[ March 12, 2011; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Join the Columbus Surgical Society for a presentation by Peter D’Onogrio entitled “Medical Advances in the Civil War.” The Civil War was the first modern war and resulted in the highest number of U.S. casualties per capita of any of our wars as approximately 620,000 men perished, including 360,000 in the North and 260,000 in [...]

[ June 17, 2011; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Join the Alliance Area Retired Teachers Association for a presentation by James Bissland entitled, “The War Nobody Knows.” More books have been published about the American Civil War than any other event in our history, but we know far less about it than we could. The Civil War saved what we call the “American Dream,” [...]

[ September 21, 2010; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Dr. David Bush, Professor of Anthropology at Heidelberg University and member of the Ohio Civil War 150 Speakers Corps, will talk about his archaeological research on Johnson’s Island and its Civil War Military Prison.   From April 1862 through September 1865, more than 10,000 Confederate soldiers spent time in Johnson’s Island Civil [...]

In order to provide Ohio communities with some of the best Civil War presenters in the state, the Ohio Humanities Council and the Ohio Historical Society have collaborated to create the Ohio Civil War 150 Speakers Corps. Together, OHC and OHS hope to provide and support the best possible scholarship and educational resources pertaining to [...]