Learn about the Korean War Veterans Memorial, a symbol of recognition for the sacrifice of those veterans who faced fear and adversity with great personal courage while fighting in...
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Ranger-led Walking Tour:Murder and Mayhem on the Mall
Come join park rangers for a fun-filled Saturday night walking tour of the scary, spooky, and shocking stories of Washington, D.C. From hallowed grounds to hauntings, scandals to mysteries – all will be revealed! Meet at...
December 3, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:A New Kind of Citizen:” FDR and the TVA
The Tennessee Valley Authority was the most ambitious and wide-ranging of the New Deal programs, designed to create what FDR called "a new kind of citizen" out of more than two million people in the...
December 3, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:The Jeffersons and Peales: A Friendship Between Families
Charles Wilson Peale's family included 17 children; among them explorers, natural scientists, and portrait painters. Several Peales painted...
December 3, 2011 - 10:00pm - 10:30pm
December 3, 2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Free
Ranger-led Walking Tour:Tidal Basin Walking Tour
Join us for a two-hour walking tour to enjoy the winter beauty of Washington's Tidal Basin! We will learn a little bit of it’s history, and investigate the various memorials that call it "...
December 2, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Free
Theater Beyond Twitter
Arena Stage is proud to announce Theater Beyond Twitter: A Moderated Discussion Between Peter Marks and Howard Sherman in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center for American Theater, November 19 at 5:00 p.m. EST. Following one of...
November 19, 2011 - 5:00pm
$10
You, Nero
Special Pay What You Can Toga Party!
From November 25 - December 5, if you wear a toga when you come to see the show, you can pay whatever you’d like to pay. And, for the first time in the Mead Center, alcoholic beverages can be...
November 25, 2011 - January 1, 2012
$55-$85
Equivocation
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is proud to present Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of Bill Cain’s Equivocation in the first collaboration between Arena Stage and OSF. Directed by OSF’s Artistic...
November 18, 2011 - January 1, 2012
$40-$85
Ranger Talk:The Jeffersons and Peales: A Friendship Between Families
Charles Wilson Peale's family included 17 children; among them explorers, natural scientists, and portrait painters. Several Peales painted Thomas Jefferson and Lewis and Clark. Jefferson's grandson lived with the Peales. Would a...
November 9, 2011 - 10:00am - 10:30am
November 9, 2011 - 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Free
Ranger Talk:Vote! Support and Use Your Freedom
Join park staff in 1776 attire on Election Day 2011 to vote for a President using a quill pen. Come learn about voting in 1776 and how voting helps support the freedom we have today. Meet at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. For...
November 8, 2011 - 11:00am - 4:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:Lafayette: America’s Foreign Founding Father
The Marquis de Lafayette, Washington's most trusted General, was France's greatest contribution to victory in the American Revolution. This remarkable man stood high in the trust of such renown American founding fathers as Jefferson and...
November 8, 2011 - 6:00pm - 6:45pm
Free
Ranger Talk:The Air War Over Europe
The Air War Over Europe was one of the Allies first major efforts against the Axis in Europe. It was an effort that had the crews on the brink of sheer terror. Hear some of the horrendous stories of the missions, and learn about the men who...
November 7, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Free
Ranger-led Walking Tour:What the Tower Saw
The Old Post Office is a structure built in 1899 that has witnessed 112 years of protest and demonstration. Delve into past and present issues that drive citizens to march on Pennsylvania Ave. Meet at the Old Post Office...
November 6, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:Remembering Our Korean War Veterans
Learn about the Korean War Veterans Memorial; a symbol of recognition for the sacrifice of those veterans who faced fear and adversity with great personal courage while fighting in the...
November 5, 2011 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Free
Ranger Talk:The “Indian New Deal”
Celebrate American Indian Heritage Month! Join us after a 3 p.m. introduction to the New Deal section of the Second Term Room at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial to learn about the "Indian New Deal.” Meet at the...
November 5, 2011 - 3:30pm - 4:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:Robert Graham’s New Deal Room at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
If you are perplexed by Robert Graham's five columns and corresponding wall of 6’ x 6' reliefs (Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial's Second Term Room), it’s time to hear that they are a highlight of the memorial's...
November 5, 2011 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Free
Ranger-led Walking Tour:The Early Days of Pennsylvania Avenue
Stroll down Pennsylvania Avenue with a Park Ranger to examine the earliest visions of Washington, D.C., the wilderness from which it sprang, and the struggle to put the American Capital City on the Potomac. Meet at Freedom Plaza...
November 5, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Free
Ranger-led Bike Tour:People of the Civil War
Mary Surratt, Clara Barton, Lee, Grant,Sherman, Meade, Lincoln, and Hancock are names familiar to the American Civil War. How are they connected to the city of Washington between 1861-1865? How did they become...
November 5, 2011 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:B-29’s Over Japan
In November 1944 the American bomber called the B-29 began its bombing campaign against Japan. These were dangerous missions for the crews of these planes, and...
November 4, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Free
Ranger Talk:Leaders of Mass Movements
Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. were three leaders who made great strides in struggles for civil rights at times of great social crisis in America. Come to learn more about these leaders and their...
November 3, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Free
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