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  • Clara Barton – An American Life

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

    Exploring the incredible life and career of an American icon.

  • Saving Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office

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

    Journey through the discovery, investigation, restoration and interpretation of the boarding house where Clara Barton lived and worked in the 1860s

  • Photograph of the Pension Office, now the National Building Museum, courtesy of the LOC

    Weeping No More

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

    Southern black women artfully navigated the U.S. pension bureaucracy to gain recognition as Union widows.

  • Troubled Refuge

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

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

  • Seeking Asylum

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

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