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Program/Event

The Cold War | Teacher Seminars In Person

The Cold War: US Civilian and Military Intelligence and Global Affairs from 1941 to 2011 is a weeklong PD event for up to 40 K–12 teachers at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, VA. Application Deadline : March 7, 2025 Program Dates...

Program/Event

Traveling Exhibitions | World War II: Voices of Service

> World War II: Voices of Service explores major events of the war through the photographs, letters, and oral histories of everyday Americans. From the attack on Pearl Harbor through the GI Bill, this traveling exhibition...

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Photograph album

World War II photograph album

GLC10093

Classroom Resources

Historical Context: Black Soldiers in the Civil War

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

By early 1863, voluntary enlistments in the Union army had fallen so sharply that the federal government instituted an unpopular military draft and decided to enroll Black as well as White troops. Indeed, it seems likely that it was...

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Autograph document signed

circa 4 November 1918

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

[Speech concerning the end of World War I]

Delivered while Coolidge was a Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, the speech is written in pencil and signed at the top of the first page. Notes indicate that the speech was delivered on November 4 at Faneuil Hall, just before the election and...

GLC05314