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.
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.
Visit the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on June 24 and learn more about the Civil War experience of the Pry family. This free talk will begin at 11:30 AM.
Visit the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on July 9 and learn more about the Civil War experience of the Pry family. This free talk will begin at 11:30 AM.
Clara Barton worked tirelessly to help soldiers and their families before and after the American Civil War … but she didn’t do it alone.
Visit the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on June 4 and learn more about the Civil War experience of the Pry family. This free talk will begin at 11:30 AM.
Visit the Pry House Field Hospital Museum on June 10 and learn more about the Civil War experience of the Pry family. This free talk will begin at 11:30 AM.
