturday 5:30 PM) $1995 Single Occupancy; $1695 Double per Person - includes 6 nights’ lodging, 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 1 dinner
  • The Civil War in Middle Tennessee: Stones River and Tullahoma - A Walking Tour, April 25-26, 2008, Murfreesboro, TN with Thomas Y. Cartwright and David C. Hinze (Friday 8:00 AM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • Stonewall Jackson at Second Manassas: A Walking Tour, April 26, 2008, Manassas, VA with Gary Ecelbarger (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 - includes lunch
  
   
May  
  • Chancellorsville: An In-Depth Walking Tour, May 2-4, 2008, Fredericksburg, VA with Robert K. Krick (Friday 8:00 PM-Sunday 4:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • Gettysburg’s Wheatfield - An In-Depth Tactical Walking Tour, May 10, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Jay Jorgensen and Gary Kross (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 - includes lunch.
  • The Best of Bearss - Tours of 1st Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg Day Three, John Wilkes Booth’s Escape Route, Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, May 9-15, 2008, Leesburg, Virginia with Edwin C. Bears (Friday 7:00 PM-Thursday 6:00 PM) $995 - includes 6 breakfasts, 6 lunches and 2 dinners
  • South Mountain and Antietam: A Walking Tour, May 17-18, 2008, Sharpsburg, MD with John M. Priest (Saturday 8:30 AM-Sunday 3:30 PM) $295 – includes 2 lunches
  • Best of Bearss, Part VII – From Petersburg to Appomattox, May 25-30, 2008, based in Stony Creek, VA (near Petersburg) with Edwin C. Bearss (Sunday 6:30 PM-Friday 6:00 PM) $995 – includes 5 lunches and 2 dinners. For the first 10 Full-Pay registrations, the fee is $795 – Save $200
  • 6th Annual Shenandoah Valley Civil War Conference & Tour, May 28-31, 2008, Winchester, VA with Brandon Beck, Geraldine Kiefer, Jonathan A. Noyalas, Stephen Lee Ritchie and Charles P. Roland (Wednesday 5:30 PM-Saturday 8:00 PM) $395 - includes 2 dinners, 3 lunches and Saturday PM cookout
  
     
June  
  • Stonewall Jackson's Valley: Port Republic, Cross Keys, and Lexington - A Walking Tour, June 5-7, 2008, Lexington, VA with Robert K. Krick (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944, A Field Tour of Rome, Catania, Siracusa, Gela, Enna, Leonforte, Assoro, Agira, Mount Etna, Messina, Anzio, Cassino, Pompeii, Salerno, Paestum, Ortona, L’Aquila, Gran Sasso, Camp Imperatore and other sites, June 11-22, 2008, (Wednesday 7:00 PM-Sunday 8:30 AM) beginning and ending in Rome, with James Megellas, Robert J. Dalessandro and others TBA. Registration Fees: $4,795 - Single; $3,975 - Double per Person; includes 11 nights’ lodging, round-trip airfare between Rome and Catania, 11 breakfasts, several lunches and 4 dinners.
  • 3rd Annual All-Star Walking Tour of Gettysburg, June 13-15, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross, Susan Boardman, Andie Custer, Michael Vallone and another TBA (Friday 9:00 AM-Sunday 12:00 N) $345 - includes 2 lunches
  • The Clash of Cavalry in Virginia: Field & Walking Tours of Kelly’s Ford, Brandy Station, Trevilian Station and Cavalry sites in Culpeper, June 19-22, 2008, Culpeper, VA with Eric J. Wittenberg (Thursday 8:00 PM-Sunday 12:00 N) $395 – includes 2 lunches and Saturday night cookout
 
     
July  
  • Fort Necessity and Jumonville: George Washington’s First Military Campaign - A Field & Walking Tour, July 11-13, 2008, Greensburg, PA with Scott C. Patchan (Friday 8:00 PM-Sunday 12:00 N) $225 - includes Saturday lunch
  • Abraham Lincoln, Commander-in-Chief: A Seminar & Field Tour of sites related to Lincoln as the war-time President including the Library of Congress, Washington Navy Yard, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Fort Stevens and the Lincoln Cottage, July 16-19, 2008, Frederick, MD with Gary Ecelbarger (Wednesday 8:00 PM - Saturday 4:30 PM) $595 - includes 3 lunches and 1 dinner (For the first 10 Full-Pay Registrations the fee is $475 – Save $120)
  • Gettysburg: The Attack and Defense of Cemetery Ridge, A Walking Tour, July 19-20, 2008 with Gary Kross And Zachery A. Fry (Saturday 8:45 AM-Sunday 12:00 N) $195 – includes Saturday lunch
  • The Gettysburg Conference on World War II, July 31-August 3, 2008, Gettysburg, PA featuring an outstanding faculty of World War II veterans and historians TBA (Thursday 7:00 PM-Sunday 12:00 N) $495 – includes 2 receptions, 2 lunches and Saturday night banquet
  
August  
  • Stonewall Jackson’s Great Train Raid - Point of Rocks, Harpers Ferry, Martinsburg, Winchester, Strasburg and “up the Valley” to Staunton – A Field Tour, August 9-10, 2008, Winchester, VA with Arthur Candenquist (Saturday 8:30 AM-Sunday 3:30 PM) $295 – includes 2 lunches & Saturday dinner
  
September  
  • The Battle of Antietam: A Walking Tour, September 5-6, 2008, Sharpsburg, MD with Robert K. Krick (Friday 8:30 AM-Saturday 4:30 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • The Hurtgen Forest, the 99th Infantry at the Battle of the Bulge, and Bastogne - A Field Tour, September 4-11, 2008, Monschau, Germany with Charles P. Roland, Samuel Lombardo, Jean-Philippe Speder and Jean-Louis Seel (Thursday 6:00 PM-Thursday 6:30 PM) - includes 8 nights lodging, 8 breakfasts, several lunches and 2 dinners $3375 Single Occupancy; $2995 per person Double Occupancy
  • The Waterloo Campaign: The Eagles’ Last March - A Field & Walking Tour, September 12-13, 2008, Brussels, Belgium with Christopher L. Kolakowski (Friday 12:00 N-Saturday 8:30 PM) $695 Single Occupancy; $575 per person Double Occupancy - includes Friday & Saturday nights’ lodging in Brussels, 2 lunches and Saturday dinner
  • Antietam and Gettysburg- A Walking Tour of Two Battlefields focusing on Union and Confederate Leaders who fought at BOTH, September 13-14, 2008, Frederick, MD with Robert L. Baker (Saturday 8:45 AM-Sunday 4:00 PM) $295 - includes 2 lunches
  • Normandy: The Great Invasion - A Field Tour, September 15-22, 2008, beginning in Paris, France with Harold Baumgarten and other faculty members TBA (Monday 2:00 PM pickup at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris-Monday 5:00 PM) - includes 8 nights’ lodging, 7 breakfasts, several lunches and 2 dinners $3350 - Single Occupancy; $2825 per person - Double Occupancy. The First 10 Full Pay Registrations shall be $2680 - Single Occupancy (Save $670) and $2260 per person - Double Occupancy (Save $1,130 per Couple)
  • Harpers Ferry, Monocacy, Snickers Gap and 2nd Kernstown - Confederate High Command in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 - A Field & Walking Tour, September 18-20, 2008, Winchester, VA with Scott C. Patchan (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • Rogers' Rangers & The French & Indian War - A Field Tour, September 25-27, 2008, Lake George, NY with Bruce M. Venter and David C. Hinze (Thursday 8:00 PM-Saturday 500 PM) $395 - includes 2 lunches
  • The Three Days of the Battle of Gettysburg: From McPherson’s Woods through Pickett’s Charge - A Walking Tour, September 26-28, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Robert L. Baker (Friday 8:45 AM-Sunday 3:30 PM) $395 - includes 3 lunches
  
   
October  
  • The Battle of Monmouth - The Longest Single-Day Battle of the American Revolution: A Field & Walking Tour, October 4-5, 2008, Freehold, NJ with Rich Bellamy (Saturday 9:00 AM-Sunday 12:00 Noon) $225 - includes Saturday lunch
  • The Atlanta Campaign: A Field and Walking Tour of Cassville, Allatoona Pass, Dallas, New Hope (The Hell Hole), Pickett's Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, The River Line and Oakland Cemetery, October 9-11, 2008, Marietta, GA with Tommy Barber and Brandon H. Beck (Thursday 7:30 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $325 - includes 2 lunches
  • The Civil War In Kentucky: A Field & Walking Tour of Perryville, Richmond, Munfordville and Frankfort, October 15-18, 2008, Lexington, KY with Charles P. Roland and Christopher L. Kolakowski (Wednesday 7:30 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $495 – includes 3 lunches
  • The Heart of Jackson’s Valley Campaign: A Field Tour, October 18, 2008, Winchester, VA with Gary Ecelbarger (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 - includes lunch
  • Richmond, Then and Now: A Field & Walking Tour of Drewry’s Bluff, Battery Danzler, Beaver Dam Creek, Malvern Hill, Chaffin’s Bluff, Fort Harrison, Fort Brady and sections of old Richmond, October 24-26, 2008, Richmond, VA with Robert E. L. Krick (Friday 8:00 PM-Sunday 12:00 N) $245 - includes Saturday lunch
  • Unseen Gettysburg: Part II: A Halloween Tour and Historical Review of “Ghost Sightings and other Unexplained Phenomena on the Gettysburg Battlefield, October 31, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross (Friday 9:00 AM-4:30 PM) $150 – includes lunch
  
   
November  
  • Gettysburg: Sites Seldom Seen on and around the Battlefield, Part III, November 1, 2008, Gettysburg, PA with Gary Kross (Saturday 8:45 AM-4:30 PM) $150 – includes lunch
  • Ten Days to Independence: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton in the American Revolutionary War, November 7-8, 2008, Princeton, NJ with Jay Jorgensen and William M. Welsch (Friday 7:30 PM-Saturday 5:00 PM) $195 – includes Saturday lunch
  • The Vicksburg Campaign: A Field & Walking Tour - November 12-15, 2008, Vicksburg, MS with Terrence J. Winschel and Dale K. Phillips (Wednesday 8:00 PM-Saturday 4:30 PM) $495 - includes 3 lunches and Friday night dinner)
  
 
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