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Topic Archives:Museums

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Gettysburg Had a Lasting Impact on Its Least Known Participants — Its Civilians

by Melissa A. Winn2/21/20242/21/2024

Travel along the famous sites of Gettysburg, from the Cashtown Inn to Lee’s headquarters, from the eyes of the locals.

Texas Civil War Museum

Texas Civil War Museum to Remain Open

by Donald L. Barnhart Jr.11/20/202311/20/2023
Painting of a Indian burial mound excavated in 1850 near the Mississippi River, varied in height and dimension. They were typically erected in layers over several hundred years.

Thomas Jefferson, Grave Digger

by Rick Britton10/3/202311/9/2023

New Army Museum Exhibit Tells the Story of Hero Working Dogs

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher9/25/20239/27/2023
Photo of a general view of The Boott Cotton Mill Museum in the former textile manufacturing town of Lowell on the Merrimack River as part of the Lowell National Historical Park and the National Park Service on November 5, 2014 in Lowell, Massachuetts.

Young Women Were America’s First Industrial Workforce

by Carl Zebrowski9/19/20238/1/2023
Danny Michael

What’s It Like to Curate a World-Class Firearms Museum?

by Johnny D. Boggs8/14/20238/14/2023
Texas Civil War Museum

The Texas Civil War Museum Lowers Its Flag

by Donald L. Barnhart Jr.7/24/20237/20/2023
Photo of The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The Small Pennsylvania Town Where the US Oil Industry Started

by Heidi Campbell-Shoaf6/13/20236/13/2023
Painting, The Mount House, by William Sidney Mount.

The Racially Diverse Paintings of a 19th-Century American Artist

by Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller6/9/20236/9/2023
Photo of a Colonial Revival kitchen that was created in 1930 and sponsored by Oklahoma at the DAR museum.

What Does Home Mean?

by Melissa A. Winn6/6/20236/7/2023

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