Ohio & the Civil War: 150 Years Later

This traveling exhibit explores Ohio’s participation in the Civil War and focuses especially on individuals’ choices that impacted local communities and the course of the war. Three themes – Democracy, Transformations and Memory – are used to reveal Civil War stories that impacted Ohio in the 19th century to the present day. The exhibit explores topics such as civil rights, political dissent, pacifism, religion and popular culture and reveals patterns in our country’s response to these topics throughout history.