Our nation’s Civil War battle flags may not survive due to state budget cuts. The Ohio Historical Society has over 400 Civil War battle flags but the government has not provided funding for their preservation in nearly a decade. Other states such as New York, Indiana and Pennsylvania are facing budget cuts which will severely [...]

[ December 12, 2009; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. December 13, 2009; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Christmas in the Village, featuring “Home for the Holidays,” a Civil War Christmas.

December 12 and 13, 2009. Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 1pm-5pm. Enjoy the Heritage Village in all its Christmas Splendor.

Visit with both Union and Confederate Civil War Soldiers as they make their way home for the holidays, as they would have in 1862. Sample old [...]

Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Jim Webb (D-VA) have introduced the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act of 2009 (S.1838) to establish a Commission to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War from 2011-2015. The legislation authorizes $3.5 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to award grants for activities relating [...]

[ October 14, 2009; ] A small group of historians are convening in Columbus to craft an interpretive framework to outline the story of Ohio and the Civil War. This framework will be added to the website for public review and comment before it is finalized, and it will guide much of the work of the sesquicentennial. The individuals who [...]

On April 27, 2009, Ohio Governor Strickland released a Governor’s Directive (PDF) establishing the state’s effort to commemorate the Civil War sesquicentennial.   To read an article about the Directive, go to the Ohio Historical Society’s Histore-news.