Alexandria, Virginia, a port city with deep roots in pre-Revolutionary America, was a heavily divided and conflicted city during the Civil War, and the memories of the war still resonate today. Journalist Chuck Raasch guides you on a tour that touches on those memories.

Alexandria, Virginia, a port city with deep roots in pre-Revolutionary America, was a heavily divided and conflicted city during the Civil War, and the memories of the war still resonate today. Journalist Chuck Raasch guides you on a tour that touches on those memories.

Alexandria, Virginia, a port city with deep roots in pre-Revolutionary America, was a heavily divided and conflicted city during the Civil War, and the memories of the war still resonate today. Journalist Chuck Raasch guides you on a tour that touches on those memories.

Home to over a million objects from around the globe, Philadelphia’s Penn Museum bridges the study of archaeology and anthropology. Spend the day immersed in ancient art and culture with art historian Renee Gondek and see Sumerian cuneiform tablets, Buddhist sculptures, Native American regalia, and the monumental Sphinx of Ramses II, plus the Greek gallery, which represents the history and culture of Greece from 3000 to 31 B.C.E. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)

Historians talk about “reading” a monument as a way to learn more about the relationship between the people who erect it and the historical event it pays tribute to. War memorials can be especially fascinating places to practice these thinking skills, and there is no better place in the United States to think about the memory of conflict than on the National Mall. Historian Christopher Hamner leads a day dedicated to four memorials on the Mall: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, World War II Memorial, and Ulysses S. Grant Memorial.