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Second Friday Lecture: Fit for Duty: The Veteran Reserve Corps in the Civil War and Reconstruction

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

Friday, December 8  |  12:00pm – 1:00pm  |  Speaker: Dr. Steven Goldman Described by the Indiana Adjutant General “as unusual a fighting force as the United States ever armed and equipped for action,” the dreadfully-named, preposterously uniformed Invalid Corps came into existence in April 1863, and within a year became the Veteran Reserve Corps (VRC). […]

Event Series SPARK! Program

SPARK! Candy House

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

Friday, December 15  |  2:00pm - 3:30pm  | Free, but registration required Bring your creativity to make a Holiday-inspired house of out graham crackers and candy. Email spark@kenosha.org to register.

Kindness Week in the Resource Center

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

Kindness Week in the Resource Center January 12 – January 14  |  12:00pm – 5:00pm   January 17 – January 20  |  12:00pm – 5:00pm   During Kindness week the Resource Center will participate in Kindness Week by inviting visitors to make Thank You cards for local veterans. All supplies needed to make cards will be supplied […]

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Workshop: Coffee and the Civil War

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

Saturday, January 13  |  10:00am – 11:30am |  Doug Dammann and Steve Acker  |  Register Here No single item of food or drink meant as much to Civil War soldiers as coffee.  They talked about it, wrote about it, and dreamed about it.  Based on first hand Civil War accounts, this workshop explores the different methods […]

Kindness Week in the Resource Center

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

Kindness Week in the Resource Center January 12 – January 14  |  12:00pm – 5:00pm   January 17 – January 20  |  12:00pm – 5:00pm   During Kindness week the Resource Center will participate in Kindness Week by inviting visitors to make Thank You cards for local veterans. All supplies needed to make cards will be supplied […]

Virtual Workshop: I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign

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

Wednesday, January 17  |  6:30pm  |  Presenter: Scott Hartwig  |  $12 ($15 non-members)  |  Register Here Scott Hartwig’s I Dread the Thought of the Place, on the Battle of Antietam and its aftermath, was published in August 2023.  He said of his book, “I did not set out to write this book because Antietam was forgotten, or […]

Event Series SPARK! Program

SPARK! It’s Cold Out There

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

Friday, January 19  |  2:00pm – 3:30pm At this SPARK! session, our group will explore the items that Civil War soldiers used to survive the cold weather. 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 […]

Civil War Museum’s Media Club: Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade Running and the Slave Trade by Jonathan White

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

Tuesday, January 30  |  6:30pm  |  Presenter: Doug Dammann  |  $8 ($10 non-members)  |  Register Here We will meet at the Civil War Museum Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, […]

Event Series Sensory Friendly Days

Sensory Friendly Day

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

Sensory Friendly Days are designed to provide visitors of all ages with complex developmental disabilities, sensory sensitivities, or on the autism spectrum with a safe, comfortable environment to explore the museum exhibits during special early-morning hours before the museum opens to the general public. Where possible, our lights will be dimmed and the sound turned […]

The Gettysburg Address: The Speech That Inspired a World

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

Sunday, February 4  |  1:00pm  |  Speaker: Dr. Carla Knorowski  |  Free The Gettysburg Address is one of the greatest, if not the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president. Abraham Lincoln delivered his address to a weary, battle-worn nation at the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. The address set our nation on the course […]

Workshop: American Artillery

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

Tuesday, February 6  |  6:30pm  |  Presenter: Mr. Dick Zimmermann  |  $16 ($20 non-member)  |  Register Here Dick Zimmerman’s workshop will give participants an introduction to the history of American artillery usage from colonial times through the Civil War with an emphasis on 1861-1865. The various types of guns employed, including foreign models, different types of […]

Second Friday Lecture Series: Grant and the Verdict of History

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

Friday, February 9  |  12:00pm – 1:00pm  |  Speaker: Frank P. Varney Speaker will be live-streamed at the Civil War Museum Ulysses S. Grant has long been viewed as one of the finest generals in American history, the man who won the Civil War. To a point that is true; but he did not win […]

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