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A month-by-month calendar of Civil War shows, battlefield tours, reenactments, seminars, living history programs, and auctions across the United States.
Multiday events appear on every day they run. See August 2026 as a list →
Dates: Aug. 7–9
Emerging Civil War's twelfth annual symposium at Stevenson Ridge, built around the theme "Partnerships and Rivalries."
Dates: Aug. 8–9
The North Georgia Relic Hunters Association's 48th annual show of Civil War relics and antique firearms at the Cobb County Civic Center.
Dates: Aug. 5–12
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Sampson County History Museum in Clinton, NC.
Dates: Aug. 3–8
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Mather Homestead Barn in Darien, CT.
Dates: Aug. 13–23
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Iowa State Fair, East Market Place in Des Moines, IA.
Dates: Aug. 10–17
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Fargo Public Library in Fargo, ND.
Dates: Aug. 8–16
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Fullerton Public Library, Hunt Branch in Fullerton, CA.
Dates: July 27 – Aug. 3
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Wayne County Museum in Goldsboro, NC.
Dates: Aug. 10–17
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Groton Public Library in Groton, CT.
Dates: Aug. 5–13
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Marion Public Library in Marion, OH.
Dates: Aug. 1–11
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Living History Farms in Urbandale, IA.
Dates: Aug. 1–8
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Bonanzaville USA in West Fargo, ND.
Dates: July 29 – Aug. 6
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Whittier Central Library in Whittier, CA.
Dates: July 26 – Jan. 2
The Museum of the American Revolution's travelling exhibition on Washington, the Continental Army, and the citizen-soldier, on show at the Pritzker in Kenosha.
Dates: Aug. 1
Historian Quinton Kirk leads a twelve-stop driving tour of the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, examining troop movements, leadership, and the experience of the soldiers across the three-day…
Dates: Aug. 12–16
Historians Michael C. Harris and Gary Ecelbarger lead this field university on the October 1777 fighting around Philadelphia, with battlefield tours, historic house visits, and off-the-beaten-path…
Dates: Aug. 1
Four artillery demonstrations across the day at Shiloh, firing a 10-pounder Parrott rifle and a 6-pounder field gun.
Dates: July 26 – Sept. 27
A recurring ranger talk at the Bunker Hill Monument, five times a day Wednesday to Sunday through late September.
Dates: Aug. 5
The park's Civil War book group takes up Erik F. Nelson on Second Fredericksburg, Salem Church, and Banks' Ford.
Dates: Aug. 6
A ranger program on Irish soldiers in Union and Confederate service, and the flags they carried.
Dates: July 26 – Sept. 27
A ranger-led walking tour of Revolutionary Boston, Wednesday to Sunday mornings through late September.
Dates: Aug. 8–9
One of Ohio's largest Civil War living history events, with Federal and Confederate camps, battle reenactments, first-person interpretation, and Hale Farm's glassblowing, blacksmithing, and pottery…
Dates: Aug. 8
An evening program on African American soldiers, their families, and the Kentucky communities United States Colored Troops veterans built after the war.
Dates: July 26 – Sept. 24
A half-hour living-history programme at Hartwell Tavern on the men who turned out on 19 April 1775.
Dates: Aug. 2
Ranger David Lassman marks 250 years since Thomas Stone signed the Declaration of Independence, and how Maryland received it.
Dates: Aug. 7–9
Three days of Civil War medical living history at Antietam, with surgical, recruiting-inspection, and mortality demonstrations.
Dates: July 26 – Jan. 3
A major exhibition on the Declaration of Independence and the independence movements it went on to shape.
Dates: Aug. 13–15
The North-South Skirmish Association's annual artillery skirmish at Fort Shenandoah, firing original and reproduction Civil War ordnance.
Dates: Aug. 14–15
The Contemporary Longrifle Association’s annual 350-table sales show, where contemporary artisans sell handmade longrifles, powder horns, knives, and early-American accoutrem
Dates: Aug. 14–21
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Southwest Brunswick Branch Library in Carolina Shores, NC.
Dates: Aug. 18–26
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Covina Teen Center in Covina, CA.
Dates: Aug. 19–23
Historian Kevin Pawlak leads this four-day Civil War Field University program on Lee’s 1862 Maryland Campaign, from Leesburg through Harpers Ferry and South Mountain to Antietam, concluding with…
Dates: Aug. 19
Historian Alexander Cain on Loyalist families, displacement, and exile in the months before independence.
Dates: Aug. 20
Ranger Dr. Tedi Light traces Beaufort's free people of colour through the archival record, the war, and Reconstruction.
Dates: Aug. 20
A program on the United States Colored Troops raised around Washington and the battle flags they carried.
Dates: Aug. 20
Historian Michael Harris on the fighting and military operations along the Delaware River during the Revolution.
Dates: Aug. 21–30
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Portsmouth Historical Society in Portsmouth, RI.
Dates: Aug. 22
A drop-in family program on regimental and signal flags, with a hands-on flag-design activity.
Dates: Aug. 22
Garry Adelman examines the detail buried in Civil War photographs in the museum's Lessons in History series.
Dates: Aug. 22
A presentation on the geographic, international, political, military, and social factors behind American victory.
Dates: Aug. 22–23
Michigan's largest Civil War living history event, held at Cascades Falls Park since the 1980s, with hundreds of reenactors, period camps, and full-scale battle…
Dates: Aug. 22
A storytelling programme including a noon first-person portrayal of Revolutionary War soldier William Jasper.
Dates: Aug. 25–29
The American Numismatic Association’s flagship annual convention, bringing nearly 500 dealer tables, major auction houses, and mints from around the world to Pittsburgh.
Dates: Aug. 25 – Sept. 8
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Scott County Public Library in Georgetown, KY.
Dates: Aug. 26–30
Historian Hal Litchford leads this four-day program on the collapse of Hood’s Tennessee Campaign — Lyon’s Kentucky Raid, both days of the Battle of Nashville, and the Confederate retreat to the…
Dates: Aug. 28 – Sept. 15
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands, CA.
Dates: Aug. 29 – Sept. 5
The American Revolution Experience travelling exhibition on show at Mansfield/Richland County Public Library in Mansfield, OH.
Dates: Aug. 29
A program on Civil War hats, uniforms, rank and identity, with reproduction clothing to try on.
Dates: Aug. 29–30
Carolina Trader Promotions' antique gun and military antiques show in the Scott Building at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
Dates: Aug. 29
Historian Richard Bell on the international dimensions and consequences of the American Revolution.