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News and Announcements
Cokie Roberts speaks at WWPL
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library was honored to have author and news analyst Cokie Roberts deliver an address on Thursday, May 8th, at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center in Staunton to kick off the WWPL’s Board of Trustees Retreat and Annual Meeting. Read more>
White House Historian Dr. William Seale to speak at WWPL
White House Historian Dr. William Seale will be the keynote speaker at its Third Annual Wilson/Woodrow/Bolling/Axson First Families Reunion on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM. Dr. Seale’s talk, “The Wilsons of the White House” is free and open to the public.
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Art in the Garden
Renowned French painter Thierry Marquis unveiled his recently-completed painting of Woodrow Wilson and demonstrated his painting techniques in the Presidential Library’s historic gardens on Saturday, April 26. Read more>
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WWPL secures Teaching American History
The U.S. Secretary of Education recently announced that the WWPL has been awarded a Teaching American History grant of $455,155 by the U.S. Department of Education. The award is listed through the Waynesboro Public Schools and will fund a three-year program providing history education seminars for high school teachers on the topic of comparative history. Read more>
Journey Into History Camp 2008
This Summer student campers will have the opportunity to relive memories of the past through Celebrations and Games experienced in the everyday life of Victorian children.
Camp dates: June 17-19, 2008.
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2008 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Each year the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History sponsors a series of summer professional development seminars for elementary, middle, and high school teachers of history. This year, the Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library will feature Patricia O'Toole of Columbia University on "Woodrow Wilson and the War Years".