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Watergate at the National Portrait Gallery

ExhibitMarch 25, 2022665Views 0Likes 1Comment

This new exhibition "Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue" reminds us that it's always the cover-up that gets you. A political crime was committed at the Watergate. The President's aides tried to cover it up. It brought down the President of the United States of America. Fifty years later, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery opens this show…

"Discovery and Revelation" exhibition at American History

“Discovery and Revelation” at American History

MuseumsMarch 21, 2022289Views 0Likes 0Comments

Are science and religion at war?

Remembering the Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

MemorialsFebruary 15, 2022560Views 0Likes 0Comments

Arlington National Cemetery contains thousands of unidentified graves. The most famous of which is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, visited by millions every year. But just behind the tomb and its amphitheater you can find another memorial to obscure soldiers- those of the U.S.S. Maine. On this day in 1898, the battleship exploded off…

A Visit with the Gutenberg Press at Museum of the Bible

MuseumsFebruary 14, 2022343Views 0Likes 1Comment

Inky fingers and a gifted mind changed the world. Not through a financial success, but a spiritual one. A culture changing force.

Three Top Places To Visit for July 4th

EventsJune 30, 2019282Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's no better place to visit on the celebration of our country's birth than Washington DC. There are so many artifacts and exhibits here, how do you decide which to visit? Here are our top three picks for your holiday visit to DC. 1. The Declaration of Independence at the National Archives. This document started…

International Spy Museum Reopens

MuseumsMay 11, 2019507Views 0Likes 0Comments

The International Spy Museum is an all new experience. Its dramatic new building in a new section of town is just the first sign of change. The International Spy Museum With a larger space and new emphasis on science and technologies it is substantially different than the previous iteration that focused almost purely on human intelligence…

Monuments Men Diary Donated to the National Archives

EventsMay 2, 2019229Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Monuments Men Foundation donated the diary of S. Lane Faison, Jr. to the National Archives this week. This continues the piecemeal reconstruction of records related to the immense theft of art in Europe by the Nazi during WWII. Now 74 years after the meticulous kept Nazi records fell in Allied hands, the records are…

Cherokee Days at the American Indian Museum

Events, MuseumsApril 12, 2019341Views 0Likes 0Comments

When you meet him, Vyrl Keeter introduces himself as a retired educator but after watching his passion as a Cherokee Nation culture keeper, you'd be right to wonder if he's ever really left education behind. This weekend at the National Museum of the American Indian, you'll find him sitting just off the atrium, the clack…

“Votes For Women” Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery

MuseumsApril 5, 2019255Views 0Likes 0Comments

At 6 pm on a Thursday evening in early April, it's still 68 degree outside and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. As Washington Capital fans stream past the National Portrait Gallery, twenty-one people are still walking through "Votes for Women" exhibit in Washington, D.C. "Votes For Women" exhibit National Portrait Gallery As…

The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers

MuseumsNovember 14, 2017348Views 0Likes 0Comments

"The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers" is a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. It's aim is to take a look at the way America has shown workers in art through history. As you go through the exhibit, you see workers in many mediums including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and even video. Child laborers,…