Latest Past Events

Seeking Asylum

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington

Historian Craig Swenson will discuss the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.

Troubled Refuge

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington

Explore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.

Weeping No More

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington

Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows. Dr. Brandi Brimmer tells all.