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|  Civil War 150 HistoryMobile and Legacy Project honored by American Association for State and Local History
Virginia Civil War 150 Commission
May 23, 2013 - 9:46 am | Back to Top
The Civil War 150 HistoryMobile and the Legacy Project document digitization program have been recognized with 2013 Leadership in History Awards of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH). The Leadership in History Awards program is the one of the nation's most prestigious competitions for recognition of achievement in state and local history. This is a tremendous honor - deepest thanks are to all who participate in, as well as those who work on, CW150 projects.
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|  Civil War 150 Legacy Project Comes to Lynchburg
WSET - ABC13
May 6, 2013 - 8:55 am | Back to Top
Legacy Project archivists visited Historic Sandusky, scanning materials related to the Civil War era. One of the great 'finds' was the diary of a former slave who escaped and joined the Union Navy
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|  Museum puts Civil War on wheels
Richmond Times-Dispatch
January 21, 2013 - 4:55 pm | Back to Top
The Virginia Civil War 150 HistoryMobile will be parked all week--January 21-25, 2013--next to the Virginia Capitol. The interactive museum-on-wheels is open to the public and admission is free.
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|  2013 Signature Conference - Registration now open
Virginia Civil War 150 Commission
November 1, 2012 - 3:28 pm | Back to Top
Register now for the 2013 Signature Conference, "The American Civil War at Home." The fifth in a highly-acclaimed annual series, the day-long program will be held on Saturday, April 20 at the College of William and Mary. The keynote speaker is Eric Foner, and conference co-chairs are Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff. Join us!
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|  Register now for Emancipation Proclamation 150th anniversary program
Virginia Civil War 150 Commission
August 8, 2012 - 1:19 pm | Back to Top
Special program: Friday, September 21 at University of Mary Washington. Join the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars as they gather to interpret, evaluate, and remember the Emancipation Proclamation at its 150th anniversary. The program is free of charge, but registration is required.
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|  Stafford Civil War park to open in fall
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
August 7, 2012 - 5:37 pm | Back to Top
Civil War soldiers in Union blue transformed the Stafford County landscape nearly 150 years ago during their yearlong stay--cutting trees and roads and setting up vast camps, a harbor and fortifications.
This week, troops in Army green were at work at a 41-acre site where some of their Civil War counterparts once stayed.
Due largely to those efforts, the area's newest Civil War park could open as early as this fall on the rolling swath of woodland off Mount Hope Church Road.
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|  Walk In Their Footsteps
Virginia Civil War 150 Commission
July 31, 2012 - 1:47 pm | Back to Top
Walk in Their Footsteps - an online resource that identfies every regiment that fought in Civil War battles in Virginia and helps you develop a "Battle Plan" to follow their service.
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|  Virginia Civil War 150 Marketplace
Virginia Civil War 150 Commission
July 2, 2012 - 1:57 pm | Back to Top
Available for purchase: DVDs and books from the Signature Conference series and an Emmy-nominated documentary, "Virginia in the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance." More merchandise will be added soon, so keep an eye out.
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|  Annex On the Appomattox
Wall Street Journal
June 27, 2012 - 3:42 pm | Back to Top
The knock on Appomattox has long been that there's really nothing here except the McLean House, where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865—and that's a re-creation put together by the National Park Service in the 1940s.
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|  Sesquicentennial Summer 2012
National Park Service
June 27, 2012 - 12:21 pm | Back to Top
One hundred and fifty years ago this very spring, the eyes of the world were on Richmond. In May and June 1862, more than 200,000 Americans fought to decide the future of the United States.
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|  Civil War Trails markers come to Abingdon
SWVA Today
May 2, 2012 - 1:24 pm | Back to Top
Two Civil War Trails interpretive markers are unveiled in Abingdon highlighting two people who played important roles in the history of the town: Landon Boyd and Capt. James Wyatt. The markers were funded in part by a grant from the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission and Virginia Tourism Corporation.
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|  Now available! DVD sets of the 2012 Signature Conference at VMI, "Leadership and Generalship in the Civil War"
April 30, 2012 - 6:46 pm | Back to Top
Order your copy today! A two-DVD set of the complete proceedings of the 2012 Signature Conference, including presentations by James I. Robertson, Jr., Gary Gallagher, Josiah Bunting, Robert Krick, Mark Neely, Carol Reardon, William Cooper, Jeffry Wert, and Peter Cozzens.
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|  Richmond region presents 60 days of events for Civil War 150th
Richmond Times-Dispatch
April 15, 2012 - 10:55 am | Back to Top
Civil War battles within earshot of Richmond 150 years ago changed the course of the war and its ultimate aim over the course of 60 days. Commemoration of that campaign this spring may put Richmond on the map in a more significant way for visitors interested in what happened "on this date. In this place. At this time."
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|  Symposium just one of many spring Civil War history happenings in Lexington
Shenandoah Valley Productions, LLC
March 11, 2012 - 1:00 pm | Back to Top
March is a busy month for heritage tourism in Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia. A CW 150 Legacy Project workshop was held earlier this month for people with Civil War-era diaries, letters, maps and other historic documents. They brought in their items in to be scanned and eventually added to a state archive being compiled by the Library of Virginia. A 2012 Signature Conference, “Leadership and Generalship of the Civil War,” is the next big local event, at Virginia Military Institute on March 22.
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| Story of Civil War Traveling On Wheels
Fredericksburg.com
January 24, 2012 - 8:16 am | Back to Top
RICHMOND—Civil War history, for a change, seems to be going over well with the diverse sample of humanity who pour through the former Confederate capital each day.
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