The Mid Maryland Performing Arts Center's Dance FX presents an original dance inspired by Clara Barton's service and sacrifices
Join Atlas Obscura as they get into the Halloween spirit and turn Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office into an impromptu operating theater.
Tour Clara Barton's boarding house home and office with the man who saved it.
Clara Barton believed everyone should be able to get an education: male or female, black or white, rich or poor. Over 150 years later, Teaching for Change continues that fight.
Bellwether Bayou and Slim Rosa will fill the Missing Soldiers Office with song at this special concert.
Discover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
Discover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
Join award-winning folksinger Chris Vallillo to explore and enjoy the music that was an integral part to America's long Civil Rights movement.
Learn how the Pension Office forced women to fight for survival after the Civil War.
Journey through the discovery, investigation, restoration and interpretation of the boarding house where Clara Barton lived and worked in the 1860s.
Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows. Dr. Brandi Brimmer tells all.
Explore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
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.
