Fri, May 07
|Central Penn College Conference Center
America’s Burial Ground: The Civil War Origins of Arlington National Cemetery
Author and historian Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein recounts the Civil War origins of Arlington National Cemetery.
Time & Location
May 07, 2027, 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Central Penn College Conference Center, 600 College Hill Rd, Summerdale, PA 17093, USA
About the event
As we prepare to commemorate Memorial Day, please join us on Friday, May 7, as author and historian Dr. Allison S. Finkelstein recounts the Civil War origins of Arlington National Cemetery.
In May of 1864, in the midst of the bloody Overland Campaign, the US Army started to bury the war dead on its occupied land at Arlington Plantation. Prompted out of necessity and begun with no ceremony, that action unintentionally ignited a process that forever changed American military commemoration. In this presentation, Dr. Finkelstein will trace the origins and creation of Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). By contextualizing Arlington’s establishment within the development of the Civil War-era national cemetery system, her remarks will underscore Arlington’s eventual significance to the larger nation, its role in the creation of Memorial Day, and the ways in which the Civil War lives on in American commemorative traditions.
About the speaker: Dr. Finkelstein is a historian,…
Tickets
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Attend the presentation in person or on Zoom. Dinner not included — free to all.
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Dinner + Lecture
Sale ends
Apr 23, 2027, 12:00 PM
Includes the buffet dinner and the presentation. Reservations required by the RSVP deadline.
$35.00
+$0.88 ticket service fee
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