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Second Friday Lecture: “What Did Lincoln Know About Science, and Did It Matter?”

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Friday, February 14  |  12pm – 1pm  |  Presented by Dr. James M. Cornelius James M. Cornelius, Ph.D., the curator of the Lincoln Presidential Library from 2007-2018, has been working on this topic for more than a decade and given two preliminary public talks on the subject.  It begins from the well-known surprise that Abraham […]

Event Series SPARK!

SPARK! Victorian Etiquette

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Friday, February 21  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm  SPARK! participants will learn proper Victorian manners while attending a Victorian-themed tea party.

Civil War Museum Media Club: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Tuesday, February 25  |  6:30pm – 7:30pm  |  Instructor: Doug Dammann  |  $8 ($10 for non-members)  |  Register Here Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter – a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, inflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies […]

Wisconsin Walks Into a Bar

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Friday, March 7  |  6:00pm – 7:00pm  |  $16 ($20 for non-members)  |  Instructor: Dr. Karl Brown  |  21+ only  |  Register Here Wisconsin and beer go way back. In this talk, we’ll focus on Wisconsin’s role in three key episodes in brewing history – the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Prohibition, and the rise of the […]

Second Friday Lecture: Wildfire, Miss Clampitt, and the Wonder Girl from the West: Early Women Sculptors of Abraham Lincoln

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Friday, March 14  |  12pm – 1pm  |  Presented by Mr. Dave Wiegers  In the middle of the 19th century, women were not generally a force in American sculpture. Art, and especially sculpture, were a male-centric occupation. Three women sculpted images of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s and 1870s, and each has an interesting story. […]

Event Series SPARK!

SPARK! Kindness in a Cup of Coffee

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Friday, March 21  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm  No single item of food or drink meant as much to Civil War soldiers.  They talked about coffee, wrote about coffee, and dreamed about coffee.  This SPARK! program describes the different methods Civil War soldiers obtained, brewed and shared their coffee and how these actions sometimes brought them […]

Event Series SPARK!

SPARK!

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

This monthly program engages participants in lively conversations, storytelling, object handling, and other multi-sensory activities that relate. Space is limited so reservations are appreciated. For more information or to register, please call 262-653-4432 or send an email to spark@kenosha.org Kindness in a Cup of Coffee Friday, March 21  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm  No single item of […]

“Too Much for Human Endurance”: The George Spangler Farm Hospitals and the Battle of Gettysburg

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Saturday, March 22  |  1pm – 2pm  |  Presented by Ron Kirkwood The blood stains are gone, but the worn floorboards remain. The doctors, nurses, and patients who toiled and suffered and ached for home at the Army of the Potomac’s XI Corps hospital at the George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg have long since departed. […]

Shipwrecks in Kenosha Harbor

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Saturday, April 5  |  1:30pm – 2:30pm  |  Presented by Brendon Baillod This program is being held in conjunction withy the Kenosha County Archaeological Society Brendon Baillod is an award-winning maritime historian based in Madison, Wisconsin.  He is the current president of the Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association and the author of Fathoms Deep But Not Forgotten: […]

Workshop: Beginning Genealogy

Civil War Museum 5400 1st Ave, Kenosha, WI, United States

Sunday, April 6  |  1:30pm – 3:30pm  |  $20 ($25 for non-members)  |  Instructor: Jean Hoffmann  |  Register Here At this workshop, attendees will learn the basics of family history research. What’s the difference between genealogy, ancestry, and lineage? What does first cousin once removed mean? We’ll discuss the answers to these and other questions, as […]

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