Visiting Scholars Banquet 2026

Please join the ALBG in welcoming Dr. Scott Hancock as our Visiting Scholar for 2026. 

The topic of Dr. Hancock’s program will be “Black Gettysburg and the Coming of the American Civil War”.  

Friday April 17th, 2026 at the Dobbin House Tavern

Your $35 ticket includes the lecture and buffet in the Dobbin House ballroom.  Cash bar opens at 5:30, dinner served at 6:30 with the scholar’s presentation following dinner.

Scott Hancock is an associate professor of history and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College. After spending 14 years working with teenagers in crisis, he switched careers and earned a Ph.D. in Early American History in 1999. Both careers fuel his desire to understand how African Americans have shaped and been shaped by American law and memory, and motivate him to tell the stories of people whom society and history have discounted as troublesome or unimportant. He is currently exploring how places like the Gettysburg battlefield can put African Americans and slavery back into the heart of stories told by landscapes and memorials. Some of his scholarly work has appeared in scholarly journals and anthologies, such as The Civil War and the Summer of 2020, They Are Dead and Yet Live, and his book Walk Up The Hill: A College Student’s Guide to Scholar Activism. As part of trying to be a scholar activist, he has also written for public audiences in local, regional and national publications, and welcomes engaging with people in a variety of forums, including talking with visitors to the Gettysburg battlefield.

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