Artwork created by youth, for youth, Resistance At Home is the culminating exhibition of artwork created by YouthCAN artists meditating on meanings of home and collective struggle. Explore identity and culture through art with the limited time exhibit at Wing Luke Museum. With a wide lens, Resistance at Home seeks to uncover the ways in which […]
The Chinese rail workers were vital to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad and more than 10,000 Chinese men were hired to build a railroad over the difficult terrain of the Sierra Nevada. Explore the history of the difficult and dangerous work these men completed, as well as the discrimination and racism the Chinese faced […]
Be they witch or warlock? Only you can find clues to the truth. Step into the museum’s historic seven-sided barn as 17th century investigators tasked with discovering the evidence that could prove the innocence of an accused witch. Your group of up to ten people have one hour until the trial when the alleged witch will have […]
Signs of the Times is an exhibition about the history of protest in North Carolina—about the people who protest, the wide array of issues they debate, and the way they shape society. The artifacts and images illustrate how protests occur over time, the many forms and expressions they take, and the lasting legacies of these […]
What if an African child in 1756 had Instagram when he was enslaved? Equiano.stories reimagines the historic childhood saga of Olaudah Equiano. The epic story is captured as a self-recorded, first-person account, within the format of Instagram Stories, using video, still images, and text. Equiano.stories presents the early life of one of the most dynamic figures in history, […]
Step back in time to learn about 13 major events in Washington, DC's unique political history and how geography and politics determine who enjoys the rights of U.S. citizenship, and who remains disenfranchised. Best accessed using Chrome browser.
It's time for History on Tap at Hi-Wire Brewing! Come celebrate Kentucky Statehood Day and the kick off of Civic Season with your local history organizations, the Filson Historical Society and Liberty Hall Historic Site! The Commonwealth of Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the 15th state on June 1, 1792. Grab a pint […]
Every year, Monticello's West Portico becomes an outdoor courtroom where dozens of individuals take the Oath of Citizenship to become Americans. This ceremony is marked by music from the Charlottesville Municipal Band and the Old Line Fife and Drum Corps. After the ceremony, visitors enjoy root beer floats and children's activities on the West Lawn.
Kickoff Civic Season and explore the Black experience in Iowa’s history! June 10 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m.All activities included with General Admission Gain a better understanding of the legacy and hope of emancipation and explore the Black experience in Iowa from early farmsteads through the fight for civil rights. Presentations & Activities 9:15 a.m.— Welcome/Reading […]
As part of the monthly series "How El Paso Works", this month we are exploring El Paso's Police Department and comparing it to the services available 150 years ago in El Paso. Spoilers: Joseph Magoffin played a part. This is an interactive event with a guest speaker and question-and-answer opportunities. When Joseph Magoffin helped write […]
Join us at Jamestown Settlement on Wednesday, June 14, for a thought-provoking evening of history and performance exploring the precarious nature of freedom from 17th-century Jamestown to Juneteenth. Although Juneteenth springs from events that happened in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, the event celebrates liberation from a system of slavery with origins in Jamestown, […]
June is an important month in Black history: It’s when we celebrate both Juneteenth (June 19) and Black Music Month! Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Learn about a local connection to Clara Brown, a pioneer and formerly enslaved person, through a musical presented by Mama Lisa and Fundisha Enterprises. Take […]
Join us for a riveting nine-generation family migration story from Texas to Missouri. Vanessa Slaughter, a native St. Louisan, will join Jim Vincent of the St. Louis African American History & Genealogy Society in a fireside chat to trace her family’s legacy to Galveston, Texas, in the 1860s. Each generation builds on the foundation of […]
Happy Juneteenth! To commemorate the holiday, we’ll learn about past and present freedom jubilees through a book reading. Possible books to be read include: "Juneteenth for Mazie," "Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem," and "The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States." Throughout the month of June, MHS will be welcoming […]
What was Washington, D.C., like for President Lincoln and some of the people he met and knew here? Explore his assassination at Ford’s Theatre and consider President Lincoln’s legacy. Appropriate for anyone who wants to learn about the story of Ford’s, the world of Civil War Washington and the assassination of President Lincoln. Advance registration […]
The York County History Center invites you to explore the foundations of Colonial government when you visit the Colonial Complex. This property showcases life in the Colonial Period with a focus on Pennsylvania's Founding, the Second Continental Congress, and General Horatio Gates. Tours of the Colonial Complex are offered Tuesday-Saturday at 11 am, 1 pm, […]
From Saturday, June 17 - Monday, June 19, 2023, join the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia to celebrate Juneteenth and explore the continuing struggle for equality for all. At the Museum, visitors can explore the special exhibition "Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia," which examines the life and legacy of free Black […]
Celebrate Juneteenth—the annual holiday commemorating the end of legal slavery in the United States—with family-friendly art-making and activities in the Boeing Learning Center. Come see the official handwritten General Order No. 3 and learn about Arlington’s Freedman’s Village with educators from the National Archives Museum and Arlington National Cemetery. All ages are welcome! This program […]
Join us for a special screening featuring two genealogical researchers as they discuss what sparked their passion for genealogy, the methods they use, and the work and companies they've created as a result. Dennis Richmond Jr. has written books and articles and is a frequent public speaker about his experience; his day job is teaching […]
Share your story, connect with members of your community, and enjoy some survey-inspired trivia provided by the team behind America's Voice Project at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. Civic Season is a new tradition to discover U.S. history – and your role in it – between Juneteenth and July 4th, […]
This session focuses on the civic superpower Amplify. Whether through voice, song, or the arts, amplifiers use their creativity to inspire civic participation. As a journalist and educator, Chicagoan Ida B. Wells-Barnett is the ultimate amplifier! Join us to learn how she inspired action to address the social justice issues of her time in the […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
Join us for a live patriotic music concert from the American Legion Band! This musical revue pays tribute to our nation's flag, which was adopted by Congress on June 14, 1777. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation officially establishing June 14 as Flag Day.
The festivities start at 9 AM when the John and Joyce Caddell Sculpture Garden gates open to a Second Line-style processional parade accompanied by Jonathan Michael and the G.W. Carver High School band and flag team. Visitors are invited and encouraged to join the processional and can pick up flags and noisemakers at the gates […]
Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center is hosting a civics-themed photo contest. Open to high schoolers and undergraduates (who will compete in separate categories), it seeks to inspire Western Pennsylvanians to reflect upon the state of their civic community or the nature of their democracy. Photos taken in any of Western Pennsylvania's 26 counties that in some […]
Join Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City and the Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group for an author discussion of the new book, The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois & WWI. Hope, betrayal, disillusionment and transformation. W.E.B. Du Bois encouraged African Americans to join the Allied cause in WWI, but after-the-fact became haunted […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
The Celebrate! series, appropriate for family audiences and children ages 5 and up, highlights America’s rich cultural diversity through the arts. This program is tied directly to President and Mrs. Kennedy's concern for and support of the arts and culture in a democratic society. Thanks to generous support from the Martin Richard Foundation and the […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
Approximately 10 million civilians worldwide were displaced from their homes during WWI. Today, tens of thousands of refugees seek asylum in the United States annually, with about 500 resettling in Kansas City each year. Join us in conversation with Afghan journalist Qasim Rahimi, Afghan army general Momin Marofi and U.S. Army Major (ret.) Mike Brettman […]
Join us for a garden party celebrating the new Rose Park Women’s Mural! We’ll have music, food, and speakers honoring women who have shaped Salt Lake’s westside communities. The mural was commissioned by Utah women's history nonprofit Better Days and completed by local artist Bill Louis, who grew up in the Glendale neighborhood. He based […]
In honor of Pride, join the Intrepid Museum for a conversation on the contributions and experiences of LGBTQ service members and military family members, particularly in the face of discrimination. Veterans and family members will share stories of resilience, struggle and activism in the past and present. Learn about the evolution of the military’s policies […]
Hear from Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri, author of Alexandra Petri’s US History. This witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years is the fake textbook you never knew you needed! This side-splitting work of historical humor shows why Petri has been hailed as a “genius,” a “national treasure,” and “one of the funniest writers […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
Join Award-winning Journalist Soledad O’Brien in conversation with Congressman Maxwell Frost (FL-10), the only Gen Z member of Congress. The program will focus on the roles young people can play in civic life, and how citizens can engage with the political system from advocating to get a pothole fixed to voting to running for Congress. […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
Join our "People Passage Place: Stories of the Ohio Valley" exhibit team for an intimate and exploratory gallery viewing experience. This exhibit has been separated into three thematic sections to explore multifaceted perspectives on our region: Land Labor Water, People Family Community, and Culture Creativity Craft. Participants will meet with a curator between 1:30 and […]
In its heyday, the Up Stairs Lounge was an egalitarian gay space that functioned, in many ways, as a forerunner to modern queer safe havens. From October 1970 to June 1973, the bar toasted Black as well as white gay customers in an era of brazen racial discrimination on nearby Bourbon Street. We will gather […]
Taps, a musical piece sounded at dusk and at funerals, has a rich and storied history in the United States. It has long been associated with the U.S. Military, and is often played at civilian events around the country. The National WWI Museum and Memorial presents the ninth annual Taps at the Tower each evening […]
Enjoy a live concert celebrating Black Music Month and 83 years of the Legend Singers’ continuous performance and preservation of African American folk music. The celebration will travel the Soul Train, honoring Black musicians and their music, from early slave songs to present day pop and hip-hop. Presented by Wells Fargo
The Carpenters' Company and the National Liberty Museum are collaborating to present the artist led workshop, From Zine to Screen! From stone tablets to the printing press to TikTok, communications technology has played a key role in sharing beliefs and catalyzing movements. Join artist Lane Speidel, whose work is featured in the new exhibition Data […]
Step into the shoes of President George Washington, his cabinet, foreign diplomats, members of Congress, Native American leaders, and the press. Players will be faced with domestic and international crises during George Washington’s second term as president and will work together to decide on a course of action. New information is received in real-time, […]
Few social groups have made such rapid strides in equality as the LGBTQ community during the fifty years following the Stonewall uprising. Leading up to and beyond that seminal moment, D.C.’s own courageous men and women made invaluable contributions to the cultural and social history of the nation's capital: Walt Whitman celebrated “the love of […]
MEET THE ARTIST & GUEST CURATOR Join us at The Weitzman for a tour led by Jonathan Horowitz of this powerful exhibition and explore the dialogue created between the works of contemporary art and the themes, ideas, and events in the Museum’s core exhibition. Tours have limited capacity to enhance the visitor experience. The Future […]
The Heinz History Center and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will welcome new U.S. citizens during a special Naturalization Ceremony. Families and guests will watch as young immigrants become American citizens as part of this pivotal milestone in the naturalization process. The Naturalization Ceremony is open to the public.
You'll never see the neighborhood the same way again. Have a bite and learn a bit about the people who walked Walnut Hills before you, such as: Horace Sudduth, the wealthiest Black Cincinnatian of his generation, Lucy Stone, who shocked 1800s society by refusing to change her name after marriage, Frank Robinson, Reds' 1956 Rookie […]
Join the Arkansas Travelers Youth Foundation, Engage Arkansas, and the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum at Dickey Stephens Park on June 29th for a Civic Season celebration. Throughout the ballgame, there will be fun games and fabulous prizes plus you'll learn about the Arkansas Civic Challenge and how to connect to your community through the […]
Memes—images that spread quickly through large groups—are a central part of internet culture. Not only have they have been instrumental in the rise of social media, they also have had a major influence on American political discourse. According to leading media expert Dr. Joan Donovan, memes mirror the behavior of flags and broadsides of the […]
Join the Museum of the American Revolution in historic Philadelphia for a Fourth of July Weekend celebration with special activities, costumed interpretation, and crafts for all ages to discover the American Revolution and its ongoing relevance. Explore what freedom means to you throughout the weekend as you enjoy a heart-pounding drumline performance, contribute to a […]
Join the Bill of Rights Institute for a virtual civics fair honoring the winners of the 2023 MyImpact Challenge civic engagement contest! Students from across the country entered their service projects, and now it is time to celebrate our ten winners – including the student(s) who took home our $10,000 Grand Prize! Come learn about […]
Enjoy an evening of family fun and fireworks along with patriotic music to celebrate our nation's founding on June 30th and July 1st! Relax and enjoy a patriotic evening that includes dazzling fireworks and musical performances. See the Mansion lit in red, white and blue during the fireworks show; walk down to visit the Washington […]
Enjoy an evening of family fun and fireworks along with patriotic music to celebrate our nation's founding. Relax and enjoy a patriotic evening that includes dazzling fireworks and musical performances. Walk down to visit the Washington Tomb for special wreath-layings, revel in the sounds of the 18th century with performances by the talented Fifes & […]
Celebrate and remember America's historical fights for freedom through various re-enactments. Some of these include exploring the American Revolution, boarding the recreated 1920s tour boat Carillon, receiving guided military history tours through historic gardens, and watching cannon demonstrations as they perform patriotic music.
Join us for an on-stage discussion related to the book, National Treasure Hunt: One Step Short of Crazy, featuring co-authors Aubrey Paris and Emily Black. The book program will be followed by a screening of National Treasure (2004).
Learn about fascinating stories of Pittsburgh history and enhance your museum experience on a Guided Tour at the Heinz History Center. Museum docents will lead a special tour of Pittsburgh: A Tradition of Innovation and Clash of Empires exhibitions to discuss George Washington’s Pittsburgh and Western Pa. connections.