Civil War Programs and Publications

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Civil War Programs

Fall 2011 - The Filson Civil War Field Institute

August, 2011 - Teachers as Scholars (TAS): "The Divided Heartland: Teaching the Civil War in the Ohio Valley"

June 2-4, 2011 - The Filson Civil War Field Institute - Cumberland Gap and the Confederacy's Corridor to the North - Cumberland Gap and Richmond, KY

June 7, 2011 - J. Roderick Heller III, Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest

June 14, 2011 - Kent Masterson Brown, One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry

March 23, 2011 - Roger Billings, Abraham Lincoln, Esq.: The Legal Career of America's Greatest President

March 29, 2011 - W. Stephen McBride, "Camp Nelson, Civil War Emancipation Center for Kentucky"

February 15, 2011 - Alicestyne Turley, "Kentucky African Americans and the Civil War"

February 28, 2011 - Filson Round Table Book Discussion Led by A. Glenn Crothers - Albert E. Castel, Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864

January 21, 2011 - Berry Craig, Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War

December 1, 2010 - Filson Round Table Book Discussion Led by A. Glenn Crothers - Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

November 15, 2010 - The Gertrude Polk Brown Lecture - Gary W. Gallagher, "The Confederate Nation: Waging a War and Dealing with Defeat"

November 19, 2010 - Thomas D. Mays, Cumberland Blood: Champ Ferguson's Civil War

October 14 - 16, 2010 - The Filson Civil War Field Institute - Destiny or Disaster: Hood's Tennessee Campaign of 1864 - Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville, TN

October 21 - 23, 2010 - The Filson Institute Academic Conference - Secessions: From the American Revolution to Civil War

September 16, 2010 - Joseph R. Reinhart, A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stangel, 9th Ohio Infantry

Civil War Publications

Ohio Valley History 11 (Spring 2011) - Andrea S. Watkins, "A Visit with the Past: Kentucky Civil War Historic Sites."

Ohio Valley History 11 (Spring 2011) - C. T. Ambrose, M.D., "Transylvania Medical Alumni Who Served in the Union and Confederate Armies."

Ohio Valley History 10 (Winter 2010) - Michael Riesenberg, "Cincinnati's Civil War Resources: Preparing for the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Civil War," 46-65.

Ohio Valley History 10 (Spring 2010) - Christopher Britten, "'Cooped Up and Powerless When My Home is Invaded': Southern Prisoners at Johnson's Island in their Own Words," 53-72.

Kevin Barksdale, Manisha Sinha, and A. Glenn Crothers, eds., Secessions: From the American Revolution to the Civil War (Columbus: Ohio University Press, forthcoming).

Coming Soon: Website Section - "The Civil War and Lincoln's Kentucky"