Civil War buffs (and their family members) rejoice! The Ohio Historical Society is offering a fantastic guided tour of our numerous Civil War collections. This tour is not for the “slightly interested”; but if your bookshelf is full of biographies of Civil War generals, you have a Civil War Trust app on your smartphone, or [...]

The Ohio History Service Corps, an AmeriCorps program administered by the Ohio Historical Society, is up and running for the second year! We are very excited to have another year of this amazing program to support local history efforts including the 150th commemoration of the Civil War in Ohio.
The Ohio Historical Society and its statewide [...]

The Jackson Historical Society and the Lillian Jones Museum are proud to announce they are hosting the Ohio Historical Society’s new traveling exhibit, Ohio and the Civil War: 150 Years Later to commemorate the anniversary of the Civil War.
The exhibit, Ohio & the Civil War: 150 Years Later is on display at the Lillian Jones [...]

On November 7, 1861, Ohioan General Ulysses S. Grant led Union troops in the Battle of Belmont (in Missouri) against the forces of Confederate General Leonidas Polk. According to the Warren Western Reserve Chronicle, “this was one of the hardest fought battles in the West, the total force on the Union side was about 3,500, [...]

On Friday, October 21, the Friends of Freedom Society, Inc., a grassroots, all volunteer, non-profit organization devoted to researching, documenting, and preserving Underground Railroad sites throughout Ohio, met in Sylvania, OH, for its 14th Ohio Underground Railroad Summit entitled, Sylvania: A Final Terminus.  The 2011 summit focused on the impact the Underground Railroad had on [...]