Step into Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office for a discussion about Washington, D.C.’s 19th century working women: government clerks, humanitarians, and prostitutes.
Historian Craig Swenson will discuss the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.
Discover the man behind the poetry, as Garrett Peck introduces us to Walt Whitman the poet, the nurse, the brother, the lover, the clerk, the myth, and the man.
Over 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. They stood side by side with male soldiers. Learn their stories.
Watch as a skilled medical historian amputates a (model) leg using Civil War-era surgical tools.
Historian John Lustrea will tell the story of Civil War nurse Clara Jones at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum on January 27 at 11 AM.
Washington's Civil War hospitals played host to a wide range of characters from President Abraham Lincoln to Walt Whitman.
Join us for an exclusive tour of the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum available only to members of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine!
Tour the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum before your romantic night on the town, and discover the boardinghouse where Barton lived and worked!
Hear the war-time story of the Walters family and how Clara Barton and the Missing Soldiers Office helped them find closure.
Join Education Specialist Michael Mahr as he presents the story of Clara Barton and the Pratt Street Riots.
A free reception open to the public to celebrate the release of Clara Barton: Civil War Humanitarian
Join educator, author, and independent historian Carolyn Ivanhoff as she presents her first-person interpretation of Clara Barton at the Missing Soldiers Office.
Jill Newmark discusses her book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons.
Several of the contributing authors for Clara Barton: Civil War Humanitarian will be discussing their research for the book.
Several of the contributing authors to Clara Barton: Civil War Humanitarian will be discussing their research for the book.
Meet historian Jonathan White and hear stories from his new children's book at this kid-friendly event.
