Events

Irish immigrants were crucial in building the railroad that put Burke on the map.  Learn the background of Irish immigration and the immigrant processing center at Castle Garden, Manhattan.

WWII veteran Romuald Lipinski shares more of his story: after exile in Siberia and limbo in Central Asia, he successfully reached and joined the Polish Army to fight alongside Allied forces in Italy.

Archaeologist Patrick O’Neill speaks on the history of these spans connecting Virginia and Washington.  Today’s bridges are only the latest versions of various structures dating almost to the capital’s founding.

Mary Lipsey discusses how the Civil War’s staggering death toll prompted the creation of the National Cemeteries, as well as other cemeteries recognizing those killed on both sides.

Learn a bit of the science of gold, our 79th element, and hear about the regional history of this metal, including mining operations and some tales of lost treasure.

For the BHS’s Annual Meeting, we’ll show a documentary on the history of Burke’s Lee Chapel, with an introduction by Jon Vrana on the local history of Methodist circuit riders.

Sara Collini, a Ph.D. candidate in history at GMU, shares her research on enslaved women’s role as midwives in Fairfax County and the Chesapeake from 1750 to 1820.

In the interest of public health, our general meeting on March 29 is canceled. We hope to have the scheduled speaker back at a later point.

In the interest of public health, the talk previously planned for this date is canceled.