The Center for the Study of the Civil War, in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, is a Civil War research center at Shepherd University. The center hosts the university's Civil War and 19th-century America concentrated track of studies. Courses in the concentration cover the American Civil War, 1850–1865; the Reconstruction Era; African-American History; Soldiers and Society, 1861–65; and the Old South. Students are expected to conduct primary research within the topic area, and to become an intern at one of various historic sites in the region, such as Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.