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.
