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  • Last Seen: Searching for Missing Loved Ones after the Civil War

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

    Last Seen: Searching for Missing Loved Ones after the Civil War - Professor Judith Giesberg In this talk, professor Judith Giesberg from Villanova University will discuss her new book, Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People for their Lost Families, that follows ten freed people searching for the loved ones […]

    Free with Museum Admission

  • How Civil War Medicine Killed President James Garfield

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

    When an assassin’s bullet struck James Garfield in July 1881, the battle to save the president’s life began. In the weeks that followed, doctors argued over how to treat the stricken executive. In the end, Dr. D. Willard Bliss, a former Civil War surgeon, took control of Garfield’s recovery and controversy has […]

    free with museum admission

  • “All the Elements of Sublimity and Terror”: Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War

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

    “All the Elements of Sublimity and Terror”: Veterans and the Psychological Impact of War - Stephen A. Goldman, M.D., LFACLP, DLFAPA       War has existed almost since the dawn of civilization, with its horrors the subject of poems, novels, histories, and memoirs for centuries, and movies since cinema began. At the same […]

    Free with museum admission

  • Brown Bag Lunch Speaker Series: Dr. Charles Leale and the Medical Treatment of Abraham Lincoln

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

    Please bring your lunch and enjoy a 30 minute lecture at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum! Dr. Charles Leale and the Medical Treatment of Abraham Lincoln Surgeon General Joseph Barnes witnessed Abraham Lincoln's autopsy on April 15th, 1865, recalling, "There it lay upon the white china, a little black mass […]

    $5

  • Battle-Tempered: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of War

    Monocacy National Battlefield Visitor's Center 5201 Urbana Pike, Frederick, MD, United States

    Battle-Tempered: The Physical and Psychological Consequences of War Join the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and partner organizations for a unique one-day conference. 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Monocacy National Battlefield “Character, Warrior Identity, and Moral Leadership: Union Colonel Charles Gilpin at Monocacy and in Peace” Stephen A. Goldman, MD 9:30 […]

    Free