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2026
50 Civil War events in August 2026 — shows, battlefield tours, reenactments, seminars, and auctions across the United States.
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.