[ April 29, 2010; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] The 1st Ohio Light Artillery Battery A, a group of Civil War reenactors, will provide an honor guard for a replica of Lincoln’s casket from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. This will take place on the site where the slain President lay in state in the Ohio Statehouse Rotunda on April 29, 1865.

A special exhibit [...]

Oberlin College was the first college to admit women and, in 1835, was the first college to admit African American students. While some southern states were outlawing teaching African Americans to read and write, Oberlin College was graduating both male and female black students with bachelor’s degrees. One such student to graduate from Oberlin College [...]

Though much of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written in Brunswick, Maine, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s inspiration came from listening to stories told by fugitve slaves escaping via the Underground Railroad while living in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1850 her husband, Calvin Stowe, accepted a position at Bowdoin College and relocated to Maine. It would be the passage [...]

In 1856, Lincoln declared himself a member of the newly established Republican Party. Lincoln’s old party, the Whig Party, had collapsed in the early 1850s. Lincoln acquired a national reputation in 1858. In that year, Lincoln was the Illinois Republican Party’s candidate for the United States Senate. The Democratic Party nominated the incumbent senator, Stephen [...]

The Battle of Shiloh occurred on April 6 and 7, 1862, at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston attacked a Union army under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant, hoping to repel the Northern advance.
In the previous few months, the Union military had won several victories in Kentucky and [...]