The Creative Process Podcast

LISTEN: Wilson House Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher's interview for "The Creative Process" Podcast. In addition to telling the many stories derived from the over 9,000 pieces in the collection of this National Historic Landmark and model historic and presidential site, Elizabeth discusses her goals for the house, including exploring the

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WHSV3 Woodrow Wilson Library

The Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation in Staunton, VA, is working with the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C., to tell the whole story of Wilson's legacy.

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Commemorating Wilson in an Age of Racial Reckoning with the Wilson Center

Woodrow Wilson House Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher joins representatives from the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton, Virginia, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Wilson Center to discuss ways to remember a figure like Woodrow Wilson with a complicated legacy.

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AAM Elizabeth Karcher

American Alliance of Museums  (AAM)  invited Wilson House Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher as a panelist on “Beyond Our Walls: History Outdoors When We Closed Ours,” where she discussed the Wilson House's Suffrage Outside! exhibit and conducted a short presentation for participants on the making of the exhibition. If you missed

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Holiday Shopping at Historic Sites: 2021 Gift Guide

As we near the bright and bustling holiday season, here are some highlights from the National Trust's Historic Sites' online shops for you to explore. From reproduced Bauhaus ornaments to motorized subway sets, repurposed keys from antique typewriters to copper-encased leaves and branches from the grounds of the Edith Farnsworth House, the

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Curator’s Choice Interview

Wilson House Executive Director speaks with Curator Choice's host Ayla Anderson about President Woodrow Wilson and the House. Curator's Choice is an interview-style podcast with each episode featuring a new museum and the history of two extraordinary artifacts/exhibits housed there.

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Election: 1916

Woodrow Wilson became the first Democratic president since Andrew Jackson to be elected to two consecutive terms of office when he defeated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes in the 1916 Presidential Election. The election focused on the War that was raging in Europe and America’s place in it and

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Mother's Day poster

Mother’s Day

MAY 9, 1914 President Wilson Declares National Mother's Day President Woodrow Wilson, on Saturday, May 9, 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day a national observance to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May, thereby making May 10, 1914 the first national Mother’s Day.  The observance

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League of Nations

“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”

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VOA TV Covers Suffrage Outside

Voice of America Television Covers Suffrage Outside! In addition to articles, interviews and virtual tours for the recent Past/Forward Preservation Conference, Suffrage Outside! received a visit from Voice of American TV who interviewed Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher in November of 2020. The program, in Russian, aired in 15 countries, across

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