The museum’s monthly lecture and film series will be featured towards the end of January. The 60-minute documentary film “Pearl Harbor: Into the Arizona” will be shown at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27. The battleship USS Arizona was sunk during the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, at a cost of 1,177 lives.... View Article
To celebrate the life and achievements of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, the Greenbrier Historical Society will be hosting a weekend of community activities aimed at recognizing her life and legacy and inspiring the next generation of scientists and thinkers. These events will take place at the Schoolhouse Hotel in White Sulphur Springs the weekend of... View Article
A documentary film by Susan Rose and Manuel Saralegui This is the story of two Lipan Apache children who were captured along the Texas-Mexican border in 1877 by the 4th U.S. Cavalry after massacring almost everyone in their village. Kasetta and her brother, Jack, lived with a military family before being sent to the Carlisle... View Article
“King of Crimes” refers to the crime of treason for which Aaron Burr was tried in John Marshall’s court just three years after the deadly Hamilton duel. President Thomas Jefferson had Burr charged with treason for plotting to carve out a kingdom for himself from parts of Louisiana and Mexico. The case also involved the... View Article
On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded the Normandy beaches to liberate Europe from the Nazis. More than 5,000 ships with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly 200,000 men crossed the English Channel. Hundreds of ships fell victim to German shellfire, mines, and torpedoes and are being documented by dive teams, submersibles, and... View Article
IMPOSSIBLE TOWN follows the story of former State Health Officer Dr. Ayne Amjad who isthrust to the helm of a decades-long struggle to aid a southern West Virginia town beset bycancer-causing chemicals. The film explores the dual nature of trauma, showing how loss canboth motivate people toward ambitious goals and simultaneously trap them in its... View Article
On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded the Normandy beaches to liberate Europe from the Nazis. More than 5,000 ships with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly 200,000 men crossed the English Channel. Hundreds of ships fell victim to German shellfire, mines, and torpedoes and are being documented by dive teams, submersibles, and... View Article
This program looks at Thanksgiving through Native American eyes. In March of 1621, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag tribe in New England, negotiated a diplomatic alliance with a scraggly band of English settlers for the benefit of his people. Half a century later, a brutal war flared up.
Produced in 2005 by the WGBH Educational Foundation, part of the PBS American Experience Series. Told through the narratives of escaped slaves and their descendants, this is the story of the secret network of deeply committed individuals who helped escaped slaves find their way to freedom.
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