Happy Women’s History Month! Throughout March, the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum will highlight multiple notable women from the Civil War era. Join us for Women’s History Wednesdays! It is already the last Wednesday in March! Our third and final post this month will discuss Clara Barton herself. If you have […]

Happy Women’s History Month! Throughout March, the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum will highlight a notable woman from the Civil War era each week. Join us for Women’s History Wednesdays! Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) “There was both power and sweetness in that great warm soul and that vigorous frame.” –Author Harriet Beecher […]

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Louisa May Alcott, 1857 Modern Americans remember Miss Alcott primarily as the author of the novel Little Women. Published in 1868, Little Women follows the lives of the four March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on the home front while their father serves as a chaplain during […]

As 2014 draws to a close, many of us are home enjoying the comfort and relaxation of the holiday season. However, not everyone has the opportunity to enjoy these luxuries. Let us be mindful of the men and women who are away from their families this holiday season. Let us also look […]

The celebration of Thanksgiving is an integral and unifying component of American culture. Thanksgiving Day, as we know it in 2014, did not become a national holiday until the Civil War. President Lincoln & Sarah J. Hale On November 29, 1860, the newly-elected Abraham Lincoln shared an unofficial Thanksgiving celebration with his […]

Hello everybody! There are exciting updates at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office (CBMSO) Museum in Washington, DC. New Staff & Volunteers The CBMSO would like to welcome new staff members to the Museum. Emily Peikin transitioned from a summer internship at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine (NMCWM) to become […]

A question that has come up in our tours and amongst our staff as of late has been one of location, location, location: How did Clara Barton, a native of Massachusetts and a schoolteacher in New Jersey, become a U.S. Patent Office clerk in Washington D.C.? It seemed like a bit of […]

The Mad Hatter by Lewis Carroll(Wikimedia Commons) Most of us are familiar with the often nonsensical, flamboyantly dressed Mad Hatter from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Most of us are also, no doubt familiar with the expression “mad as a hatter.” Now this expression is not based upon Lewis’s tea drinking, top […]