Friday, April 14 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Linda Stevens Before Google, there was real research – places you had to go, things you had to do, confirmations you had to get, to work to what really happened and describe it accurately. One journalist decides to write a novel about the Shakers (those most […]
Tuesday, April 18 | 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Presented by Dr. Shannon Sloan-Spice Presented in conjunction with the Kenosha Public Library’s Big Read Program. During this powerful first-person performance, the audience meets Ms. Caroline Quarlls thirty-eight years after she successfully liberated herself from slavery by traveling from St. Louis to Canada via the Underground Railroad. […]
Saturday, April 22 | 1:00pm – 3:30pm | Presented by: Dr. Mark Noll and Reverend Robert Miller At this afternoon seminar, presentations by Dr. Mark Noll and Rev. Robert Miller explore the religious and biblical themes present in the Civil War. Each scholar will present on different topics relating to the role religion played in […]
Friday, May 12 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Gene Eric Salecker With the capture of Vicksburg in July 1863, the Bluff City became a Union citadel within the Confederacy, accessible only via the Mississippi River. Turned into a major Union supply base, Vicksburg was the main starting point for a number of Union expeditions […]
Friday, June 2 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Presented by: Pat and Dylan Brennan Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor magazine, has teamed up with his technology-astute daughter Dylan Brennan to bring the largest Civil War battle to life in the remarkable 2-volume study: Gettysburg […]
Friday, June 9 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Mr. Dick Zimmermann A new book, More Than Just Grit: Civil War Leadership, Logistics and Teamwork in the West, 1862, has entered the collection of Civil War titles describing the war in its second and crucial year. More evenly matched on battlefields with the South than at […]
Friday, July 7 | 6:30pm – 8:00pm | Speaker: Cassandra Griffen, Photojournalist Cassandra Griffen’s program will showcase her images of the foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement who, though largely unknown to the nation, served as integral parts of Reverend Fred Lee Shuttlesworth’s determination to undo Jim Crow laws in the South. These images will […]
Friday, July 14 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Calvin Watts, Academic Advisor, UW-Parkside Only two years old when Fort Sumter was fired upon, Theodore Roosevelt would spend the rest of his life reckoning with, and trying to live up to, the legacy of the Civil War generation. Acutely aware of the sacrifices made by those […]
Friday, August 11 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Rob Girardi Camp Douglas, located on the south side of Chicago, was Illinois’ largest Civil War training camp. More than 40,000 Union volunteers mustered here. In February 1862, the camp was converted to accommodate Confederate prisoners of war. About 24,000 Confederates were held there during the […]
Friday, September 8 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Al Ottens To Civil War buffs, General John Rawlins is usually regarded as the scold that kept Ulysses Grant sober. But the complex motivations behind Rawlins’s temperance interventions are not well known. Nor are the rare communication skills Rawlins possessed that significantly impacted his relationship with […]
Saturday, September 23 | 9:30am - 4:00pm | $64 ($80 non-members) Register Here Check-in starts at 8:30am, program begins at 9:30am. Schedule of Presentations Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg | Presented by Dr. Tim Smith, University of Tennessee-Martin Through all the long months of operations against Vicksburg, Champion Hill stands as the most decisive […]
Friday, October 13 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Carl Smith The Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871 which destroyed the heart of the country’s rising inland metropolis and left a third of its population homeless, is one of history’s great disasters. If anything, the city’s rapid recovery was even more remarkable, revealing both […]
