January 15, 2013 through March of 2014
Boys In Blue: Part III - When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library launched the third phase of its popular “Boys in Blue” exhibit on January 15, 2013 with new pictures and documents that spotlight Civil War prisons and prisoners, immigrant and Jewish soldiers and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
"Boys in Blue: When Will This Cruel War Be Over?" also covers the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg and President Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Where: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

April 2, 2013
Mourning In America: Death in Civil War White Houses
A Talk by Catherine Clinton, A Distinguished Mary Lincoln Historian
Where: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum's Union Theater

April 13, 14 & 15, 2013
One Destiny returns to the Presidential Museum
Where: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - 1:30 p.m.

April 25 & 26, 2013
Foster In The Five Points featuring Larry Kirwan [of the band Black 47]
Larry Kirwan takes the audience back to the world of Stephen Foster, the father of American songwriting, during the summer of 1863.
Where: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum's Union Theater - 7:30 p.m.

May 2, 2013
Chancellorville - A Civil War Sesquicentennial Presentation by Dr. Mark DePue
Where: Union Theater at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - 7:00 p.m.

May 11, 2012 through December 31, 2013
To Kill and to Heal: Weapons and Medicine of the Civil War
Where: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum

May 14, 2013
A Play Reading of Mary & Myra
In 1875, Mary Lincoln was sent to an insane asylum; her friend, Myra Bradwell, arrives to help gain her release by exposing the injustices of her trial as they grapple with their pasts and their own perceptions of freedeom and womanhood.
Where: Union Theater at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - 7:00 p.m. - Purchase Tickets Online

June 11, 2013
Author Jeanne Theoharis presents "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"
Where: Union Theater at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - 6:00 p.m. - Book Signing - 6:30 p.m. Lecture

June 13, 2013
Vicksburg Campaign - A Civil War Sesquicentennial Presentation by Dr. Mark DePue
Where: Union Theater at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - 7:00 p.m.

July 2, 2013
Gettysburg Campaign - A Civil War Sesquicentennial Presentation by Dr. Mark DePue
Where: Union Theater at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - 7:00 p.m.