Native Americans in the Nation’s Capitol
2025-06-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC, 20510, United States
Join us for a free three-part program:
First, watch a documentary clip about Navajo Code Talkers from World War II. We will discuss their legacy, including the Congressional Gold Medal recognition many decades later.
Then, examine an 1836 Cherokee petition protesting the New Echota Treaty, which ceded Cherokee land to the U.S. government. Learn more about how the 1st Amendment right to petition has influenced Congress and key political decisions.
Last, take a guided tour of the U.S. Capitol focused on the ways America’s depictions of Indigenous peoples in Capitol art has evolved over time.

Artist Led Exhibition Tour: Living Without the Gods
2025-06-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | South Asia Institute, 1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Join us for an artist-led gallery tour of our first floor solo exhibition “Living Without the Gods” by Chicago-based South Asian American artist Shaurya Kumar.
Kumar is an artist of recollection who immerses himself in memoirs and imagery of history, context and time. His body of work addresses the transposition of artifacts from their original contexts due to the effects of urbanization, colonialism, or time. During the tour, Kumar will discuss each piece in the exhibition and the ideas they explore in detail.

Sublime Narrative of Self Emancipation: An Artist Conversation with Curlee Raven Holton and Dr. Ashley Jordan
2025-06-27 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Join us for an engaging conversation with artist Curlee Raven Holton, Dr. Ashley Jordan (CEO, African American Museum in Philadelphia), and David Brigham (Librarian and CEO, Historical Society of Pennsylvania), as they explore the intersection of art, history, and social justice. Holton serves as the 2025 Artist in Residence at Historical Society of Pennsylvania. His new artist book, The Sublime Narrative of Self Emancipation, draws from HSP’s abolitionist collections and the rich traditions of Black spirituals. This dialogue will highlight the enduring legacy of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Holton’s creative response to archival stories of resistance, resilience, and liberation that continue to shape our understanding of freedom and community today.

Athens Queer Space Tour
2025-06-28 10:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Memorial Hall, 101 Sanford Dr, Athens,, GA, 30601, United States
Celebrate Pride Month with a 2-mile walking tour of Athens’ LGBTQ+ history, led by local guide Rin Gunn. Discover the people, places, and stories that shaped queer life in Athens. Highlights include Memorial Hall, Church Bar, and other community landmarks.
To support Athens Pride & Queer Collective’s ongoing work, $5 from each ticket sold will be donated directly to APQC.
$20 per person. This tour is offered Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, in June.

Oral History Workshop
2025-06-28 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, 1050 Monticello Loop , Charlottesville, VA, 22902, United States
Join historians from Monticello’s Getting Word Project for an educational workshop that explores the practice of oral history – one of the many tools that historians at Monticello use to tell an honest and full history.
Participants will gain practical guidance and tools on how they might engage in oral history in their own communities and families, documenting stories, memories and traditions.

Community Healing: "Making and Mending" - Conversation about Art and Disability
2025-06-28 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | South Asia Institute, 1925 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Join us for a moderated community conversation exploring how artists of South Asia and the diaspora navigate careers at the intersection of art and disability. This event invites participants into a community-building experience that highlights the resilience of artists with disabilities working in creative fields that are often not designed with accessibility in mind. Together, we will engage in critical reflection and discuss how humanities-based institutions can lead the way in fostering more inclusive and accessible spaces.
The conversation will be moderated by Anand Venkatkrishnan, an intellectual historian of South Asian religion and author of Love in the Time of Scholarship: The Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Indian Intellectual History.
Featured speakers include:
Pooja Pittie, a Chicago-based visual artist living with a progressive form of muscular dystrophy, whose work explores the tension between a slowing body and an active, curious mind.
Grishma Shah, a self-taught painter and public health professional whose experience with a physical disability inspires her art and advocacy for disability as a valued identity.
Priya Rama, an Ohio-based artist who channels chronic migraines into vivid, expressive work, encouraging creativity as a response to chronic pain and stress.
ASL interpretation and online participation options will be available. Please register to receive a zoom link morning of the event. Mask-wearing is strongly encouraged in person.
This program is supported by a Healing IL grant from the Field Foundation and Illinois Humanities.

Athens Queer Space Tour
2025-06-29 10:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Memorial Hall, 101 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA, 30601, United States

Slice of History at Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives
2025-07-01 16:30 - 18:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Hawaii Mission Houses Historic Site & Archives, 553 S King St, Honolulu, HI, 96813, United States
What if I told you history could be served with a FREE slice of pizza?
Get ready for A Slice of History, where we bring together food, friends, and the stories that didn’t make it into your textbooks!
Civic Season unites our oldest federal holiday, July 4th, with our newest: June 19th. It’s a time for millions of Americans nationwide to meet up and remember the ideals that each generation has worked to bring to life: freedom, equality, justice, and opportunity. Join us and learn about our past in order to better shape out future!
At Hawaiian Mission Houses we’re celebrating by:
Highlighting the history of the upcoming unofficially holiday of July 31st, Sovereignty Restoration Day (Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea)
Offering a free tour focusing on the role of missionaries in the government of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
A hands on activity that shows you what it’s like to be a historian doing archival research!
Having some PIZZA, of course!

Civil Rights Talk: Mexican American Teachers and Educational Achievement
2025-07-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Join us for a virtual discussion about Mexican American teachers and Mexican American educational achievement between the 1920s and 1940s. What were the learning conditions for Mexican American teachers and students? How did they contest inequity in education? This virtual talk will feature education historians Gonzalo Guzmán, Philis M. Barragán Goetz, and Laura K. Muñoz.
This virtual talk will stream live on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, at 6 PM CT on Facebook at https://bit.ly/FB-MACRI and YouTube at https://bit.ly/YT-MACRI.
RSVP at https://www.somosmacri.org/event-details/macri-talk-mexican-american-teachers-and-educational-achievement to receive a reminder for the talk!

Researching the Revolution: A Portal to Philadelphia's Past
2025-07-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania invites you to drop in on Tuesday, July 2, for Researching the Revolution: A Portal to Philadelphia’s Past.
Explore the Revolutionary City portal, a digital resource that showcases diverse stories of the American Revolution through the eyes of Philadelphia’s early residents. Stop by our archive throughout the day to attend live presentations of the portal by the American Philosophical Society. Plus, create Revolutionary-inspired art and take a behind-the-scenes vault tour of historical documents.
Head to 13th and Locust for a hands-on way to discover Philadelphia’s revolutionary roots and find your place in the story.
This free event is part of Red, White, & Blue To-Do.

Slice of History at Freedom Park
2025-07-03 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | North Carolina Freedom Park, 218 N Wilmington St, Raleigh, NC, 27601, United States
Join us for a tour of Freedom Park and an exclusive look at powerful primary sources at the State Archives and State Library of North Carolina as we explore the enduring struggle for freedom in our state. This event is hosted by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and America 250 NC and part of Civic Season’s ‘Slice of History’ event series organized by History Made by Us and Pizza to the Polls.

Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge
2025-07-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Explore the people, ideas, and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 250 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free, all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours, family activities, talks by historians, living history, Cambridge Open Archives, a Story Walk, and more.
The house at 105 Brattle Street, now Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, served as Washington’s first military headquarters of the American Revolution from July 1775-March 1776. Headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our country. This event will reveal Cambridge Headquarters as a complex hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, self-emancipated families, and soldiers shaped history.

Ancestral Artistry: A Film Documentary
2025-07-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Kimball Theatre, 428 W Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, United States
Produced by the non-profit Louisiana Architecture Foundation (LAF), Ancestral Artistry: The Influence of Africans & Creoles of Color on Louisiana Architecture is a documentary that examines the rich architectural legacy that began 300 years ago with the arrival of enslaved Africans, skilled in the building trades, in French colonial Louisiana. The film focuses on these trades that, over the centuries, have produced the distinctive architectural forms that distinguish Louisiana’s built environments from other parts of the United States.
Often handed down within families through the generations, these construction trades—such as carpentry, masonry, iron smithing, and plaster work—have played a surprisingly large part in the history and culture of Louisiana’s Creoles of Color. The building trades in Louisiana have roots that reach back to both West African soil as well as European; so do the builders themselves. Unique from the majority of America, Louisiana fostered a large population of free, prosperous, mixed-race people. From the early 18th century on, the building trades continuously provided this community of free people of color with significant opportunities for wealth and social advancement—all during an era when precious few doors were open in America for anyone with African ancestors.
But Ancestral Artistry isn’t only about the past. The film weaves the stories and emphasizes the personal work of contemporary master craftsmen in New Orleans, Jeff Poree, Darryl Reeves, and the late Teddy Pierre. Ancestral Artistry shares the men’s hopes to preserve their fragile traditions and train apprentices who will succeed them.
Following the film is a panel discussion with Darryl Reeves, Karina Roca, and Jonn Hankins, with Kenneth Schwarz as moderator.
The Louisiana Architecture Foundation (LAF) works to advance Architecture in Louisiana by serving as a link between the public and the architectural profession. This linkage includes public awareness of architecture, public support for architecture, and public participation in processes that shape the environment. Visit www.louisianaarchitecture.org for more information.
Parking near Merchants Square is recommended. If you plan to park at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center, please check the bus schedule.

Woodland Cemetery Walking Tour: Remembrance and Recovery
2025-07-19 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Woodland Cemetery, 2300 MAGNOLIA RD, Henrico, VA, 23223, United States
This walking tour encompasses the final resting place of African Americans from Richmond, Henrico and surrounding areas. On the tour, we will highlight not only the many influential people who are at rest in Woodland’s sacred grounds but also the ongoing recovery efforts that have occurred in recent years. The tour will cover a large portion of the grounds so please dress accordingly. Information: sch107@henrico.gov

From Colony To Country: Defining Liberty in the Summer of 1775
2025-07-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Watermen’s Museum, 309 Water St, Yorktown, VA, 23690, United States
Step back in time for a Revolutionary drama set in the summer of 1775. Watch as Lewis Burwell of Fairfield visits John Page at Rosewell to ponder weighty decisions. Listen as their wives and people enslaved by the families discuss their options and the impact of the looming storm on them. Join us for this historic event about Gloucester County’s role in the Revolution across the York River. After the play, we will host a Q&A with the actors and staff of Fairfield, showcase exhibits of Rosewell’s history, and enjoy outreach activities.

War Remains, A Virtual Reality Experience
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | National WWI Museum and Memorial, United States
Witness history unfold from a soldier’s point of view in this thought provoking, visceral encounter presented by legendary “Hardcore History” podcaster Dan Carlin. War Remains is an immersive, solitary VR experience that transports one viewer approximately every 15 minutes through the Western Front of the First World War. VR headsets and equipment are thoroughly cleaned and sanitized between users. Due to the graphic nature of the content, viewers must be at least 14 years of age.
Available daily at the museum beginning May 27th through Sept. 6;
spots are limited and require advance reservation.

Common Ground: The Heart of Community
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Japanese American National Museum, United States
Incorporating hundreds of objects, documents, and photographs from JANM’s collection, this exhibition chronicles Japanese American history, beginning in the late 1800s with the early days of the Issei (first generation) pioneers and continuing through the World War II incarceration, post-war resettlement, and the redress movement.
Timed, advance tickets are required. No walk-ins admitted. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (PDT), Friday, Saturday, and Sunday only. Last entry is at 4 p.m.

Biocubes - Exploring Biodiversity
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, United States
A biocube is a fun, informative, and manageable way of exploring the biodiversity in the world around you by focusing on a cubic foot of space. By looking closely and documenting the life in a small area, one can get a better understanding of how different ecosystems are structured and how they function and how they change.

First Person Receives COVID-19 Vaccine
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | New-York Historical Society, United States
On the morning of December 14, 2020, Sandra Lindsay made history. The director of critical care nursing at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Lindsay sat down in front of the media and became the first person in the United States to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. New-York Historical was ready to preserve objects related to that historic moment for generations to come through our History Responds collecting initiative.

Stronger Together: Black Liberation and Asian Solidarity
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Japanese American National Museum, United States
The USC Pacific Asia Museum, the Chinese American Museum, and the Japanese American National Museum presented “Stronger Together: Black Liberation and Asian Solidarity” virtually on November 19, 2020. The discussion covered the historic moment in the movement for Black lives and the importance of cross-movement solidarity and coalitional consciousness. The panelists reflected on the history of Black-Asian solidarity and what we can learn from the past in order to live in a liberated future. The panel also offered thoughts on how we move forward following the much anticipated November 3, 2020 presidential election results.
Collaboration between the Japanese American National Museum, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, and the Chinese American Museum.

They Called Us Enemy: An Intergenerational Conversation on Racial Injustice
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Japanese American National Museum, United States
Join us for this intergenerational conversation on racial injustice and reconciliation surrounding George Takei’s graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy, which tells the story of Takei’s imprisonment in a WWII Japanese American concentration camp. June Berk, a former WWII incarceree and Japanese American National Museum volunteer will be interviewed by Abbi-Hope Jihye Park and Abigail Eun, two Los Angeles-area high school students from the Koreatown Youth and Community Center’s Koreatown Storytelling Program. They will discuss the novel, the many histories that it connects, and its lessons for our futures.
Program was a collaboration between the Japanese American National Museum, Koreatown Youth and Community Center Koreatown Storytelling Program, and the “Book to Action” program of the California Library Association

Walk Through the War: 1865
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | American Civil War Museum, United States
The conflict isn’t over after the the war in 1865. How do Americans reconcile with the weight and cost of the war while trying to reunify the nation and welcome people who have a newfound citizenship?

Try Think! Conversation Series
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Hawai’i Council for the Humanities, United States
These Try Think events are opportunities for small groups of diverse voices to speak and be heard. Each conversation will be led by a thoughtful facilitator, to help to create a space where we feel valued as full people. Each conversation topic is inspired by a Value of Hawaiʻi Hulihia essay, which can be read for free online.

Watch the National Youth Summit on Teen Resistance to Systemic Racism
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, United States
How can young Americans create a more equitable nation? Explore and discuss this question using resources and videos from the 2020 National Youth Summit. The Summit was centered on the case study of Claudette Colvin—a 15-year-old Black student in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus and testified in the legal case that brought an end to segregated busing in Montgomery.

Massacre and Memory Walking Tour
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Revolutionary Spaces, United States
The Massacre and Memory Tour is a half-mile guided walking tour that explores the surprisingly small geography of colonial Boston and its central civic buildings—the Old State House, the Old South Meeting House, and Faneuil Hall—to uncover the roots of the conflict that escalated into a deadly riot, leaving five dead and a country changed.
AVAILABLE BY RESERVATION
$150 per group
1-8 people per tour
48 hour notice required

Stronger Together: Black Liberation and Asian Solidarity
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Japanese American National Museum, United States
In November 19, 2020 The USC Pacific Asia Museum, the Chinese American Museum, and the Japanese American National Museum presented “Stronger Together: Black Liberation and Asian Solidarity” virtually.The discussion covered the historic moment in the movement for Black lives and the importance of cross-movement solidarity and coalitional consciousness. The panelists reflected on the history of Black-Asian solidarity and what we can learn from the past in order to live in a liberated future. The panel also offered thoughts on how we move forward following the much anticipated November 3, 2020 presidential election results.
Collaboration between the Japanese American National Museum, the USC Pacific Asia Museum, and the Chinese American Museum.

Calling all Athletes: Map Your Power
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Citizen University, United States
Calling all athletes and athletes-in-training. You’re stronger than you think! How about flexing your civic muscles by mapping out the access to power that you have?
Citizen University has outlined three strategies that you can use to ensure you’re stepping up: 1) Get literate in power 2) Map where power flows 3) Refine your argument to move to action.

Peaceful transfers of power? Not a guarantee in early America
2099-01-01 00:00 UTC | Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello, United States
Journalists and commentators have invoked historic precedents to contextualize the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. While unprecedented in many ways, those events are also part of a long history of bitter partisanship and political violence in the United States. Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1800 offers an example: the peaceful transfer of power was anything but a foregone conclusion. Historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky discusses historic examples of sedition, violence, and mob action in the early decades of American history.
