The Civil War was won, and the American Republic was saved because of the remarkable contributions of men, supplies, and leaders provided by the states of the Great Lakes region. […]
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of […]
Friday, May 1 | 12pm – 1pm | Presented by: Jeff Kluver On September 29, 1864, fourteen Black men earned the Medal of Honor for their actions at the Battle […]
Saturday, May 2 | 10am – 4pm Sunday, May 3 | 12pm – 4pm Join the Civil War Museum and the 17th Corps Field Hospital for a weekend of interactive […]
Saturday, May 2 | 10am – 4pm Sunday, May 3 | 12pm – 4pm Join the Civil War Museum and the 17th Corps Field Hospital for a weekend of interactive […]
Friday, May 8 | 12pm-1pm | Presented by: Dan Freas “Camp newspapers are a feature of the war that is worth attention,” reported a St. Louis newspaper in 1862. “The […]
Friday, June 12 | 12pm – 1pm | Presented by: Patrick Brennan The third and final entry of this groundbreaking trilogy examines the battlefield’s transformation from post-battle Hell to American […]
From the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton–a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself […]
This family-friendly book club meeting will take place in the Civil War Museum Resource Center, followed by a craft! It is a dark and snowy night when the Magic Tree […]
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble […]
In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for […]
When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History depicting the scuba and underwater archaeology group Diving With a Purpose, it […]
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