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Available Lectures
Please contact Madeline to schedule an in-person or livestream lecture for your group or organization.
Early American History
American Nationalism & the War of 1812
American Almshouse: Combatting Poverty in Early America
A City in Uniform: A Guide to Civil War Washington
Indivisible: The Legacy of America's Civil War
20th Century History
1910s America: A Most Progressive Decade
Wilson's War: America Enters World War I
The German-American Experience in World War I
Eugenics & American Society
The Dust Bowl: Our Forgotten Man-Made Disaster
Prison History
An Experiment in Justice: Life Inside Eastern State Penitentiary
Investigating Alexandria's Civil War Prisons: Confinement & Justice During Union Occupation
A History of the American Workhouse
Hospital History
The Rise & Fall of the Orphan Asylum
An Unfinished War: Soldiers' Homes in the United States
Grosvenor Branch Hospital: Confiscation of the Lee-Fendall House
Psychiatric History
The Kirkbride Plan: A Survey of America's Asylums
Shell-Shocked Nation: Psychiatry & World War I
St. Elizabeths Asylum: Civil War Care at the Government Hospital for the Insane
Hiawatha Asylum & "Insane Indians": Psychiatric Care for Native Americans
Cemetery & Burials
Burying the War Dead: America's National Cemetery System
Wartime Washington Burials: Alexandria & Arlington National Cemeteries
Lee Family History
The Lee-Fendall House: Three Centuries of American History
Philip Fendall II: Antislavery in Antebellum Washington
Doctor of Mysterious Deeds: The Curious Case of Robert Fleming
Revolutionary Fendalls: Tracing Their Patriotic Beginnings
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