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Dates: July 25–26
American Digger® Civil War & Artifact…
Dates: July 25–26
The Missouri Valley Arms Collectors Association’s 55th National Summer Arms Show, a major Midwest gathering of antique arms collectors and…
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. 7–9
Emerging Civil War's twelfth annual symposium at Stevenson Ridge, built around the theme "Partnerships and Rivalries."
Dates: Aug. 7–9
Annual symposium themed "Partnerships & Rivalries," with keynote speakers Harold Holzer on the dueling print images of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Craig Symonds on Admirals Farragut and…
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. 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. 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. 13–15
The North-South Skirmish Association's annual artillery skirmish at Fort Shenandoah, firing original and reproduction Civil War ordnance.
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. 22
Garry Adelman examines the detail buried in Civil War photographs in the museum's Lessons in History series.
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. 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. 29–30
Carolina Trader Promotions' antique gun and military antiques show in the Scott Building at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
Dates: Sept. 5–6
Labor Day weekend living history event with hundreds of reenactors, Union and Confederate camps, the civilian town of "Reedsburg," and two battles daily in Huntington Central…
Dates: Sept. 9–13
Historians Rob Orrison and Mark Maloy trace the Revolution’s opening from the streets and wharves of Boston through Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, with visits to founding-era historic…
Dates: Sept. 15–17
Morphy Auctions' three-day Firearms & Militaria sale at its Denver, Pennsylvania gallery, regularly including Civil War arms and militaria.
Dates: Sept. 17–20
The Ohio Valley Military Society's MAX Show at the York Expo Center, a four-day militaria and antique arms gathering.
Dates: Sept. 18
The National Civil War Museum's annual fundraising gala, with caterers, trivia, reenactors, a silent auction, and a cannon-firing raffle.
Dates: Sept. 18–20
Annual encampment and living history weekend with Union and Confederate camps, demonstrations, and battle scenarios by one of the Pacific Northwest's longest-running reenacting…
Dates: Sept. 19–20
Central Florida gun show hosted by the Lakeland Rifle & Pistol Club at the Sun ’n Fun Expo…
Dates: Sept. 19
Zurko's Midwest Promotions' one-day Chicago-area show of Civil War artifacts, collector arms, cavalry swords, autographs, and currency.
Dates: Sept. 19
A day of focused living-history programming at Pamplin Historical Park on faith and religion in the armies and on the home front.
Dates: Sept. 26
Antique arms and military history show of about 50 tables hosted by the New England Antique Arms Society. Pre-1898 antique arms are the focus; no modern…