Events
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Troubled Refuge
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesExplore what contraband camps were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united to forge a new version of citizenship.
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Washington, D.C.’s ‘Working Girls’
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesStep into Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office for a discussion about D.C.’s 19th century working women: from government clerks to prostitutes.
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Seeking Asylum
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesHistorian Craig Swenson will discuss the turbulent process of securing medical care for mentally ill African Americans after the Civil War.
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Memorial Day Weekend
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesAs we commemorate Memorial Day weekend, tour the Missing Soldiers Office.
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Independence Day
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesCelebrate the 4th of July by celebrating the men and women that helped shape this nation through service and sacrifice.
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Clara Barton’s Associates
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesClara Barton worked tirelessly to help soldiers and their families before and after the American Civil War … but she didn’t do it alone.
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Women Soldiers
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, 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.
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Cut It Off! A Halloween Amputation Demonstration
Watch as a skilled medical historian amputates a (model) leg using Civil War-era surgical tools.
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A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesJoin 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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Clara Jones: A Forgotten Civil War Nurse
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesDiscover the story of Clara Jones whose remarkable war-time experiences included assisting the wounded on a hospital ship, in Alexandria, and at Gettysburg between work as a full-time teacher.
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Section 27: Separated at Death in Arlington
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesUncover the history of Arlington National Cemetery's historic Section 27 and what it tells us about race and healthcare during the 19th century.
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Special Exhibition – “War On Our Doorsteps”
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum 437 7th Street NW, Washington, United StatesRelive the exhibition of Alexander Gardner's photographs taken on Antietam battlefield in September 1862 at the Missing Soldiers Office in 2018.
