Amelia Grabowski
Nerd Nite DC: Civil War Shenanigans
DC9 Nightclub 1940 9th St NW, Washington, DC, United StatesLike nerdy fun, beer, and good company? Join the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and Atlas Obscura for Nerd Nite DC to explore what's wondrous and curious about the Civil War.
Season Premiere: Mercy Street Viewing Party in DC
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesDiscover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
Episode 2: Mercy Street Viewing Party in DC
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesDiscover the history behind the historical drama. Join the Museum staff to watch and discuss the latest episode.
Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin award-winning folksinger Chris Vallillo to explore and enjoy the music that was an integral part to America's long Civil Rights movement.
The Widow Maker
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesLearn how the Pension Office forced women to fight for survival after the Civil War.
Weeping No More
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesSouthern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows. Dr. Brandi Brimmer tells all.
Troubled Refuge
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesExplore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
Washington, D.C.’s ‘Working Girls’
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesStep into Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office for a discussion about Washington, D.C.’s 19th century working women: government clerks, humanitarians, and prostitutes.
The Wound Dresser
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesDiscover 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.
Women Soldiers
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesOver 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. They stood side by side with male soldiers. Learn their stories.