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SUMMARY:Reading the Declaration of Independence and Making Revolutionary Protest Signs
DESCRIPTION:“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” help read the Declaration of Independence out loud for all to hear at one of the only structures in the county that is still in existence to hear the document read aloud in 1776: the Ball-Sellers House (c.1750). Lend your voice and/or that of your family to read the words that helped start this nation’s “great experiment” in democracy. If you’d like to read a portion of the “Declaration\,” please email info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org and let us know! \nYou can also make protest signs that colonial Virginians could have used as they protested the king’s actions. We’ll have the materials for posters and signs and information about what the colonists were complaining about–and they had a LOT of complaints! Join us for this historic way to celebrate this important date. \nReading the Declaration of Independence starts at 1:00 pm. Making protests signs starts at 1:00 till 3:30.  Come for the history\, stay for the free guided tour of this 275-year-old house. \n  \n 
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/declaration-of-independence/
LOCATION:Ball-Sellers House\, 5620 3rd Street\, South\, Arlington VA 22204\, VA\, 22312\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Power of Place: Built by the People Themselves
DESCRIPTION:In her discussion of the “Power of Place: Suburbanization\, Segregation\, and Community Development in Arlington\,” Dr. Lindsey Bestebreurtje will help us explore segregation and racialized zoning and planning laws in Arlington to see how these policies impacted the County’s growth during the 20th Century. She’ll investigate the race-based policies of early boosters at the dawn of Arlington’s suburban growth\, and continue into discussions of restrictive covenants\, planning laws\, and how Arlington’s communities – both Black and white – grew together and in opposition. The majority of this research comes from Bestebreurtje’s book Built by the People Themselves: African American Community Development in Arlington from the Civil War through Civil Rights (USC Press\, 2024). \nDr. Lindsey Bestebreurtje is a historian of African American community development and the built environment in the 19th and 20th century American South. She holds a Ph.D. in History and a Masters in Museum Studies from George Mason University. For the last 15 years she has worked at various public history sites\, including the Historic American Landscape Survey\, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media\, and the National Park Service. Bestebreurtje has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2015. Dr. Bestebreurtje also serves on the Arlington Historical Society’s Advisory Board. \nThis event will be in-person and via Zoom. AHS will have the book for sale so attendees can buy it and have the author sign it. If you do not plan to attend in person\, you can buy the book on the AHS website: https://arlhist.org/product/book-built-by-the-people-themselves/ \nPREREGISTER FOR ZOOM ACCESS. You can attend this event on Zoom or in-person on the Marymount University Main Campus.  If you want to attend this event virtually\, please CLICK HERE to register. You can also cut and paste this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHop4BcGF7GbbnShuHNO4DGYiB1WyNQqL8zxITWK5Zp3lBfg/viewform into your own browser and complete it there. Please register by Wednesday\, July 9.  Zoom access information will be sent to you in an email on the morning of the event on Thursday\, July 10. \nDRIVING DIRECTIONS and FREE PARKING: Attendees planning to attend the event in-person should enter the Marymount University campus at the library gate on N. 26th Street. From Glebe Road going north\, take a right onto 26th Street. Pass the intersection with Yorktown Road and then enter the campus through the next gate on your left. The library is to your left as you enter the campus. Free garage parking is just past the library at the bottom of the small incline. (Handicapped parking is immediately to your right as you enter through the gate onto campus.) \n\nIf the university has lowered the garage gates\, push the button and let them know you’re here for an Arlington Historical Society event in the library. To leave\, push the button and they’ll raise the gate.\n\nThis event is one of the monthly series of free public programs sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society. This event is hosted courtesy of the Marymount University politics program’s American Heritage Initiative. For more information\, please email: info@arlingtonhistoricalsociety.org.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/built-by-the-people-themselves/
LOCATION:Reinsch Library Auditorium\, Marymount University\, 2807 North Glebe Road\, Arlington
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250713T140000
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SUMMARY:15-Minute History Spotlight: Camp Casey 
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, July 13 at 2 PM at the Arlington Historical Museum to uncover the powerful story of Camp Casey—a Civil War training ground for newly freed Black men who joined the US Army during the Civil War in the new US Colored Troop (USCT) Regiments. Michael Schaffner\, a reenactor with the USCT\, has spent the last several years hunting through military and government records to locate this uniquely Arlington site. \nLocated near today’s Pentagon\, Camp Casey was more than just a military post—it was a symbol of freedom\, hope\, and change during a pivotal moment in our nation’s history. Hear the story and what we know about it and then see the artifacts related to it–all in the Arlington Historical Museum. \nThis is one of a new series of brief talks at the Arlington Historical Museum on select Sundays each month. Come to the talk and learn history you won’t learn in school\, then stay to tour all the new exhibits at the re-envisioned museum. Come rediscover the hidden stories that helped shape Arlington.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/15-minute-history-spotlight-camp-casey/
LOCATION:Arlington Historical Museum\, 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road\, Arlington\, 22207\, United States
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SUMMARY:What's Buried in Your Dirt?
DESCRIPTION:Have you unearthed something in your garden or your lawn or somewhere else in Arlington and wonder what it is? Bring it to the Ball-Sellers House on July 26 from 2-4 PM and Tim Landis will tell you what it is. Landis began as a metal detector-ist as a kid and now he boasts an extensive collection of the thousands of things he’s found in and around Arlington and Northern Virginia. He’ll identify anything anyone brings to him that they found buried somewhere in Arlington. He’ll apply his decades of experience and knowledge to identify bits of metal\, ceramics\, pottery\, glassware of any type\, even plastics\, because he’s found it all first as a kid growing up in Arlington\, and now with permission from some builders. Each unearthed artifact helps everyone understand more about Arlington’s history. \nSo bring your “find” and your curiosity to learn more about what it is\, what it is not\, and its role in Arlington history. Then stay for a free guided tour of this c.1750 farmhouse.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/whats-buried-in-your-dirt/
LOCATION:Ball-Sellers House\, 5620 3rd Street\, South\, Arlington VA 22204\, VA\, 22312\, United States
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SUMMARY:15-Minute History Spotlight: The Family Tea House
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, July 27 when high school student and AHS volunteer\, Caroline Tso\, will discuss her new exhibit at the Arlington Historical Museum\, “The Family Tea House: Where Culture and Cuisine Met in Arlington.” This young historian from Woodson High School will talk about the restaurant\, the first Chinese restaurant in the county\, it’s place in history\, and what she found out about it. \nThis initially began as a project to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Ms. Tso was interested in the history of Asian Americans in Arlington and found advertisements for Chinese restaurants from the late 1940s and 1950s. She grew curious about how these restaurants started in Arlington and how they differed from\, yet were similar to\, the numerous Chinese restaurants we have today\, decades later. \nThis is one of a new series of brief talks at the Arlington Historical Museum on select Sundays each month. Come to the talk and learn history you won’t learn in school\, then stay to tour all the new exhibits at the re-envisioned museum.
URL:https://arlhist.org/event/15-minute-history-spotlight-the-family-tea-house/
LOCATION:Arlington Historical Museum\, 1805 South Arlington Ridge Road\, Arlington\, 22207\, United States
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