[ February 6, 2010 to May 16, 2010. ] The Cincinnati Museum Center will host GOLD, an exhibit that “explores the splendor of the world’s most valued mineral.” According to CMC’s Mosaic magazine, the exhibit will allow visitors to “Follow gold from the molten depths of the Earth to glittering examples of jewelry and artifacts, from gold rushes that shaped the world to the [...]

On April 15, only days after the bombardment of union occupied Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for seventy-five thousand state militiamen to serve for 90 days. Ohio was expected to enlist thirteen regiments of one thousand men each. Two of the regiments were to be sent directly to Washington for defense of [...]