In The Classroom
Other Educational Materials
The Catoctin Center for Regional Studies publishes a regional history magazine, Catoctin History. Over the years, a number of articles on Civil War topics have appeared in various issues. They are included here for use in the classroom.
Catoctin History Issue #1 (Fall 2002)
James M. McPherson, “The Saratoga That Wasn’t: The Impact of Antietam Abroad” Click here
Paul A. Shackel, “The John Brown Fort: Memory in Black and White” Click here
Jeannine A. Disviscour, “Remembering Antietam: John Philemon Smith’s Shadowbox” Click here
Ted Alexander, “Antietam on Canvas: The Battle Art of James Hope” Click here
Catoctin History Issue #2 (Spring 2003)
Carol Reardon, “’All Roads Lead to Gettysburg’: Pickett’s Charge, History, and Memory”. Click here
Catoctin History Issue #3 (Fall 2003)
Edie Wallace, “Marking Time: Civil War Graffiti in the Catoctin Region” Click here
Brian Baracz, “A Place in Time – Antietam 1862” Click here
Melinda Marsden, “‘Rise Superior to the Passions of the Hour’: A Civil War Broadside” Click here
Catoctin History Issue #4 (Spring/Summer 2004)
Timothy J. Reese, “Crampton’s Gap; ‘Aperture to Antietam’” Click here
Catoctin History Tour “Crampton’s Gap Battlefield,” by Timothy J. Reese Click here
Catoctin History Issue #5 (Spring/Summer 2005)
Angela R. Commito, “After the Storm” Click here
Amanda M. Myers, “A Gift for General Lee” Click here
Catoctin History Issue #6 (Fall 2005)
Susan Trail, “Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation: The Creation of Antietam National Cemetery” Click here
Dean Herrin, “Robert E. Lee’s ‘Peace Letter’” Click here
Catoctin History Tour “‘Bivouac of the Dead’: Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Maryland” Click here
Catoctin History Issue #8 (Fall/Winter 2006)
Jenna Gianni, “John Steuart Curry and The Tragic Prelude” Click here
Rusty Monhollon, “The Life and Legend of John Brown” Click here
Kenneth Pitts, “Christmas in Blue and Gray: Keeping the Yuletide in Civil War Camps” Click here
Kenneth Pitts, “Collect the Entire Set!” Click here
Catoctin History Tour “Chambersburg to Charles Town: The John Brown Trail,” by Anna Pritt Click here
Catoctin History Issue #9 (Fall/Winter 2007)
G. Thomas Legore, “‘Corbit’s Charge’: The Battle of Westminster” Click here
David Nathanson, “Antietam Reunion” Click here
Catoctin History Tour “‘Corbit’s Charge’ Tour,” by G. Thomas Legore Click here
Catoctin History Issue #10 (Spring/Summer 2008)
James A. Davis, “A War of Manners: Jeb Stuart’s ‘Sabers and Roses’ Ball” Click here
Mimi Ashcraft and Ned Landis, “Mary Shellman’s Veterans: Finding the Forgotten” Click here
Catoctin History Issue #11 (2009)
Edie Wallace, “The Dignity of Free Men: The Story of Tolson’s Chapel in Sharpsburg” Click here
Timothy R. Snyder, “Securing the Potomac: Colonel Charles P. Stone and the Rockville Expedition, June-July 1861” Click here
David S. Lovelace, “John Brown’s Raid, Edward Shriver, and the Frederick Militia” Click here
Ariel Burriss, “Of Worms and Weevils: Hard Living on Hardtack Click here
Catoctin History Tour “‘And They Did Save It’: The Monuments of Monocacy,” by Hannah Grant and Dean Herrin Click here
