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AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL MUSEUM/FACEBOOK | Muriel Bowser, the mayor of the District of Columbia, attended a groundbreaking ceremony, October 17, as the African American Civil War Museum expanded into a new space.

African American Civil War Memorial Museum To Be Expanded

By Ishaan Rai October 25, 2019

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser helped break ground on the future African American Civil War Memorial Museum housed at the Grimke School in an Oct. 17 ceremony.  The museum tells the stories...

Remembering the Civil War

Remembering the Civil War

By Richard Pedersen September 4, 2015

While the 150th anniversary of General Robert Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse passed this April with little fanfare, the United States has been repeatedly and brutally reminded that our past...

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An unidentified group of Civil War soldiers look across the Potomac River to the simple landscape of Georgetown’s campus.

Built by Slaves and Jesuits

By Suzanne Monyak January 30, 2015

Established in 1789, Georgetown University is an institution 226 years in the making. From its more historic buildings like Healy Hall and Old North to its newer additions like the Rafik B. Hariri...

Experts Detail Efforts to Save Syrian Children

By Madeleine Thornburn February 21, 2014

Medical experts with firsthand experience treating civilians in Syrian refugee camps discussed the Syrian government’s denial of basic relief aid to those trapped in a country that has been engulfed...

Social Battles in the Civil War

By Kaley Beins November 22, 2013

The murmur of voices echoes softly off the marble walls as people gather in the East Garden Court of the National Gallery of Art. Despite the tangles of plants that erupt from every corner of the room...

War on the Potomac

By Peter Brigham November 15, 2012

"For Georgetown itself, the war had proven to be the most serious threat to its survival as an institution.” So wrote history professor emeritus Fr. R. Emmett Curran, S.J., of the American Civil...

Event Highlights Veteran Experiences Across Two Centuries

By Lily Westergaard November 15, 2012

Panelists compared modern veterans to their counterparts from the Civil War at a discussion and film screening sponsored by the Georgetown University Student Veterans Association and the Masters of Science...

Massacre Felt 23 Years Later

By Matthew Ippel November 15, 2012

On a bright Saturday morning, I sat in the Rose Garden above Centro Monseñor Romero at the Jesuit Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador. I looked at the roses, imagining what took place that dreadful...

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