Saturday, January 18 | 1pm – 2:30pm | Instructor: Tom Arliskas | $12 ($15 for non-members) | Register Here Author Tom Arliskas’ workshop will consider how the Federal Army was able to hold the position of the infamous Hornet’s Nest at the center of the Union lines for 6 hours during the first day of the […]
Sunday, February 2 | 1:30pm – 3pm | Presented by Dr. Trevor Steinbach Dr. Trevor Steinbach, President of the Society of Civil War Surgeons, will present a program on the African American surgeons and caregivers who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. His program will introduce the audience to the service of […]
Tuesday, February 4 | 6:00pm-7:30pm | Presenters: Joshua Dubbert and C.W. Goodyear | $12 ($15 non-members) | Register Here Join the Civil War Museum online for an in-depth discussion led by Joshua Dubbert and C.W. Goodyear about Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield and their lives during the Civil War Years. Joshua Dubbert is the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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: […]
Friday, April 11 | 12pm – 1pm | Presented by Nancy Shumm and E. Olivia Darden Author of The Anointed One, Nancy Schumm, and Narrator of the Audiobook, E. Olivia Darden will present Seth Paine and Harriet Tubman in a new light focusing on Seth’s work on the Midwest Underground Railroad, black history, and his collaboration […]
Reception, Dinner and Program with Dr. Joan Waugh | Friday, April 25 | 5pm – 9pm | Civil War Museum | No Registration Fee Join us at the Civil War Museum for a welcome reception and dinner. Public Reception begins at 5:00pm, with a dinner at 6:00pm. Following dinner will be a program by Dr. […]
Friday, May 9 | 12pm – 1pm | Presented by Dr. Kate Williams-McWorter and Dr. Gerald McWorter From a distance, New Philadelphia looked like a typical Illinois pioneer town of the mid-1800s. But New Philadelphia was not a typical pioneer town. As travelers got closer, they would find a small but bustling community where Black […]
Friday, June 13 | 12pm – 1pm | Presented by Michael T. Sullivan Eli, Hannibal, and Sylvester were brothers, farmers, soldiers, and friends from Palmyra, Wisconsin. They were respected for what they did and the American Civil War made them forever friends of the country. While holding the military rank of private, the brothers honorably […]
