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Posted by: Danna Bell
This Spring I gave a tour of our current Jacob Riis: Revealing How the Other Half Lives exhibit to a group of history honor students from Fairfax. They were so engaged. Afterward, they wrote me a note to let me know they’d gone back to their school “and voted this the best field trip ever!”
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
I write and edit materials for publication; serve as a blogger; establish and maintain relationships with local and national organizations; coordinate community outreach activities and programming to encourage veterans to tell their stories and to inspire interviewers to record them; and brief Congressional staffers on ways in which they may coordinate Veterans History Project activities within their districts and states.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Veterans and Military History
Posted by: Danna Bell
As the Civil War and Reconstruction specialist in the Manuscript Division, my primary responsibilities are helping to expand our collections and make them accessible to the public.
Posted in: Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Interviews with Experts