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***** 2025 *****

Richmond, Virginia, February 21-22, 2025
American Civil War Museum 2025 Symposium: On the Battlefield
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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, February 15, 2025
36th Annual Ohio Regimental Military Ball to be held at the Sheraton Suites, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
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Fredericksburg, Virginia, March 15, 2025
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust's Second Annual Spring Seminar -- The Road to Fredericksburg
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Winchester, Virginia, April 3-5, 2025
The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation Conference -- Focus on the summer of 1864
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Carnegie, Pennsylvania, April 11-12, 2025
Andrew Caregie Free Library & Music Hall annual Civil War Symposium -- Our Battle Flags Were Tattered ... The Maryland Campaign: A Civil War Symposium
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Winchester, Virginia, April 26, 2025
The McCormick Civil War Institute Spring Conference -- "Glimpses into those Lurid Interiors of the Period" Fighting, Writing, and Refighting the Civil War
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Georgetown, Ohio, April 24-27, 2025
Grant Days 2025
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Mansfield, Ohio. May 3-4, 2025
The Ohio Civil War Show & Artillery Show will be held at the Richland County Fairgrounds.
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Burton, Ohio. May 24-25, 2025
A Civil War Encampment at Century Village
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 13-18, 2025
The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College 2025 Summer Conference
The Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College would like to offer the members of the Kent Civil War Society a 15% discount to attend the CWI summer conference June 13-18, 2025. Click here for conference information. Pick up discount information at a Kent Civil War Society meeting or email us at info@kentcivilwar.org

Mansfield, Ohio. June 14-15, 2025
Richland Early American Center for History -- Civil War Living History Days at South Park
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Smithville, Ohio. June 14, 2025
Civil War encampment at Mishler Mill
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Amherst, Ohio. June 13-14, 2025
Military History Preservation Group -- The Taste of History: An all eras look at the life of the average soldier through food
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San Antonio, Texas. July 25-27, 2025
The Society for Women and the Civil War 25th Annual Conference -- (More information to be announced in January, 2025)
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Spotsylvania, Virginia, August 1-3, 2025
The Eleventh Annual Emerging Civil War Symposium at Stevenson Ridge -- The Cities of War
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Bath/Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio. August 9-10, 2025
A Civil War Re-enactment at Hale Farm and Village.
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Zoar, Ohio. September 20-21, 2025
Civil War re-enactment
(Note: this event is held every other year)
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Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 12-14, 2025
Central Virginia Battlefields Trust's 2025 Annual Conference -- Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse
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North Bloomfield, Ohio, October 10-11, 2025
Center Brook Manor Civil War encampment
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Roundtables and Program Series

Kent Civil War Society (Kent)
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - Mark Laubacher presenting Dr. George B. Todd: Medical Officer on Land, River, Sea. For information on meetings, see https://kentcivilwar.org

Stark County Civil War Roundtable (Greentown)
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - Bertram Floyd will present African-American Civil War, From Auction Block to Glory 1779 - 1870. Experience the laws, rhymes, politics, heroes, family life, soldier battles and the United States Constitution. Meeting at 7:00pm, United Methodist Church, 3088 State Street NW, Greentown, Ohio. Non-member meeting fee $4. For information, see https://www.facebook.com/groups/134738730458716

--> Wayne County Civil War Roundtable (Wooster)
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - Carolyn Becker Caskey will present Mother Bikerdyke. . Meeting at 6:30pm, Wayne County Historical Society Schoolhouse, 546 E. Bowman St., Wooster Ohio. For information, see https://waynehistoricalohio.org

--> The Civil War Round Table of Central Louisiana is live broadcasting the presentations at its meetings on Facebook Live. Registration is not required. For upcoming events, see https://www.facebook.com/cwrtofcenla/

The Civil War Roundtable Congress is presenting an online lecture series. Registration is required. For a list of upcoming lectures and more information, see https://www.cwrtcongress.org/events.html .

The Blue & Gray Education Society presents a number of tours each year, along with funding projects related to educating the public about the Civil War. For information on the organization's current tour schedule and projects, follow the links on https://blueandgrayeducation.org .

The Civil War Talk Radio is a weekly, hour long, internet-based talk radio show hosted by Gerry Prokopowicz of East Carolina University. Each week, Gerry interviews leading historians, authors, enthusiasts, etc. on all things Civil War related. For more information, see the supporting web site at https://www.impedimentsofwar.org .

The American Battlefield Trust presents information on a variety of topics and in a variety of formats in conjunction with its efforts to preserve battlefields and related sites from the Civil War, Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Explore what the trust has to offer at https://www.battlefields.org .

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine presents a series of live and recorded events on Facebook. For upcoming events, see https://www.facebook.com/CivilWarMed/events/ . Earlier presentations are available on their Videos page.

Publishers & Publications

CIVIL WAR BOOKS and AUTHORS is an independent, non-fiction Civil War book review journal, with news, commentary, interviews, and more.

CIVIL WAR LIBRARY, provider of free original Union and Confederate Books, Manuscripts and Photographs

For publishers with a significant Civil War catalog, see the following...
Savas Beatie
Casemate
The University of North Caroline Press
McFarland
Mercer University Press
West Virginia Book Company
Heritage Books
Little Miami Books

Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation by Bennett Parten. January 21, 2025, Simon & Schuster

A groundbreaking account of Sherman's March to the Sea - the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy - told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman's march into the biggest liberation event in American history.

Games

The American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC) has been formed to play American Civil War computer games. Membership is required. For more information, go to http://wargame.ch/wc/acw/.

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