Events at the Clara Barton Museum

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

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.

Washington, D.C.’s ‘Working Girls’

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

Step into Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office for a discussion about D.C.’s 19th century working women: from government clerks to prostitutes.

$20

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.

Memorial Day Weekend

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

As we commemorate Memorial Day weekend, tour the Missing Soldiers Office.

Independence Day

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

Celebrate the 4th of July by celebrating the men and women that helped shape this nation through service and sacrifice.

Clara Barton’s Associates

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

Clara Barton worked tirelessly to help soldiers and their families before and after the American Civil War … but she didn’t do it alone.

Women Soldiers

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

Over 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. They stood side by side with male soldiers. Learn their stories.

A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time

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

Join us at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office on Thursday, December 14 at 6 PM as author Paula Tarnapol Whitacre discusses her research into the Civil War experiences of Julia Wilbur.

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