2024

• Our Flag Was Still There: Tom McMillan

• First Stop on the Journey to Freedom: Jessica Cyders

• Frederick Douglas' Travel in Ohio, 1843 --1856: Robert Wallace

• Benjamin Fearing Historical Marker Dedication 

• Juneteenth Freedom Day 

• History in the Park (Click here for photos)

• First Stop on the New Journey to Freedom: Scott Britton

• Rufus Dawes Historical Marker Dedication (Click here for photos)

• Field Trip to Virginia Battlefields 

• Ohioans and West Virginians at the Second Battle of Winchester, June 1863: Scott Mingus

​

2023

• General Moses: Stories from the Life of Harriet Tubman: Ilene Evans, M.A.

• Texas Terror: Revolution and Secession in the Lone Star State: Brian Schoen

• Lincoln's Navy: The Men, Ships and Organization, 1861-1865: Donald L. Canney

• Civil War Quilts, Meta Van Nostran, M.A., author, retired

• Charlotte Scott Historical Marker Dedication (Marcia E. Cole "A Marker for Charlotte Scott" YouTube Video)

• Unthinkable Outcomes from the Battle of Port Royal: The Impact of the Civil War on the South Carolina Low Country and Introduction to the Gullah Geechee, Victoria Smalls

 

2022

• The Trouble With Monuments: Wes Clarke

• Armistead and Hancock: Behind the Gettysburg Legend of Two Friends at the Turning Point of the Civil War, Tom McMillan

• George Armstrong Custer at Gettysburg, Dave Finney

• Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia, Eric Wittenberg

• The Lincoln Assassination Trial, Kevin Ritter

• Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command, Kent Masterson Brown

• The Seventh West Virginia Infantry: An Embattled Union Regiment from the Civil War’s Most Divided State, David Mellott

​

2021

• But Not For My Children: The Holland Brothers' Unlikely Journey from Slavery, Scott Britton

• Ohio Women in the Civil War Home Front, Kelly Mezurek, author, lecturer, and Professor of American History at Walsh University

• The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. Brian Schoen, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University

• Behind Enemy Lines: Harriet Tubman in the Civil War - The Port Royal Experiment Ilene Evans, Davis WV, dancer, historian, teacher, storyteller, and creator of General Moses: Stories from the Life of Harriet Tubman, will tell us about one of her favorite subjects. 

• The Underground Railroad in Southeast Ohio, Peter N. Cultice, an attorney and historian from Zanesville, Ohio

• "Music and Narrative of the Civil War", Steve Ball, Columbus OH, musician and storyteller.

 

2020

• A Mouldering in the Grave: John Brown's Raid and the Abolitionists' Cause on the Eve of the Civil War, Brian Schoen, Assistant Professor of History, Ohio University

​

​

2019

• Gettysburg Hero: The Life of Marietta's Rufus R. Dawes, Scott A. Britton

• Ohio at The Battle of Shiloh, Dan Hinton

• Women's Clothing in the Civil War, Jessica Cyders

• Lee Versus Everyone Else and Then Grant, Jeffrey W. Danner, M.A.

• Black Men in Blue: The Civil War, Ohio, and U.S. Colored Troops, Kelly Selby, Ph.D.

• Touched By Conflict: Southeast Ohio in the Civil War, Larry Strayer, J.D.

​

2018

• Women of Gettysburg:  Their Experiences from Written Legacies, Jane Ellen Young, M.S.

• Morgan's Great Raid: Taking the War to the North, David Mowery

• The Last Fourteen Days of Father Abraham, Robert Burgler, M.A.

• The Bermuda Hundred Campaign, George L. Fickett

• Ohio and West Virginia Troops at Petersburg, Edward Alexander

• Soldier Fraternization Throughout the American Civil War, Lauren K. Thompson, Ph.D.

​

2017

• The Anaconda Plan and the Civil War on the Water, Gary Johnson, P.E.

• Opdycke's Tigers at Chickamauga, Larry Strayer, J.D.

• John C. Breckenridge, U.S. Vice-President, Confederate General and Secretary of War, Larry Emerson

• Decapitating the Union: The Confederate Plot to Assassinate Lincoln, John C. Fazio, J.D.

• The Controversial History of the Confederate Flag, Jeffrey W. Danner, M.A.

• Washington County Generals in the Civil War, Scott A. Britton

​

2016

• Emancipation Proclamation, Peter N. Cultice, J.D.

• Give Them Rocks: Stonewall Jackson's Stand at Second Manassas, Dan Welch, M.A.

• A Personal Conversation with Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Doug Riley

• Civil War Leader from Parkersburg's Julia-Ann Square Historic District, Katherine L. Brown, Ph. D.

• Soldier of Courage, Solider of Compassion: The Story of Capt. Bennet K. Munger, Brian S. Kesterson, M.A.

• Pathway to Freedom: Foundation for the Abolitionist Movement, Bill Reynolds

 

2015

• Intrepid Mariners: U.S.S.Kearsarge v. C.S.S. Alabama, John C. Fazio, J.D.

• Courage, Honor, Love in the Civil War: Rufus R. Dawes and Mary Gates Dawes, Steven R. Magnusen, P.E.

• Ku Klux Klan: From Nathan Bedford Forest to Ohio's Klan in the 1920s, William Trollinger, Ph.D.

• Mother Bickerdyke, Carolyn Caskey

​