“Your name will be handed down”: Clara Barton at the Library of Congress

Michelle Krowl, from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, will highlight some of the documents available online at the LOC about Clara Barton’s life and work in this virtual program.

Join us on Thursday, September 24 at 6:00 PM EST on Facebook Live for a virtual program hosted by the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. You can tune in live by visiting facebook.com/civilwarmed/live at the scheduled time.

Join Michelle Krowl, from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, on Thursday, September 24 at 6:00 PM for a Facebook Live program as she discusses the resources available online at the Library of Congress for the study of Clara Barton. During the program, she will pay particular attention to the materials that document Clara Barton’s Civil War experiences and her work on behalf of missing soldiers and their families – many of which were authored in the Missing Soldiers Office itself.

Michelle A. Krowl is the Civil War and Reconstruction specialist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. She received a B.A. in History from the University of California, Riverside, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several articles and books on topics relating to the Civil War, as well as Quantico, Virginia and the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. She has worked as a library assistant at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., an assistant professor at Northern Virginia Community College, and as a research assistant for historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.

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